JavaScript interface for commissioning

[dakhnod]

I am creating a nodeJS application that is supposed to help with device commissioning.
From that application, I want to be able to interface with the device commissioning process.

Unfortunately, the commissioning-cli does not provide any realistic way of interfacing with JavaScript code.

The SWIG interface file doesn't work, since it has a strong dependency on Java. Also, SWIG cannot handle std::shared_ptr.

Some solutions I have in mind are:

• update the SWIG process to work for JS
• open up the coap protocol to allow for alternative clients
• provide an API for a commissioning-daemon (REST, ...)

Is there any clever Idea I am missing?

[wgtdkp]

The CLI isn't a stable API, so it may not be a good idea to depend on that if you are targeting productions.

I think it's simpler and less code to use the library directly rather than building a client-server mode with a CLI daemon. I would suggest

1. first try https://www.swig.org/Doc4.2/SWIGDocumentation.html#Javascript to see if it can fulfill your requirements
2. If there are problems with SWIG and can't be workaround, try writing a node.js addon for the commissioner? https://nodejs.org/api/addons.html

Also, SWIG cannot handle std::shared_ptr

Do you mean SWIG_javascript doesn't support translating std::shared_ptr? I think it's used in only two places in commissioner.hpp and you can ignore those methods and create replacements with node.js addon?