ping... since this blocks some stuff I'm doing, will consider in
agreement in 14h. :-)
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
<barbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If you followed the Ecore-Con and Ecore-Con-URL Eoify emails I've sent
> you'll notice one of the proposals is to introduce Stream Reader and
> Writer interfaces, that the default implementations will do a read(2)
> and write(2) with minimum interference.
>
> Those require the traditional "const void *buf, size_t buflen" (read)
> and "void *buf, size_t buflen" (write). You can guess that hinting
> the bindings and users that both are correlated is a pain, thus the
> idea to introduce simple structures to state so:
>
> typedef struct _Eina_Slice {
> const void *mem;
> size_t len;
> } Eina_Slice;
>
> typedef struct _Eina_Rw_Slice {
> void *mem;
> size_t len;
> } Eina_Rw_Slice;
>
> With those Eolian could introduce a new native type "slice" that maps
> to "Eina_Rw_Slice" and "const(slice)" to "Eina_Slice".
>
> These could be introduce in most functions we currently have
> "_length()" variants, like "eina_stringshare_add_length()" could have
> "eina_stringshare_add_slice()". Likewise, APIs could return both in
> one go, like "eina_binbuf_string_get() + eina_binbuf_length_get()"
> could be fulfilled by "eina_binbuf_slice_get()".
>
> For ease of use, we can even pass and return the struct directly, not
> a pointer to one. Example:
>
> Eina_Slice eina_binbuf_slice_get(const Eina_Binbuf *buf) {
> return (Eina_Slice){.mem = buf->buf, .len = buf->len};
> }
>
> which allows:
>
> Eina_Slice s = eina_binbuf_slice_get(buf); // no malloc/free
>
> Likewise for parameters:
>
> Eina_Error efl_interface_reader_read(Eo *obj, Eina_Rw_Slice dst,
> size_t *used) {
> while (1) {
> ssize_t r = read(pd->fd, dst.mem, dst.len);
> if (r >= 0) {
> *used = r;
> return 0;
> } else if (errno != EINTR) {
> return eina_error_from_errno(errno); /* to be created */
> }
> }
> }
>
> while allows:
>
> err = efl_interface_reader_read(obj, (Eina_Rw_Slice){.buf =
> localbuf, .len=sizeof(localbuf)}, &used);
>
> (usually that's the expansion of some helper macro, like read_from_literal()).
>
>
> All of that said, are you okay with adding Eina_Slice and Eina_Rw_Slice?
>
> --
> Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> --------------------------------------
> Mobile: +55 (16) 99354-9890
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