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P4Tools

P4Tools is a collection of tools that make testing P4 targets and programs a little easier. So far the platform supports the following tools and projects:

  • P4Testgen: An input-output test case generator for P4.

  • P4Smith: A random P4 program generator in the spirit of Csmith.

Directory Structure

p4tools
 ├─ cmake            ── common P4Tools CMake modules.
 ├─ common           ── common code for the various P4Tools modules.
 │  ├─ compiler      ── transformation passes for P4 code.
 │  ├─ control_plane ── code concerning P4Tool's control plane semantics.
 │  ├─ core          ── definitions for core parts of the P4Tools modules.
 │  └─ lib           ── helper functions and utilities for P4Tools modules.  
 └─  modules         ── P4Tools extensions.
    ├─ smith       ── P4Smith: a random P4 program generator.
    └─ testgen       ── P4Testgen: a test-case generator for P4 programs.

Building

Please see the general installation instructions here. P4Tools can be built using the following CMAKE configuration in the P4C repository.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON -DENABLE_TEST_TOOLS=ON
make

Dependencies

  • z3 SMT solver to compute path constraints.
    • Important: We currently only support Z3 versions 4.8.14 to 4.12.0.

These dependencies are automatically installed via CMakelist's FetchContent module.

Development Style

Currently, each C++ source directory has a few subdirectories, including:

  • core, containing the core functionality of the submodule; and
  • lib, containing supporting data structures.

The distinction between the two can be fuzzy. Here are some guiding principles for where to find/put what:

  • If it depends on anything in core, it belongs in core.
  • If it's something that resembles a general-purpose data structure (e.g., an environment or a symbol table), it's probably in lib.

C++ Coding style

P4Tools in general follows the P4C coding style. Some deviations from the Style Guide are highlighted below.

  • Comments are important. The Style Guide's section on comments is required reading.
    • Classes, methods, and fields are documented with triple-slash Doxygen-style comments: 
      /// An example class demonstrating a documentation comment.
class C {};
    • We do not use copyright headers or license boilerplate in our source files. Where needed, these will be auto-generated during release packaging.
  • Generally prefer a single class declaration per .h file, unless providing a library of related classes. Multiple classes may be declared in a .cpp file.