quakeforge/include/QF/qfplist.h

/*
	qfplist.h

	Property list management types and prototypes

	Copyright (C) 2000 Jeff Teunissen <deek@d2dc.net>

	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
	modify 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 GNU General Public License for more details.

	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
	along with this program; if not, write to:

		Free Software Foundation, Inc.
		59 Temple Place - Suite 330
		Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA

*/

#ifndef __QF_qfplist_h
#define __QF_qfplist_h

/** \defgroup qfplist Property lists
	\ingroup utils
*/
///@{

#include "QF/qtypes.h"

/** The type of the property list item.

	For further details, see \ref property-list.
*/
typedef enum {
	QFDictionary,	///< The property list item represents a dictionary.
	QFArray,		///< The property list item represents an array.
	QFBinary,		///< The property list item represents arbitrary binary
					///< data.
	QFString		///< The property list item represents a C string.
} pltype_t;

/**	Generic property list item.

	All inspection and manipulation is to be done via the accessor functions.
*/
typedef struct plitem_s plitem_t;

struct plfield_s;
/** Custom parser for the field.

	With this, custom parsing of any property list object type is
	supported. For example, parsing of strings into numeric values,
	converting binary objects to images, and deeper parsing of array and
	dictionary objects.

	If null, then the default parser for the object type is used:
	  * QFString: the  point to the actual string. The string continues
		to be owned by the string object.
	  * QFBinary: pointer to fixed-size DARRAY_TYPE(byte) (so size isn't
		lost)
	  * QFArray: pointer to fixed-size DARRAY_TYPE(plitem_t *) with the
		indivisual objects. The individual objects continue to be owned
		by the array object.
	  * QFDictionary: pointer to the hashtab_t hash table used for the
		dictionary object. The hash table continues to be owned by the
		dictionary object.

	\param field	Pointer to this field item.
	\param item		The property list item being parsed into the field.
	\param data		Pointer to the field in the structure being parsed.
	\param messages	An array object the parser can use to store any
					error messages. Messages should be strings, but no
					checking is done: it is up to the top-level caller to
					parse out the messages.
	\return			0 for error, 1 for success. See \a PL_ParseDictionary.
*/
typedef int (*plparser_t) (const struct plfield_s *field,
						   const struct plitem_s *item,
						   void *data,
						   struct plitem_s *messages);

/** A field to be parsed from a dictionary item.

	something
*/
typedef struct plfield_s {
	const char *name;		///< matched by dictionary key
	size_t      offset;		///< the offset of the field within the structure
	pltype_t    type;		///< the required type of the dictionary object
	plparser_t  parser;		///< custom parser function
	void       *data;		///< additional data for \a parser
} plfield_t;

typedef struct plelement_s {
	pltype_t    type;		///< the required type of the array elements
	size_t      stride;		///< the size of each element
	void     *(*alloc) (size_t size);	///< allocator for array memory
	plparser_t  parser;		///< custom parser function
	void       *data;		///< additional data for \a parser
} plelement_t;

/** Create an in-memory representation of the contents of a property list.

	\param string	the saved plist, as read from a file.

	\return Returns an object equivalent to the passed-in string.
	\note You are responsible for freeing the returned object.
*/
plitem_t *PL_GetPropertyList (const char *string);

/** Create a property list string from the in-memory representation.

	\param pl the in-memory representation
	\return the text representation of the property list
	\note You are responsible for freeing the returned string.
*/
char *PL_WritePropertyList (plitem_t *pl);

/** Retrieve the type of an object.

	\param item The object
	\return the type of the object
*/
pltype_t PL_Type (const plitem_t *item) __attribute__((pure));

/** Retrieve the line number of an object.

	\param item The object
	\return the line number on which the object began, or 0 if not from a
			string
*/
int PL_Line (const plitem_t *item) __attribute__((pure));

/** Retrieve a string from a string object.

	\param string The string object
	\return pointer to the actual string value or NULL if string isn't a
	string.
	\note	You are NOT responsible for freeing the returned object. It will
	be destroyed when its container is.
*/
const char *PL_String (const plitem_t *string) __attribute__((pure));

/** Retrieve a value from a dictionary object.

	\param dict	The dictionary to retrieve a value from
	\param key	The unique key associated with the value
	\return the value associated with the key, or NULL if not found or dict
	isn't a dictionary.
	\note	You are NOT responsible for freeing the returned object. It will
	be destroyed when its container is.
*/
plitem_t *PL_ObjectForKey (plitem_t *dict, const char *key);

/** Remove a value from a dictionary object.

	\param dict	The Dictionary to remove the value from
	\param key	The unique key associated with the value to be removed
	\return the value associated with the key, or NULL if not found or dict
	isn't a dictionary.
	\note	You are responsible for freeing the returned object.
*/
plitem_t *PL_RemoveObjectForKey (plitem_t *dict, const char *key);

/** Retrieve a value from an array object.

	\param array	The array to get the value from
	\param index	The index within the array to retrieve
	\return the value associated with the key, or NULL if not found or array
	isn't an array.
	\note	You are NOT responsible for freeing the returned object. It will
	be destroyed when its container is.
*/
plitem_t *PL_ObjectAtIndex (plitem_t *array, int index) __attribute__((pure));

/** Retrieve a list of all keys in a dictionary.

	\param dict The dictionary to list
	\return an Array containing Strings or NULL if dict isn't a dictionary
	\note You are responsible for freeing this array.
*/
plitem_t *PL_D_AllKeys (plitem_t *dict);

/** Retrieve the number of keys in a dictionary.

	\param dict The dictionary to get the number of keys of.

	\return Returns the number of keys in the dictionary.
*/
int PL_D_NumKeys (plitem_t *dict) __attribute__((pure));

/** Add a key/value pair to a dictionary.

	\param dict The dictionary to which the key/value pair will be added
	\param key The key of the key/value pair to be added to the dictionary
	\param value The value of the key/value pair to be added to the dictionary

	\return true on success, false on failure

	\note the dictionary becomes the owner of the value.
*/
qboolean PL_D_AddObject (plitem_t *dict, const char *key, plitem_t *value);

/** Add an item to an array.

	\param array The array to which the item will be added
	\param item The item to be added to the array

	\return true on success, false on failure

	\note the array becomes the owner of the added item.
*/
qboolean PL_A_AddObject (plitem_t *array, plitem_t *item);

/** Retrieve the number of items in an array.

	\param array The array from which to get the number of objects

	\return number of objects in the array
*/
int PL_A_NumObjects (plitem_t *array) __attribute__((pure));

/** Insert an item into an array before the specified location.

	\param array The array to which the item will be added
	\param item The item to be added to the array
	\param index The location at which to insert the item into the array

	\return true on success, false on failure

	\note the array becomes the owner of the added item.
*/
qboolean PL_A_InsertObjectAtIndex (plitem_t *array, plitem_t *item, int index);

/** Remove a value from an array object.
	The array items will be shuffled to fill the resulting hole.

	\param array	The array from which to remove the value
	\param index	The index within the array to remove
	\return the value associated with the index, or NULL if not found or array
	isn't an array.
	\note	You are responsible for freeing the returned object.
*/
plitem_t *PL_RemoveObjectAtIndex (plitem_t *array, int index);

/** Create a new dictionary object.
	The dictionary will be empty.
	\return the new dictionary object
*/
plitem_t *PL_NewDictionary (void);

/** Create a new array object.
	The array will be empty.
	\return the new array object
*/
plitem_t *PL_NewArray (void);

/** Create a new data object from the given data.
	Takes ownership of the given data.
	\param data	pointer to data buffer
	\param size	number of bytes in the buffer
	\return the new dictionary object
	\note The data will be freed via free() when the item is freed.
*/
plitem_t *PL_NewData (void *data, size_t size);

/** Create a new string object.
	Makes a copy of the given string.
	\param str	C string to copy
	\return the new dictionary object
*/
plitem_t *PL_NewString (const char *str);

/** Free a property list object.

	This function takes care of freeing any referenced property list data, so
	call it only on top-level objects.

	\param item the property list object to be freed
*/
void PL_Free (plitem_t *item);

/**	Parse a dictionary object into a structure.

	For each key in the dictionary, the corresponding field item is used to
	determine how to parse the object associated with that key. Duplicate
	field items are ignored: only the first item is used, and no checking is
	done. Fields for which there is no key in the dictionary are also ignored,
	and the destination is left unmodified. However, keys that have no
	corresponding field are treated as errors and a suitable message is added
	to the \a messages object.

	When an error occurs (unknown key, incorrect item type (item type does not
	match the type specified in the field item) or the field item's \a parser
	returns 0), processing continues but the error result is returned.

	Can be used recursively to parse deep hierarchies.

	\param dict		The dictionary object to parse
	\param fields	Array of field items describing the structure. Terminated
					by a field item with a null \a name pointer.
	\param data     Pointer to the structure into which the data will be
					parsed.
	\param messages Array object supplied by the caller used for storing
					messages. The messages may or may not indicate errors (its
					contents are not checked). This function itself will add
					only string objects.
					If there are any errors, suitable messages will be found in
					the \a messages object. However, just because there are no
					errors doesn't mean that \a messages will remain empty as
					a field's \a parser may add other messages. The standard
					message format is "[line number]: [message]". If the line
					number is 0, then the actual line is unknown (due to the
					source item not being parsed from a file or string).
	\return			0 if there are any errors, 1 if there are no errors.
*/
int PL_ParseDictionary (const plfield_t *fields, const plitem_t *dict,
						void *data, plitem_t *messages);
int PL_ParseArray (const plfield_t *fields, const plitem_t *dict,
				   void *data, plitem_t *messages);
void __attribute__((format(printf,3,4)))
PL_Message (plitem_t *messages, const plitem_t *item, const char *fmt, ...);

///@}

#endif//__QF_qfplist_h