/* * A general structure for extracting hierarchical data from the devices; * typically key-value pairs, but allows for more rich data as well. * * Copyright (C) 2015 by Erkki Seppälä * * 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, see . */ #ifndef INCLUDE_DATA_H_ #define INCLUDE_DATA_H_ #include typedef enum { DATA_DATA, /* pointer to data is stored */ DATA_INT, /* pointer to integer is stored */ DATA_DOUBLE, /* pointer to a double is stored */ DATA_STRING, /* pointer to a string is stored */ DATA_ARRAY, /* pointer to an array of values is stored */ DATA_COUNT, /* invalid */ DATA_FORMAT /* indicates the following value is formatted */ } data_type_t; typedef struct data_array { int num_values; data_type_t type; void *values; } data_array_t; typedef struct data { char *key; char *pretty_key; /* the name used for displaying data to user in with a nicer name */ data_type_t type; char *format; /* if not null, contains special formatting string */ void *value; struct data* next; /* chaining to the next element in the linked list; NULL indicates end-of-list */ } data_t; struct data_printer; extern struct data_printer data_json_printer; extern struct data_printer data_kv_printer; extern struct data_printer data_csv_printer; /** Constructs a structured data object. Example: data_make("key", "Pretty key", DATA_INT, 42, "others", "More data", DATA_DATA, data_make("foo", DATA_DOUBLE, 42.0, NULL), "zoom", NULL, data_array(2, DATA_STRING, (char*[]){"hello", "World"}), "double", "Double", DATA_DOUBLE, 10.0/3, NULL); Most of the time the function copies perhaps what you expect it to. Things it copies: - string contents for keys and values - numerical arrays - string arrays (copied deeply) Things it moves: - recursive data_t* and data_array_t* values The rule is: if an object is boxed (look at the dmt structure in the data.c) and it has a array_elementwise_import in the same structure, then it is copied deeply. Otherwise, it is copied shallowly. @param key Name of the first value to put in. @param pretty_key Pretty name for the key. Use "" if to omit pretty label for this field completely, or NULL if to use key name for it. @param type Type of the first value to put in. @param ... The value of the first value to put in, follwed by the rest of the key-type-values. The list is terminated with a NULL. @return A constructed data_t* object or NULL if there was a memory allocation error. */ data_t *data_make(const char *key, const char *pretty_key, ...); /** Constructs an array from given data of the given uniform type. @param ptr The contents pointed by the argument are copied in. @return The constructed data array object, typically placed inside a data_t or NULL if there was a memory allocation error. */ data_array_t *data_array(int num_values, data_type_t type, void *ptr); /** Releases a data array */ void data_array_free(data_array_t *array); /** Prints a structured data object as JSON to the given stream */ void data_print(data_t *data, FILE* file, struct data_printer *printer, void *aux); /** Releases a structure object */ void data_free(data_t *data); /** Construct auxiliary data for CSV construction @param fields the list of fields to accept and expect. Array is copied, but the actual strings not. The list may contain duplicates and they are eliminated. @param num_fields number of fields @return The auxiliary data to pass along with data_csv_printer to data_print. You must release this object with data_csv_free once you're done with it. */ void *data_csv_init(const char **fields, int num_fields); /** Destructs auxiliary CSV data. */ void data_csv_free(void *csv); #endif // INCLUDE_DATA_H_