Add ni-apis submodule and remove local session.proto

Author: rahur-NI

.github/workflows/check_latest_release.yml

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          submodules: true
 
       - name: Extract module name and version from release tag
         id: extract_tag

.github/workflows/github_actions_aws_rhel_python64.yml

@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          submodules: true
       - name: execute system tests
         uses: ./.github/actions/linux
         with:

.github/workflows/github_actions_aws_windows_python32.yml

@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ jobs:
       steps:
         - name: checkout repository
           uses: actions/checkout@v3
+          with:
+            submodules: true
         - name: execute system tests
           uses: ./.github/actions/windows
           with:

.github/workflows/github_actions_aws_windows_python64.yml

@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ jobs:
       steps:
         - name: checkout repository
           uses: actions/checkout@v3
+          with:
+            submodules: true
         - name: execute system tests
           uses: ./.github/actions/windows
           with:

.gitmodules

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "third_party/ni-apis"]
+	path = third_party/ni-apis
+	url = https://github.com/ni/ni-apis.git

build/defines.mak

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ DRIVER_DIR := $(ROOT_DIR)/src/$(DRIVER)
 METADATA_DIR := $(DRIVER_DIR)/metadata
 METADATA_FILES := $(wildcard $(METADATA_DIR)/*.py)
 SHARED_PROTOS_DIR := $(ROOT_DIR)/src/shared_protos
-PROTO_DIRS := $(METADATA_DIR) $(SHARED_PROTOS_DIR)
+NI_APIS_PROTOS_DIR := $(ROOT_DIR)/third_party/ni-apis/ni/grpcdevice/v1
+PROTO_DIRS := $(METADATA_DIR) $(SHARED_PROTOS_DIR) $(NI_APIS_PROTOS_DIR)
 PROTO_FILE ?= $(METADATA_DIR)/$(DRIVER).proto
 
 BUILD_HELPER_SCRIPTS := $(wildcard $(BUILD_HELPER_DIR)/*.py $(BUILD_HELPER_DIR)/helper/*.py)

src/shared_protos/session.proto

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ deps =
     test: hightime
     test: grpcio == 1.75.1  # Compatible with Python 3.14; should be backwards compatible with grpcio-tools 1.59.0
     test: protobuf == 5.27.2  # Compatible with Python 3.14; should be backwards compatible with grpcio-tools 1.59.0
-    test: ni.grpcdevice.v1.proto >= 1.0.0
+    test: ni.grpcdevice.v1.proto >= 1.0.0  # Provides session_pb2 package at runtime since we no longer generate it per-driver
     build_test: pytest
     build_test: coverage
     build_test: mako
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ show_source = true
 # We recommend setting your editor's visual guide to 79 but allow overflow to
 # 160 for readability in certain cases due to generated code
 # max_line_length = 160
-exclude = build,docs,.tox,__pycache__,processed_metadata,.eggs,*_pb2*.py
+exclude = build,docs,.tox,__pycache__,processed_metadata,.eggs,*_pb2*.py,third_party
 # H903: Windows style line endings not allowed in code
 # E501: Line length
 # W391: Blank line at end of file

third_party/ni-apis

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ deps =
     test: hightime
     test: grpcio == 1.75.1  # Compatible with Python 3.14; should be backwards compatible with grpcio-tools 1.59.0
     test: protobuf == 5.27.2  # Compatible with Python 3.14; should be backwards compatible with grpcio-tools 1.59.0
-    test: ni.grpcdevice.v1.proto >= 1.0.0
+    test: ni.grpcdevice.v1.proto >= 1.0.0  # Provides session_pb2 package at runtime since we no longer generate it per-driver
     build_test: pytest
     build_test: coverage
     build_test: mako
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ show_source = true
 # We recommend setting your editor's visual guide to 79 but allow overflow to
 # 160 for readability in certain cases due to generated code
 # max_line_length = 160
-exclude = build,docs,.tox,__pycache__,processed_metadata,.eggs,*_pb2*.py
+exclude = build,docs,.tox,__pycache__,processed_metadata,.eggs,*_pb2*.py,third_party
 # H903: Windows style line endings not allowed in code
 # E501: Line length
 # W391: Blank line at end of file