NDN-CPP: A Named Data Networking client library for C++ and C

NDN-CPP is a new implementation of a Named Data Networking client library written in C++ and C. It is wire format compatible with the NDN-TLV encoding.

NDN-CPP conforms to the NDN Common Client Libraries API and your application should follow this public API: http://named-data.net/doc/ndn-ccl-api/ . Further classes and methods are in the Doxygen-generated documentation.

See the file https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cpp/blob/master/INSTALL.md "INSTALL.md" for build and install instructions.

If you are new to the NDN community of software generally, read the https://github.com/named-data/NFD/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md "Contributor's Guide". Proposed code contributions should use a GitHub pull request.

Please submit any bugs or issues to the NDN-CPP issue tracker: http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/ndn-cpp/issues

The library currently requires a remote NDN daemon, and has been tested with the NFD forwarder: https://github.com/named-data/NFD

Currently, the library has two APIs for developers:

1. The C++ API which follows the NDN Common Client Library API also used by ndn-js (JavaScript)
 and PyNDN (Python). See http://named-data.net/doc/ndn-ccl-api .

2. A core C library implementing lower-level encoding and communication.  Applications should normally
 use the C++ API, but core C code will also function on embedded devices and other environments
 which don't have C++ support.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version, with the additional exemption that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. A copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License is in the file COPYING.