it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
-
+
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
*/
+/****h* silcutil/SILC Buffer Format Interface
+ *
+ * DESCRIPTION
+ *
+ * SILC Buffer Format API provides a few functions for formatting
+ * various different data types into a buffer, and retrieving
+ * various data from buffer into specific data types. It is usefull
+ * to format for example packets and later unformat them.
+ *
+ ***/
+
#ifndef SILCBUFFMT_H
#define SILCBUFFMT_H
_SI_ = signed
_UI_ = unsigned
+ Any XXX_STRING_ALLOC types will allocate space for the data and
+ memcpy the data to the pointer sent as argument (in unformatting).
+
+ Any XXX_STRING will not allocate or copy any data. Instead it
+ will set the pointer to the data. Note that the data pointer
+ returned (in unformatting) must not be freed.
+
*/
typedef enum {
SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_SI8_CHAR,
SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_SI32_INT,
SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI32_INT,
- SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI16_STRING,
- SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI16_STRING_ALLOC,
- SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI32_STRING,
- SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI32_STRING_ALLOC,
- SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI16_NSTRING,
- SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI16_NSTRING_ALLOC,
- SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI32_NSTRING,
- SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI32_NSTRING_ALLOC,
- SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI_XNSTRING,
- SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI_XNSTRING_ALLOC,
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_SI64_INT,
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI64_INT,
+
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI8_STRING, /* No copy */
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI8_STRING_ALLOC, /* Alloc + memcpy */
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI16_STRING, /* No copy */
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI16_STRING_ALLOC, /* Alloc + memcpy */
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI32_STRING, /* No copy */
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI32_STRING_ALLOC, /* Alloc + memcpy */
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI8_NSTRING, /* No copy */
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI8_NSTRING_ALLOC, /* Alloc + memcpy */
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI16_NSTRING, /* No copy */
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI16_NSTRING_ALLOC, /* Alloc + memcpy */
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI32_NSTRING, /* No copy */
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI32_NSTRING_ALLOC, /* Alloc + memcpy */
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI_XNSTRING, /* No copy */
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI_XNSTRING_ALLOC, /* Alloc + memcpy */
SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_END
} SilcBufferParamType;
-/* Macros for expanding parameters into variable function argument list.
- These are passed to silc_buffer_format and silc_buffer_unformat
+/* Macros for expanding parameters into variable function argument list.
+ These are passed to silc_buffer_format and silc_buffer_unformat
functions. */
/* One signed/unsigned character.
#define SILC_STR_SI_CHAR(x) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_SI8_CHAR, (x)
#define SILC_STR_UI_CHAR(x) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI8_CHAR, (x)
-/* Signed/unsigned short.
+/* Signed/SilcUInt16.
Formatting: SILC_STR_SI_SHORT(short)
- SILC_STR_UI_SHORT(unsigned short)
+ SILC_STR_UI_SHORT(SilcUInt16)
Unformatting: SILC_STR_SI_SHORT(short *)
- SILC_STR_UI_SHORT(unsigned short *)
+ SILC_STR_UI_SHORT(SilcUInt16 *)
*/
#define SILC_STR_SI_SHORT(x) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_SI16_SHORT, (x)
#define SILC_STR_UI_SHORT(x) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI16_SHORT, (x)
-/* Signed/unsigned int.
+/* Signed/SilcUInt32.
Formatting: SILC_STR_SI_INT(int)
- SILC_STR_UI_INT(unsigned int)
+ SILC_STR_UI_INT(SilcUInt32)
Unformatting: SILC_STR_SI_INT(int *)
- SILC_STR_UI_INT(unsigned int *)
+ SILC_STR_UI_INT(SilcUInt32 *)
*/
#define SILC_STR_SI_INT(x) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_SI32_INT, (x)
#define SILC_STR_UI_INT(x) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI32_INT, (x)
+/* Signed/SilcUInt64.
+
+ Formatting: SILC_STR_SI_INT64(int)
+ SILC_STR_UI_INT64(SilcUInt32)
+ Unformatting: SILC_STR_SI_INT64(int *)
+ SILC_STR_UI_INT64(SilcUInt32 *)
+
+*/
+#define SILC_STR_SI_INT64(x) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_SI64_INT, (x)
+#define SILC_STR_UI_INT64(x) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI64_INT, (x)
+
/* Unsigned NULL terminated string. Note that the string must be
NULL terminated because strlen() will be used to get the length of
- the string.
+ the string.
Formatting: SILC_STR_UI32_STRING(unsigned char *)
Unformatting: SILC_STR_UI32_STRING(unsigned char **)
Unformatting procedure will check for length of the string from the
buffer before trying to get the string out. Thus, one *must* format the
- length as UI_INT or UI_SHORT into the buffer *before* formatting the
- actual string to the buffer, and, in unformatting one must ignore the
- length of the string because unformatting procedure will take it
+ length as UI_INT or UI_SHORT into the buffer *before* formatting the
+ actual string to the buffer, and, in unformatting one must ignore the
+ length of the string because unformatting procedure will take it
automatically.
Example:
- Formatting: ..., SILC_STR_UI_INT(strlen(string)),
+ Formatting: ..., SILC_STR_UI_INT(strlen(string)),
SILC_STR_UI32_STRING(string), ...
Unformatting: ..., SILC_STR_UI32_STRING(&string), ...
I.e., you ignore the formatted length field in unformatting. If you don't
the unformatting procedure might fail and it definitely does not unformat
- the data reliably.
+ the data reliably.
- _ALLOC routines automatically allocates memory for the variable sent
+ _ALLOC routines automatically allocates memory for the variable sent
as argument in unformatting.
*/
+#define SILC_STR_UI8_STRING(x) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI8_STRING, (x)
+#define SILC_STR_UI8_STRING_ALLOC(x) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI8_STRING_ALLOC, (x)
#define SILC_STR_UI16_STRING(x) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI16_STRING, (x)
#define SILC_STR_UI16_STRING_ALLOC(x) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI16_STRING_ALLOC, (x)
#define SILC_STR_UI32_STRING(x) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI32_STRING, (x)
/* Unsigned string. Second argument is the length of the string.
- Formatting: SILC_STR_UI32_NSTRING(unsigned char *, unsigned int)
- Unformatting: SILC_STR_UI32_NSTRING(unsigned char **, unsigned int *)
+ Formatting: SILC_STR_UI32_NSTRING(unsigned char *, SilcUInt32)
+ Unformatting: SILC_STR_UI32_NSTRING(unsigned char **, SilcUInt32 *)
Unformatting procedure will check for length of the string from the
buffer before trying to get the string out. Thus, one *must* format the
- length as UI_INT or UI_SHORT into the buffer *before* formatting the
- actual string to the buffer, and, in unformatting one must ignore the
- length of the string because unformatting procedure will take it
+ length as UI_INT or UI_SHORT into the buffer *before* formatting the
+ actual string to the buffer, and, in unformatting one must ignore the
+ length of the string because unformatting procedure will take it
automatically.
Example:
- Formatting: ..., SILC_STR_UI_INT(strlen(string)),
+ Formatting: ..., SILC_STR_UI_INT(strlen(string)),
SILC_STR_UI32_NSTRING(string, strlen(string)), ...
Unformatting: ..., SILC_STR_UI32_NSTRING(&string, &len), ...
UI/SI16 and UI/SI32 means that the length is considered to be either
short (16 bits) or int (32 bits) in unformatting.
- _ALLOC routines automatically allocates memory for the variable sent
+ _ALLOC routines automatically allocates memory for the variable sent
as argument in unformatting.
*/
+#define SILC_STR_UI8_NSTRING(x, l) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI8_NSTRING, (x), (l)
+#define SILC_STR_UI8_NSTRING_ALLOC(x, l) \
+ SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI8_NSTRING_ALLOC, (x), (l)
#define SILC_STR_UI16_NSTRING(x, l) SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI16_NSTRING, (x), (l)
#define SILC_STR_UI16_NSTRING_ALLOC(x, l) \
SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI16_NSTRING_ALLOC, (x), (l)
#define SILC_STR_UI32_NSTRING_ALLOC(x, l) \
SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI32_NSTRING_ALLOC, (x), (l)
-/* Extended Unsigned string formatting. Second argument is the length of
+/* Extended Unsigned string formatting. Second argument is the length of
the string.
Formatting: This is equal to using *_NSTRING
- Unformatting: SILC_STR_UI_XNSTRING(unsigned char **, unsigned int)
+ Unformatting: SILC_STR_UI_XNSTRING(unsigned char **, SilcUInt32)
This type can be used to take arbitrary length string from the buffer
by sending the requested amount of bytes as argument. This differs
from the buffer without having the length of the string formatted
in the buffer.
- _ALLOC routines automatically allocates memory for the variable sent
+ _ALLOC routines automatically allocates memory for the variable sent
as argument in unformatting.
*/
#define SILC_STR_UI_XNSTRING_ALLOC(x, l) \
SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_UI_XNSTRING_ALLOC, (x), (l)
-/* Marks end of the argument list. This must the at the end of the
+/* Marks end of the argument list. This must be at the end of the
argument list or error will occur. */
#define SILC_STR_END SILC_BUFFER_PARAM_END
/* Prototypes */
+
+/****f* silcutil/SilcBufferFormatAPI/silc_buffer_format
+ *
+ * SYNOPSIS
+ *
+ * int silc_buffer_format(SilcBuffer dst, ...);
+ *
+ * DESCRIPTION
+ *
+ * Formats a buffer from a variable argument list. Returns -1 on error
+ * and the length of the formatted buffer otherwise.
+ *
+ ***/
int silc_buffer_format(SilcBuffer dst, ...);
+
+/****f* silcutil/SilcBufferFormatAPI/silc_buffer_unformat
+ *
+ * SYNOPSIS
+ *
+ * int silc_buffer_unformat(SilcBuffer src, ...);
+ *
+ * DESCRIPTION
+ *
+ * Unformats a buffer from a variable argument list. Returns -1 on error
+ * and the length of the unformatted buffer otherwise.
+ *
+ ***/
int silc_buffer_unformat(SilcBuffer src, ...);
-#endif
+/****f* silcutil/SilcBufferFormatAPI/silc_buffer_format_vp
+ *
+ * SYNOPSIS
+ *
+ * int silc_buffer_format_vp(SilcBuffer dst, va_list vp);
+ *
+ * DESCRIPTION
+ *
+ * Formats a buffer from a variable argument list indicated by the `ap'.
+ * Returns -1 on error and the length of the formatted buffer otherwise.
+ *
+ ***/
+int silc_buffer_format_vp(SilcBuffer dst, va_list ap);
+
+/****f* silcutil/SilcBufferFormatAPI/silc_buffer_unformat_vp
+ *
+ * SYNOPSIS
+ *
+ * int silc_buffer_unformat_vp(SilcBuffer src, va_list vp);
+ *
+ * DESCRIPTION
+ *
+ * Unformats a buffer from a variable argument list indicated by the `ap'.
+ * Returns -1 on error and the length of the unformatted buffer otherwise.
+ *
+ ***/
+int silc_buffer_unformat_vp(SilcBuffer src, va_list ap);
+
+/****f* silcutil/SilcBufferFormatAPI/silc_buffer_strformat
+ *
+ * SYNOPSIS
+ *
+ * int silc_buffer_strformat(SilcBuffer dst, ...);
+ *
+ * DESCRIPTION
+ *
+ * Formats a buffer from variable argument list of strings. Eachs
+ * string must be NULL-terminated and the variable argument list must
+ * be end with SILC_STR_END argument. This allows that a string in
+ * the list can be NULL, in which case it is skipped. This automatically
+ * allocates the space for the buffer data but `dst' must be already
+ * allocated by the caller.
+ *
+ ***/
+int silc_buffer_strformat(SilcBuffer dst, ...);
+
+#endif /* !SILCBUFFMT_H */