Re: binary plist support

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
> hi,
> 
> what's the status of this?
> 
> YAMAMOTO Takashi

I would welcome bplist support too.

> > # Jason Thorpe 2007-10-16:
> >> [... comments on previous version ...]
> > 
> > I'm done with (hopefully) final version:
> > 
> >   ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/freza/bplist-2007-10-27.diff
> > 
> > The API is:
> > 
> >   <prop/prop_object.h>
> >   typedef enum {
> >     PROP_ENCODING_DEFAULT   =       0,
> >     PROP_ENCODING_XML       =       1,
> >     PROP_ENCODING_BINARY    =       2
> >   } prop_encoding_t;
> > 
> >   <prop/prop_array.h>
> >   /* Externalize as XML */
> >   char *prop_array_externalize(prop_array_t);
> > 
> >   /* Internalize any supported encoding */
> >   prop_array_t prop_array_internalize(const uint8_t *, size_t);
> > 
> >   /* Externalize with given encoding. */
> >   bool prop_array_externalize_with_encoding(prop_array_t, uint8_t **,
> >       size_t *, prop_encoding_t);
> > 
> >   /* Externalize to file with given encoding. */
> >   bool prop_array_externalize_to_file_with_encoding(prop_array_t,
> >       const char *, prop_encoding_t);
> > 
> >   /* Externalize to file with default encoding. */
> >   bool prop_array_externalize_to_file(prop_array_t, const char *);
> > 
> >   /* Internalize any supported encoding from file. */
> >   prop_array_t prop_array_internalize_from_file(const char *);
> > 
> >   <prop/prop_dictionary.h>
> >   /* ... goes much the same as prop_array.h */
> > 
> > As you may notice, prop_${foo}_internalize() signature has changed, I
> > can cook a patch against NetBSD-4 ~tomorrow so that we don't have to
> > bloat the API with backwards compatibility (4.0 is the first version to
> > include proplib and we still have time to forward-compat it).
> > 
> > Comments?
> > 
> >     -- Jachym

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Mindaugas