We are planning to use Mender for OTA updates in our product (it worked out-of-the-box with our Yocto-Sumo based board btw) and to integrate it nicely with our business logic, we want to use it in standalone mode and trigger updates via our daemon running in C++.
So I am wondering, is there a way to use the Mender client via native C++ calls? Is there some kind of API that is exposed so we are not forced to do system calls and parse their output somehow (since we will probably need to know the progress)?
My apologies if there was something obvious in the documentation somewhere, but a quick look has not revealed anything yet. Thanks!
We are planning to use Mender for OTA updates in our product (it worked out-of-the-box with our Yocto-Sumo based board btw) and to integrate it nicely with our business logic, we want to use it in standalone mode and trigger updates via our daemon running in C++.
Glad it has worked out so far.
So I am wondering, is there a way to use the Mender client via native C++ calls? Is there some kind of API that is exposed so we are not forced to do system calls and parse their output somehow (since we will probably need to know the progress)?
We do not provide an API on the client side, and the closest you can get is utilizing state-scripts, this way you can inform your application in which state the Mender client is in.
Thanks for the quick response. Coincidentally, I was just reading the particular topic which pretty much answered my question. Good to know and thanks for the work you’re doing!