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Code Overview

Code Overview

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Last updated: Nov 21, 2012Version comment

The directory structure is currently:

     <oftest>
         `
         |-- oft
         |-- doc
         |-- src
         |   `-- python
         |       `-- oftest
         |-- tests
         |   `-- test cases
         `-- tools
             |-- munger
             `-- pylibopenflow

The tools directory is what processes the OpenFlow header files to produce Python classes representing OpenFlow messages. The results are placed in src/python/oftest and currently include:

message.py

The main API providing OF message classes

error.py

Subclasses for error messages

action.py

Subclasses for action specification

cstruct.py

Direct representation of C structures in Python

class_maps.py

Addition info about C structures

In addition, the following Python files are present in src/python/oftest:

controller.py

The controller representation

dataplane.py

The dataplane representation

action_list.py

Action list class

netutils.py

e.g., set promisc on sockets

ofutils.py

Utilities related to OpenFlow messages

oft_assert.py

Test framework level assertion

testutils.py

Test utilities

Tests are run from the tests directory. The file oft is the top level entry point for tests. Try ./oft --help for some more.