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mikrotik-java
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A Java client implementation for the Mikrotik RouterOS API.
This project provides a Java client to manipulate Mikrotik routers using the remote API. Simple things must be easy to do, and complex things must be possible.
*This code is currently pre-release, so in order to use it you will have to clone it locally and compile it yourself. Any part,
including public interfaces, can change at any time, until I release version 1.0.*
Examples
========
Here is a simple example: Connect to a router and reboot it.
```java
ApiConnection con = ApiConnection.connect("10.0.1.1"); // connect to router
con.login("admin","password"); // log in to router
con.execute("/system/reboot"); // execute a command
con.disconnect(); // disconnect from router
```
A simple example that returns a result: Print all interfaces.
```java
List<Result> rs = con.execute("/interface/print");
for (Result r : rs) {
System.out.println(r);
}
```
The same query, but with the results filtered: Print all interfaces of type 'vlan'.
```java
List<Result> rs = con.execute("/interface/print where type=vlan");
```
The same query, but we only want certain result fields names Print all interfaces of type 'vlan' and return their name.
```java
List<Result> rs = con.execute("/interface/print where type=vlan return name");
```
We can run asynchrynous commands:
This example shows how to run '/interface wireless monitor' and have the result sent to a listener object, which prints it
```java
Command cmd = con.execute("/interface/wireless/monitor .id=wlan1 return signal-to-noise",
new ResultListener() {
public void receive(Result result) {
System.out.println(result);
}
}
);
```
The above command will run and send results asynchrynously as they become available, until it is canceled. The command (returned in the Command
object above) is cancelled like this:
```java
con.cancel(cmd);
```
More examples will be added shortly.
TODO
====
For 1.0:
[ ] More examples
[ ] More formal documentation
[ ] Push Javadoc to GitHub
[ ] Slight changes to the API still coming
[ ] Look into possible race condition when running short lived commands synchronously.
Later:
[ ] SSL support.
References
==========
The RouterOS API is documented here: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:API
Licence
=======
mikrotik-java is released under the Apache 2.0 license. See http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0