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.. _c_api:
C API Documentation
===================
The C API is very simple and consist of these two basic parts:
- :ref:`lifecycle_api`
- :ref:`modem_commands`
The Typical application workflow is to:
- Create a DCE instance (using :cpp:func:`esp_modem_new`)
- Call specific functions to issue AT commands (:ref:`modem_commands`)
- Switch to the data mode (using :cpp:func:`esp_modem_set_mode`)
- Perform desired network operations (using standard networking API, unrelated to ESP-MODEM)
- Optionally switch back to command mode (again :cpp:func:`esp_modem_set_mode`)
- Destroy the DCE handle (sing :cpp:func:`esp_modem_destroy`)
Note the configuration structures for DTE and DCE, needed for creating the DCE instance, is documented in :ref:`api_config`
.. _lifecycle_api:
Lifecycle API
-------------
These functions are used to create, destroy and set modem working mode.
- :cpp:func:`esp_modem_new`
- :cpp:func:`esp_modem_destroy`
- :cpp:func:`esp_modem_set_mode`
.. doxygengroup:: ESP_MODEM_C_API
.. _modem_commands:
Modem commands
--------------
These functions are the actual commands to communicate with the modem using AT command interface.
Note that the functions which implement AT commands returning textual values use plain ``char *``
pointer as the return value. The API expects the output data to point to user allocated space of at least
``ESP_MODEM_C_API_STR_MAX`` (64 by default) bytes, it also truncates the output data to this size.
.. doxygenfile:: esp_modem_api_commands.h
.. _api_config:
Configuration structures
------------------------
.. doxygengroup:: ESP_MODEM_CONFIG
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