Is the Splunk SDK for python required to create custom commands?

[a212830]

Looking to create some custom commands - is the Splunk SDK required in order to do this?

[inventsekar]

As per my understanding, SDK would make it easier. from docs -
A custom search command is an executable binary file that reads data in and writes data out. This could be a Python script, a C++ program, or some other executable binary file. For simplicity, the file is referred to as the executable in this documentation. splunk docs -
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.2/Search/Writeasearchcommand

splunk blog link -
http://blogs.splunk.com/2014/04/14/building-custom-search-commands-in-python-part-i-a-simple-generat...

splunk answers post -
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/93248/creating-custom-commands-splunk-5-0-2.html