ooni-probe-cli/pkg/oonimkall/README.md
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refactor: start building an Android package (#205)
* refactor: start building an Android package

Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1335.

This seems also a good moment to move some packages out of the
engine, e.g., oonimkall. This package, for example, is a consumer
of the engine, so it makes sense it's not _inside_ it.

* fix: committed some stuff I didn't need to commit

* fix: oonimkall needs to be public to build

The side effect is that we will probably need to bump the major
version number every time we change one of these APIs.

(We can also of course choose to violate the basic guidelines of Go
software, but I believe this is bad form.)

I have no problem in bumping the major quite frequently and in
any case this monorepo solution is convinving me more than continuing
to keep a split between engine and cli. The need to embed assets to
make the probe more reliable trumps the negative effects of having to
~frequently bump major because we expose a public API.

* fix: let's not forget about libooniffi

Honestly, I don't know what to do with this library. I added it
to provide a drop in replacement for MK but I have no idea whether
it's used and useful. I would not feel comfortable exposing it,
unlike oonimkall, since we're not using it.

It may be that the right thing to do here is just to delete the
package and reduce the amount of code we're maintaining?

* woops, we're still missing the publish android script

* fix(publish-android.bash): add proper API key

* ouch fix another place where the name changed
2021-02-03 10:51:14 +01:00

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# Package github.com/ooni/probe-cli/pkg/oonimkall
Package oonimkall implements APIs used by OONI mobile apps. We
expose these APIs to mobile apps using gomobile.
We expose two APIs: the task API, which is derived from the
API originally exposed by Measurement Kit, and the session API,
which is a Go API that mobile apps can use via `gomobile`.
This package is named oonimkall because it contains a partial
reimplementation of the mkall API implemented by Measurement Kit
in, e.g., [mkall-ios](https://github.com/measurement-kit/mkall-ios).
The basic tenet of the task API is that you define an experiment
task you wanna run using a JSON, then you start a task for it, and
you receive events as serialized JSONs. In addition to this
functionality, we also include extra APIs used by OONI mobile.
The basic tenet of the session API is that you create an instance
of `Session` and use it to perform the operations you need.