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null — Test Sink / Source

null — Test Sink / Source

Section titled “null — Test Sink / Source”

The workhorse of testing: null implements the full plugin ABI cheaply, so you can exercise any host — measure throughput, validate wiring — without real hardware or a network. As a sink it discards frames; as a source it generates synthetic ones.

  • Library: libplugin-null.so · Implementation: Rust

Configuration

Section titled “Configuration”

Minimal — typically just a direction:

{ "direction": "tx" }

(tx = source, rx = sink.) When used as input-processor’s output sink it can also publish stats over MQTT (mqtt_broker, mqtt_topic_prefix, mqtt_client_id, frame_rate) — see input-processor.

Notes

Section titled “Notes”

Implements the full ABI cheaply, which makes it the reference for exercising a host with no real hardware or network attached — it backs the throughput and CPU benchmarks.