Zenoh plugins
The zenoh router (zenohd
executable) supports the loading of plugins at start-up.
A zenoh plugin is a library that can be loaded by the zenoh router at start-up. It shares a runtime with it, allowing the plugin to use the regular zenoh and/or zenoh-ne APIs with the same peer ID.
By default the zenoh router will automatically search and load plugins library files with such names:
- on Unix/Linux:
libzplugin_*.so
- on MacOS:
libzplugin_*.dylib
- on Windows:
zplugin_*.dll
The list of paths in which the zenoh router will search for plugins can be configured via the --plugin-search-dir
option (that can be repeated to specify several directories). The default list can be seen in using the --help
option.
This automatic search and load of plugins can be desactivated using the --plugin-nolookup
option.
And some plugins library files to load anyway can be specified using the --plugin
option (repeatable). In such case, the complete path of the library file must be specified, and its filename is free.
Zenoh already provides the following plugins:
- the REST plugin: providing the zenoh REST API
- the Storages plugin: providing management of storages and backends