mininetRest: A REST API for mininet

mininetRest 0.0.1

Dependencies

• Bottle Web framework: sudo pip install bottle
• mininet: see http://mininet.org/download/

How to use mininetRest?

MininetRest is a Bottle Web Application that wraps a Mininet Object and allows to interact with Mininet through a REST API.

File demo.py is an example of how to launch mininetRest. MininetRest accepts a Mininet Object. 'demo.py' instantiates a singleSwitch with 2 hosts.

In order to test the launched webapp, we provide a postman collection (https://www.getpostman.com/) that illustrate the available requests. The collection is the file mininet-api.json.postman_collection

What can we do with the REST API?

At the moment the REST API allows:

• get a list of the mininet nodes.
• get a list of the mininet hosts.
• get a list of the mininet switches.
• get a list of the mininet links.
• get the interfaces of a node.
• set an interface of a node up or down.
• set the bandwidth and delay of an interface of a node.
• execute a command in a node.

How is it implemented?

MininetRest class at file mininet_rest.py is the core of mininetRest. It is a derived class of the Bottle class (http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/index.html)

Authoring

• Carlos Giraldo carlitosgiraldo@gmail.com AtlantTIC Research Center, University of Vigo, Spain http://atlanttic.uvigo.es/en/