Building a Rust Crate

[schroe-ja]

I found OpenWPM and want to use it for our project. Is it possible to implement a Rust crate? Or an API that is not bound on a specific programming language?

[vringar]

Hey @EvilWatermelon,

unfortunately OpenWPM relies heavily on Python as we expose most of our functionality by allowing users to extend the BaseCommand class and then adding their class to the CommandSequence.

If you want to use OpenWPM from Rust, please have a look at Py03, but please keep in mind that there might be some weirdness related to the fact that OpenWPM is a multi-process application, so some Python code would likely be executed outside of the the Rust wrapper.

[schroe-ja]

@vringar ok, thanks for your fast answer. I think using mqtt should be easier while using OpenWPM as an external service.