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+/* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @file util_varbuf.h
+ * @brief Apache resizable variable length buffer library
+ */
+
+#ifndef AP_VARBUF_H
+#define AP_VARBUF_H
+
+#include "apr.h"
+#include "apr_allocator.h"
+
+#include "httpd.h"
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+#define AP_VARBUF_UNKNOWN APR_SIZE_MAX
+struct ap_varbuf_info;
+
+/** A resizable buffer */
+struct ap_varbuf {
+ /** the actual buffer */
+ char *buf;
+
+ /** allocated size of the buffer (minus one for the final \0);
+ * must only be changed using ap_varbuf_grow() */
+ apr_size_t avail;
+
+ /** length of string in buffer, or AP_VARBUF_UNKNOWN. This determines how
+ * much memory is copied by ap_varbuf_grow() and where
+ * ap_varbuf_strmemcat() will append to the buffer. */
+ apr_size_t strlen;
+
+ /** the pool for memory allocations and for registering the cleanup;
+ * the buffer memory will be released when this pool is destroyed */
+ apr_pool_t *pool;
+
+ /** opaque info for memory allocation */
+ struct ap_varbuf_info *info;
+};
+
+/** initialize a resizable buffer. It is safe to re-initialize a prevously
+ * used ap_varbuf. The old buffer will be released when the corresponding
+ * pool is destroyed.
+ * @param pool the pool to allocate small buffers from and to register the
+ * cleanup with
+ * @param vb pointer to the ap_varbuf struct
+ * @init_size the initial size of the buffer (see ap_varbuf_grow() for details)
+ */
+AP_DECLARE(void) ap_varbuf_init(apr_pool_t *pool, struct ap_varbuf *vb,
+ apr_size_t init_size);
+
+/** grow a resizable buffer. If the vb->buf cannot be grown in place, it will
+ * be reallocated and up to vb->strlen + 1 bytes of memory will be copied to
+ * the new location. If vb->strlen == AP_VARBUF_UNKNOWN, the whole buffer
+ * is copied.
+ * @param vb pointer to the ap_varbuf struct
+ * @param new_size the minimum new size of the buffer
+ * @note ap_varbuf_grow() will usually at least double vb->buf's size with
+ * every invocation in order to reduce reallications.
+ * @note ap_varbuf_grow() will use pool memory for small and allocator
+ * mem nodes for larger allocations.
+ * @note ap_varbuf_grow() will call vb->pool's abort function if out of memory.
+ */
+AP_DECLARE(void) ap_varbuf_grow(struct ap_varbuf *vb, apr_size_t new_size);
+
+/** Release memory from a ap_varbuf immediately, if possible.
+ * This allows to free large buffers before the corresponding pool is
+ * destroyed. Only larger allocations using mem nodes will be freed.
+ * @param vb pointer to the ap_varbuf struct
+ * @note After ap_varbuf_free(), vb must not be used unless ap_varbuf_init()
+ * is called again.
+ */
+AP_DECLARE(void) ap_varbuf_free(struct ap_varbuf *vb);
+
+/** Concatenate a string to an ap_varbuf
+ * @param vb pointer to the ap_varbuf struct
+ * @param str the string to append; must be at least len bytes long
+ * @param len the number of characters of *str to concatenate to the buf
+ * @note vb->strlen will be set to the length of the new string
+ * @note vb->buf will be null-terminated
+ */
+AP_DECLARE(void) ap_varbuf_strmemcat(struct ap_varbuf *vb, const char *str,
+ int len);
+
+/** Concatenate a string to an ap_varbuf
+ * @param vb pointer to the ap_varbuf struct
+ * @param str the string to append
+ * @note vb->strlen will be set to the length of the new string
+ */
+#define ap_varbuf_strcat(vb, str) ap_varbuf_strmemcat(vb, str, strlen(str))
+
+/** Read a line from an ap_configfile_t into an ap_varbuf.
+ * @param vb pointer to the ap_varbuf struct
+ * @param cfg pointer to the ap_configfile_t
+ * @param max_len (soft) limit for the size of the buffer
+ * @return see ap_cfg_getline()
+ * @note The buffer will not be grown once it has reached at least max_len
+ * bytes. This means that the returned line can be longer than max_len.
+ * @note vb->strlen will be set to the length of the line
+ */
+AP_DECLARE(apr_status_t) ap_varbuf_cfg_getline(struct ap_varbuf *vb,
+ ap_configfile_t *cfp,
+ apr_size_t max_len);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* !AP_VARBUF_H */