-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/2009 10:38 AM, Simo Sorce wrote: > This patch finally allows us to define the type for basic options. > It uses a union to store different types, and an enum to list the > allowed types. > It also provides for helper functions that always check the type to > safely retrieve data, or scream loudly if we messed up. > > This allowed me to remove all but 1 special option that was a duplicate > made only to avoid converting from string to int every time we needed to > get an option. > The only remaining special case is the schema type, because that is a > special string to special number transaltion. But these kind of options > (another is tls_reqcert) are rare enough that we can avoid trying to > make special handlers for them too. > > Currently there are 4 types supported: string, blob, number, boolean. > String has 2 subtypes, const and non const, but they are not enforced > (you can assign a const string and then re-read it as non-const). But > this is not really a problem, as values are always copied in the init > functions, furthermore, although you can get values as non-const they > should always be regarded a immutable strings as the value returned is > the actual string saved in the option, so changing it, means changing > the configuration. > > I think we can later take this code and make it generic in the provider > backend code, so that all backends can use it. It should be easy enough > to do. > > Simo. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > sssd-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel
Nack. Generates a segfault running "getent passwd u...@ldap" - -- Stephen Gallagher RHCE 804006346421761 Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkquMP4ACgkQeiVVYja6o6M4OACgntkADmmKhwSSrPsv8x1sp/LI mGEAmgM2+NNGDeB3kZO39xE2XZAnPR+p =yJby -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ sssd-devel mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel
