plugin: Make sdb_plugin_info_t public.

[sysdb.git] / src / include / core / data.h

diff --git a/src/include/core/data.h b/src/include/core/data.h
index c7c51b830c3761f91bb0ff55736a26087fb560e1..879af9087db92d7346fee2109326df55eaf25dfc 100644 (file)
--- a/src/include/core/data.h
+++ b/src/include/core/data.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * SysDB - src/include/core/data.h
- * Copyright (C) 2012 Sebastian 'tokkee' Harl <sh@tokkee.org>
+ * Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Sebastian 'tokkee' Harl <sh@tokkee.org>
  * All rights reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 #define SDB_CORE_DATA_H 1
 
 #include "core/time.h"
-#include "utils/strbuf.h"
 
 #include <inttypes.h>
 #include <stddef.h>
@@ -94,24 +93,57 @@ sdb_data_copy(sdb_data_t *dst, const sdb_data_t *src);
 /*
  * sdb_data_free_datum:
  * Free any dynamic memory referenced by the specified datum. Does not free
- * the memory allocated for the sdb_data_t object itself. This function must
+ * the memory allocated by the sdb_data_t object itself. This function must
  * not be used if any static or stack memory is referenced from the data
  * object.
  */
 void
 sdb_data_free_datum(sdb_data_t *datum);
 
+/*
+ * sdb_data_cmp:
+ * Compare two data points. A NULL datum is considered less than any non-NULL
+ * datum. On data-type mismatch, the function always returns a negative value.
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ *  - a value less than zero if d1 compares less than d2
+ *  - zero if d1 compares equal to d2
+ *  - a value greater than zero if d1 compares greater than d2
+ */
+int
+sdb_data_cmp(sdb_data_t *d1, sdb_data_t *d2);
+
+/*
+ * sdb_data_strlen:
+ * Returns a (worst-case) estimate for the number of bytes required to format
+ * the datum as a string. Does not take the terminating null byte into
+ * account.
+ */
+size_t
+sdb_data_strlen(const sdb_data_t *datum);
+
+enum {
+       SDB_UNQUOTED = 0,
+       SDB_SINGLE_QUOTED,
+       SDB_DOUBLE_QUOTED,
+};
+
 /*
  * sdb_data_format:
- * Append the specified datum to the specified string buffer using a default
- * format.
+ * Output the specified datum to the specified string using a default format.
+ * The value of 'quoted' determines whether and how non-integer and
+ * non-decimal values are quoted. If the buffer size is less than the return
+ * value of sdb_data_strlen, the datum may be truncated. The buffer will
+ * always be nul-terminated after calling this function.
  *
  * Returns:
- *  - 0 on success
+ *  - the number of characters written to the buffer (excluding the terminated
+ *    null byte) or the number of characters which would have been written in
+ *    case the output was truncated
  *  - a negative value else
  */
 int
-sdb_data_format(sdb_data_t *datum, sdb_strbuf_t *buf);
+sdb_data_format(const sdb_data_t *datum, char *buf, size_t buflen, int quoted);
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 } /* extern "C" */