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19
20/**
21 * @file
22 * Public dictionary API.
23 * @deprecated
24 * AVDictionary is provided for compatibility with libav. It is both in
25 * implementation as well as API inefficient. It does not scale and is
26 * extremely slow with large dictionaries.
27 * It is recommended that new code uses our tree container from tree.c/h
28 * where applicable, which uses AVL trees to achieve O(log n) performance.
29 */
30
31#ifndef AVUTIL_DICT_H
32#define AVUTIL_DICT_H
33
34#include <stdint.h>
35
36#include "version.h"
37
38/**
39 * @addtogroup lavu_dict AVDictionary
40 * @ingroup lavu_data
41 *
42 * @brief Simple key:value store
43 *
44 * @{
45 * Dictionaries are used for storing key:value pairs. To create
46 * an AVDictionary, simply pass an address of a NULL pointer to
47 * av_dict_set(). NULL can be used as an empty dictionary wherever
48 * a pointer to an AVDictionary is required.
49 * Use av_dict_get() to retrieve an entry or iterate over all
50 * entries and finally av_dict_free() to free the dictionary
51 * and all its contents.
52 *
53 @code
54 AVDictionary *d = NULL; // "create" an empty dictionary
55 AVDictionaryEntry *t = NULL;
56
57 av_dict_set(&d, "foo", "bar", 0); // add an entry
58
59 char *k = av_strdup("key"); // if your strings are already allocated,
60 char *v = av_strdup("value"); // you can avoid copying them like this
61 av_dict_set(&d, k, v, AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY | AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL);
62
63 while (t = av_dict_get(d, "", t, AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX)) {
64 <....> // iterate over all entries in d
65 }
66 av_dict_free(&d);
67 @endcode
68 *
69 */
70
71#define AV_DICT_MATCH_CASE 1 /**< Only get an entry with exact-case key match. Only relevant in av_dict_get(). */
72#define AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX 2 /**< Return first entry in a dictionary whose first part corresponds to the search key,
73 ignoring the suffix of the found key string. Only relevant in av_dict_get(). */
74#define AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY 4 /**< Take ownership of a key that's been
75 allocated with av_malloc() or another memory allocation function. */
76#define AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL 8 /**< Take ownership of a value that's been
77 allocated with av_malloc() or another memory allocation function. */
78#define AV_DICT_DONT_OVERWRITE 16 ///< Don't overwrite existing entries.
79#define AV_DICT_APPEND 32 /**< If the entry already exists, append to it. Note that no
80 delimiter is added, the strings are simply concatenated. */
81
82typedef struct AVDictionaryEntry {
83 char *key;
84 char *value;
85} AVDictionaryEntry;
86
87typedef struct AVDictionary AVDictionary;
88
89/**
90 * Get a dictionary entry with matching key.
91 *
92 * The returned entry key or value must not be changed, or it will
93 * cause undefined behavior.
94 *
95 * To iterate through all the dictionary entries, you can set the matching key
96 * to the null string "" and set the AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX flag.
97 *
98 * @param prev Set to the previous matching element to find the next.
99 * If set to NULL the first matching element is returned.
100 * @param key matching key
101 * @param flags a collection of AV_DICT_* flags controlling how the entry is retrieved
102 * @return found entry or NULL in case no matching entry was found in the dictionary
103 */
104AVDictionaryEntry *av_dict_get(FF_CONST_AVUTIL53 AVDictionary *m, const char *key,
105 const AVDictionaryEntry *prev, int flags);
106
107/**
108 * Get number of entries in dictionary.
109 *
110 * @param m dictionary
111 * @return number of entries in dictionary
112 */
113int av_dict_count(const AVDictionary *m);
114
115/**
116 * Set the given entry in *pm, overwriting an existing entry.
117 *
118 * Note: If AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY or AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL is set,
119 * these arguments will be freed on error.
120 *
121 * @param pm pointer to a pointer to a dictionary struct. If *pm is NULL
122 * a dictionary struct is allocated and put in *pm.
123 * @param key entry key to add to *pm (will be av_strduped depending on flags)
124 * @param value entry value to add to *pm (will be av_strduped depending on flags).
125 * Passing a NULL value will cause an existing entry to be deleted.
126 * @return >= 0 on success otherwise an error code <0
127 */
128int av_dict_set(AVDictionary **pm, const char *key, const char *value, int flags);
129
130/**
131 * Convenience wrapper for av_dict_set that converts the value to a string
132 * and stores it.
133 *
134 * Note: If AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY is set, key will be freed on error.
135 */
136int av_dict_set_int(AVDictionary **pm, const char *key, int64_t value, int flags);
137
138/**
139 * Parse the key/value pairs list and add the parsed entries to a dictionary.
140 *
141 * In case of failure, all the successfully set entries are stored in
142 * *pm. You may need to manually free the created dictionary.
143 *
144 * @param key_val_sep a 0-terminated list of characters used to separate
145 * key from value
146 * @param pairs_sep a 0-terminated list of characters used to separate
147 * two pairs from each other
148 * @param flags flags to use when adding to dictionary.
149 * AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY and AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL
150 * are ignored since the key/value tokens will always
151 * be duplicated.
152 * @return 0 on success, negative AVERROR code on failure
153 */
154int av_dict_parse_string(AVDictionary **pm, const char *str,
155 const char *key_val_sep, const char *pairs_sep,
156 int flags);
157
158/**
159 * Copy entries from one AVDictionary struct into another.
160 * @param dst pointer to a pointer to a AVDictionary struct. If *dst is NULL,
161 * this function will allocate a struct for you and put it in *dst
162 * @param src pointer to source AVDictionary struct
163 * @param flags flags to use when setting entries in *dst
164 * @note metadata is read using the AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX flag
165 */
166void av_dict_copy(AVDictionary **dst, FF_CONST_AVUTIL53 AVDictionary *src, int flags);
167
168/**
169 * Free all the memory allocated for an AVDictionary struct
170 * and all keys and values.
171 */
172void av_dict_free(AVDictionary **m);
173
174/**
175 * @}
176 */
177
178#endif /* AVUTIL_DICT_H */