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/rule.c b/src/rule.c
index 081686c..9b4b01f 100644
--- a/src/rule.c
+++ b/src/rule.c
@@ -678,6 +678,13 @@ int nft_rule_parse(struct nft_rule *r, enum nft_parse_type type,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(nft_rule_parse);
 
+int nft_rule_parse_file(struct nft_rule *r, enum nft_parse_type type,
+			FILE *fp, struct nft_parse_err *err)
+{
+	return nft_rule_do_parse(r, type, fp, err, NFT_PARSE_FILE);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nft_rule_parse_file);
+
 static int nft_rule_snprintf_json(char *buf, size_t size, struct nft_rule *r,
 					 uint32_t type, uint32_t flags)
 {