Suricata

Also, A plugin and Suricata should at runtime check their compile (C ifdef, rust cfg) options : like

#ifdef HAVE_MAGIC
    char *magic;
#endif

in File structure

Philippe Antoine wrote in #note-8:

Also, A plugin and Suricata should at runtime check their compile (C ifdef, rust cfg) options : like
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in File structure

Ideally, we'd get rid of any of these for 9. I wonder if moving any compile-time options like this to the end of the structure would help. Of course, no plugin/lib could use them without explicit checking.

What do you think about naming? "core" doesn't work, as it does not contain the core of Suricata. I do want to get some binding code out of one of my plugins, and this crate is where it will go:

- suricata-ffi: Somewhat makes sense as it's Rust code for working with the Rust API via C interfaces
- suricata-api

But it's also kind of an odd API crate. As it's wrapping/bridging/adapting as its Rust bindings to C bindings to Rust: suricata-rcr? ;)

suricata-basics ?

Philippe Antoine wrote in #note-11:

suricata-basics ?

That would imply it contains Suricata's basic functionality, but it doesn't. It contains an interface to Suricata functionality, much of which is not "basic" at all.

How much of this stuff we need from plugins could ripple into the -sys crate if we bindgen'd it to C, then cbindgen'd it back to Rust? Did you try that before?

if we bindgen'd it to C, then cbindgen'd it back to Rust? Did you try that before?

Like I did for jsonbuilder ?

I think you were against filling Suricata-sys with other such stuff...

Philippe Antoine wrote in #note-14:

if we bindgen'd it to C, then cbindgen'd it back to Rust? Did you try that before?

Like I did for jsonbuilder ?

I think you were against filling Suricata-sys with other such stuff...

I was, somewhat.. But I think its making sense.

`-sys` for all C bindings, whether they be to Rust or C code. I wasn't liking the idea of putting C bindings to Rust code there before, but I'm seeing the light.

Then `-ffi` style crate with some nicer wrappers around those raw bindings? Maybe even name it `-wrapper`? Then many plugins would need only require `suricata-sys` and `suricata-wrapper` right?