On Apr 2, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as part of the v5.0.0 API fixup’s, I’d like to change the string ownership
> “contract” for TSRedirectUrlSet(). Today, the incoming URL string is
> basically strdup()’ed, and in most use cases I can think of, it’d be more
> logical to stick to how we do other similar APIs, which is to assume the
> caller has allocated the memory. This also significantly improves efficiency
> for many use cases. For example, a typical plugin use case would be something
> like this:
>
> url_str = TSUrlStringGet(mbuf, url, &url_len);
> TSRedirectUrlSet(txn, url_str, url_len);
> TSfree(url_str); // I’d like to eliminate this!
So I’ve spent some more time on this, and instead of the above, I’d like to
propose the following:
1. We leave TSRedirectUrlSet() / Get() as is (as far as functionality goes).
This makes this proposal both API and binary compatible with v4.2.x.
2. We mark them as Deprecated, removing the old API in 6.0.0.
3. We add TSHttpTxnRedirectSet() / Get() , with the new string ownership as
described above. This naming convention is much better aligned with the rest of
our APIs.
I left the URL string lengths as int type for now, we’ll discuss at the Summit
about TS-2514, changing our usage of “int” to more appropriate size_t etc.
Cheers,
— Leif
/**
This is a generalization of the TSHttpTxnFollowRedirect(), but gives finer
control over the behavior. Instead of using the Location: header for the
new
destination, this API takes the new URL as a parameter. Calling this API
transfers the ownership of the URL from the plugin to the core, so you must
make sure it is heap allocated, and that you do not free it.
Calling this API implicitly also enables the "Follow Redirect" feature, so
there is no rason to call TSHttpTxnFollowRedirect() as well.
@param txnp the transaction pointer
@param url a heap allocated string with the URL
@param url_len the length of the URL
*/
tsapi void TSHttpTxnRedirectUrlSet(TSHttpTxn txnp, const char* url, int
url_len);
tsapi TS_DEPRECATED void TSRedirectUrlSet(TSHttpTxn txnp, const char* url,
const int url_len);
/**
Return the current (if set) redirection URL string. This is still owned by
the
core, and must not be free'd.
@param txnp the transaction pointer
@param url_len_ptr a pointer to where the URL length is to be stored
@return the url string
*/
tsapi const char* TSHttpTxnRedirectUrlGet(TSHttpTxn txnp, int* url_len_ptr);
tsapi TS_DEPRECATED const char* TSRedirectUrlGet(TSHttpTxn txnp, int*
url_len_ptr);
