Creating Container Node in Maya API C++?

[Anonymous]

I want to create a container node and add some nodes to it using Maya C++ API. I could not find anything related to containers in Maya document. Closest I got was MFnContainerNode which is a function set to work on container nodes, But how do I create one?

In Python I can do something like

maya.commands.container(name = "myContainer", addNode="some node 0", ihb=True)
maya.commands.container("myContainer", edit=True, addNode="some node 1" )

Is there an equivalent in Maya C++ API? If not, any workarounds?

[Anonymous]

import maya.OpenMaya as OpenMaya

fn = OpenMaya.MFnContainerNode()
fn.create("container", "testContainer")

[Anonymous]

but how do I add nodes to this container?