[Kea-users] Hook Development - Rust

[Eric Graham]

Hi Darren,

Thanks for the link! I actually have already done so, but for a few reasons (I believe it is slower than a hook, and it's limited<https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/-/issues/2622>) I would prefer to write a "native" one.

I sure wish it would have been implemented differently<https://github.com/mozilla/application-services/issues/612>, as something like gRPC + protobuf!


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From: Darren Ankney <darren.ankney at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2022 7:34 PM
To: kea-users at lists.isc.org <kea-users at lists.isc.org>
Subject: Re: [Kea-users] Hook Development - Rust

If nothing else, perhaps you could make use of the run_script hook:
https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-2.2.0/arm/hooks.html#run-script-run-script-support-for-external-hook-scripts
You could probably write the "script" in whatever language you want,
including rust, or at least that's the way I interpret it.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 2:16 PM Eric Graham <eric.graham at vantagepnt.com> wrote:
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> Hello! First time using this / any mailing list, so critiques welcome.
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> I am looking into the possibility of writing a Rust hook. I understand that using C++ is likely the simplest alternative, but Rust is attractive for its memory safety and speed. I have not had luck finding any Kea hook in Rust to use as a starting point. The C FFI is a complicating factor. In fact, I have not had luck getting a very basic PoC to register with Kea, just implementing version(). Does anyone know of a hook even partially implemented in Rust, or have interest in doing so?
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> Thank you,
> Eric
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