Access KV store and Environment Variables in G-WAN using MONO

Question

I got mono 3.0.6 working with G-WAN and now I am trying to use G-WAN persistent pointers and KV Store using mono but don't know how to do it.

G-WAN does expose some functions on gwan_api.cs but the KV function and get_env is not there.

Is it possible to access this in mono?

Answer 1

Is it possible to access G-WAN's KV store in C# scripts?

No, and here is why.

We initially tried the wrappers we wrote but, like for JNI, the mandatory conversion overhead is defeating the purpose of light and fast calls.

Like Java, C# offers a plethora of solutions for almost everything G-WAN does natively and this is what should be used if you use either language.

Note that part of your application can be written in C/C++/D/Objective-C/Objective-C++ and call all the native G-WAN API directly while the rest of your application may use C# or Java.

That's the advantage for an Application Server to support different programming languages.