src: add interface to parse from file

This patch adds a new API to parse rule-set expressed in XML/JSON from
a file. A new enum nft_parse_input type is added for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/chain.c b/src/chain.c
index 8f40ede..18a52da 100644
--- a/src/chain.c
+++ b/src/chain.c
@@ -761,6 +761,13 @@ int nft_chain_parse(struct nft_chain *c, enum nft_parse_type type,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(nft_chain_parse);
 
+int nft_chain_parse_file(struct nft_chain *c, enum nft_parse_type type,
+			 FILE *fp, struct nft_parse_err *err)
+{
+	return nft_chain_do_parse(c, type, fp, err, NFT_PARSE_FILE);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nft_chain_parse_file);
+
 static int nft_chain_snprintf_json(char *buf, size_t size, struct nft_chain *c)
 {
 	int ret, len = size, offset = 0;