Re: binary plist support

[yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi)]

hi,

what's the status of this?

YAMAMOTO Takashi

> # 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
> 
>