6. Software Development Kit

You can extend the out-of-the-box behavior of Recording Service through its Software Development Kit (SDK). The SDK provides a set of public interfaces that allow you to control Recording Service execution as well as extend its capabilities.

The SDK is divided into the following modules:

• RTI Recording Service Service API:
  This module offers a set of APIs that allow you to instantiate Recording Service instances in your application. This allows you to run Recording Service as a library.
• RTI Recording Service Storage API:
  Storage is a pluggable component that allows Recording Service to write and read data from custom storage. This module offers a set of pluggable APIs to develop custom StorageWriter and StorageReader, which you can use through shared libraries or through the Service API. By default, Recording Service is distributed with a builtin SQLite® storage plugin that is part of the service library.
• RTI Recording Service Transformation API:
  Transformations are data-oriented pluggable components that allow you to perform conversions of the representation and content of the data that goes through Recording Service. This module offers a set of pluggable APIs to develop a custom Transformations, which you can use through shared libraries or through the Service API.

Table 6.1 shows which modules are available for each API, along with links to the API documentation.

Table 6.1 API Documentation for the SDK

Language API	Available Modules
RTI Recording Service C API	Storage Transformation (see RTI Routing Service C API)
RTI Recording Service C++ API	Service Storage Transformation (see RTI Routing Service C++ API)