xApp Specification and Local Testing

Obsolete Note

We are in the process of moving this xApp writing guide to https://docs.o-ran-sc.org.

Please refer to App Writing Guide for latest guide.

XApps can be written using the RIC utility libraries (RMR, SDL, logging, etc) directly or by utilizing the xApp frameworks (in go, C++, and Python). The xApp frameworks are described in

https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-ric-plt-xapp-frame-cpp/en/latest/user-guide.html

For RIC xApps to be deployable, they need to have a proper docker image generated and available in a accessible docker registry, and a valid xApp descriptor,