The SWitch State Service (SWSS) common library provides libraries for database communications, netlink wrappers, and other functions needed by SWSS.

Checkout the source:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Azure/sonic-swss-common

Install build dependencies:

sudo apt-get install make libtool m4 autoconf dh-exec debhelper cmake pkg-config \
                     libhiredis-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev libnl-route-3-dev swig3.0 \
                     libpython2.7-dev libgtest-dev

You can compile and install from source using:

./autogen.sh
./configure
make && sudo make install

You can also build a debian package using:

./autogen.sh
./configure
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b

1. Install Google Test DEB package.

$ sudo apt-get install cmake libgtest-dev
$ cd /usr/src/gtest && sudo cmake . && sudo make

2. Rebuild with Google Test

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --enable-debug 'CXXFLAGS=-O0 -g'
$ make clean
$ GCC_COLORS=1 make

3. Start redis server if not yet:

sudo sed -i 's/notify-keyspace-events ""/notify-keyspace-events AKE/' /etc/redis/redis.conf
sudo service redis-server start

4. Run unit test:

tests/tests

For general questions, setup help, or troubleshooting:

• sonicproject on Google Groups

For bug reports or feature requests, please open an Issue.

See the contributors guide for information about how to contribute.

We're following basic GitHub Flow. If you have no idea what we're talking about, check out GitHub's official guide. Note that merge is only performed by the repository maintainer.

Guide for performing commits:

• Isolate each commit to one component/bugfix/issue/feature
• Use a standard commit message format:

[component/folder touched]: Description intent of your changes

[List of changes]

Signed-off-by: Your Name your@email.com

For example:

swss-common: Stabilize the ConsumerTable

* Fixing autoreconf
* Fixing unit-tests by adding checkers and initialize the DB before start
* Adding the ability to select from multiple channels
* Health-Monitor - The idea of the patch is that if something went wrong with the notification channel,
  we will have the option to know about it (Query the LLEN table length).

  Signed-off-by: user@dev.null

• Each developer should fork this repository and add the team as a Contributor
• Push your changes to your private fork and do "pull-request" to this repository
• Use a pull request to do code review
• Use issues to keep track of what is going on