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-
-<refentry id="sd_bus_path_encode" conditional="ENABLE_KDBUS">
+<refentry id="sd_bus_path_encode" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>sd_bus_path_encode</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>A monkey with a typewriter</contrib>
- <firstname>Zbigniew</firstname>
- <surname>Jędrzejewski-Szmek</surname>
- <email>zbyszek@in.waw.pl</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>sd_bus_path_encode</refname>
+ <refname>sd_bus_path_encode_many</refname>
<refname>sd_bus_path_decode</refname>
+ <refname>sd_bus_path_decode_many</refname>
<refpurpose>Convert an external identifier into an object path and back</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<paramdef>char **<parameter>ret_path</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_path_encode_many</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>char **<parameter>out</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>const char *<parameter>path_template</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>…</paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_path_decode</function></funcdef>
- <paramdef>const char *<parameter>prefix</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>const char *<parameter>path</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>const char *<parameter>prefix</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>char **<parameter>ret_external_id</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_path_decode_many</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>const char *<parameter>path</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>const char *<parameter>path_template</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>…</paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
prefix and an external identifier string as arguments, plus a
place to store the returned bus path string. The bus path prefix
must be a valid bus path, starting with a slash
- <literal>/</literal>, but not ending in one. The external
- identifier string may be in any format, may be the empty string
- and no restrictions on the charset are made - however it must
+ <literal>/</literal>, and not ending in one. The external
+ identifier string may be in any format, may be the empty string,
+ and has no restrictions on the charset — however, it must
always be <constant>NUL</constant>-terminated. The returned string
will be the concatenation of the bus path prefix plus an escaped
version of the external identifier string. This operation may be
- reversed with <function>sd_bus_decode()</function>. It is
- recommended to only use external identifiers here that generally
+ reversed with <function>sd_bus_path_decode()</function>. It is
+ recommended to only use external identifiers that generally
require little escaping to be turned into valid bus path
- identifiers (for example by sticking to a 7bit ASCII character
+ identifiers (for example, by sticking to a 7-bit ASCII character
set), in order to ensure the resulting bus path is still short and
easily processed.</para>
takes a bus path and a prefix string, plus a place to store the
returned external identifier string. If the bus path does not
start with the specified prefix, 0 is returned and the returned
- string is set to <constant>NULL</constant>. Otherwise the the
+ string is set to <constant>NULL</constant>. Otherwise, the
string following the prefix is unescaped and returned in the
external identifier string.</para>
- <para>The escaping used will will replace all characters which are
- invalid in a bus object path by <literal>_</literal> followed by a
+ <para>The escaping used will replace all characters which are
+ invalid in a bus object path by <literal>_</literal>, followed by a
hexadecimal value. As a special case, the empty string will be
replaced by a lone <literal>_</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para><function>sd_bus_path_encode_many()</function> works like
+ its counterpart <function>sd_bus_path_encode()</function>, but
+ takes a path template as argument and encodes multiple labels
+ according to its embedded directives. For each
+ <literal>%</literal> character found in the template, the caller
+ must provide a string via varargs, which will be encoded and
+ embedded at the position of the <literal>%</literal> character.
+ Any other character in the template is copied verbatim into the
+ encoded path.</para>
+
+ <para><function>sd_bus_path_decode_many()</function> does the
+ reverse of <function>sd_bus_path_encode_many()</function>. It
+ decodes the passed object path according to the given
+ path template. For each <literal>%</literal> character in the
+ template, the caller must provide an output storage
+ (<literal>char **</literal>) via varargs. The decoded label
+ will be stored there. Each <literal>%</literal> character will
+ only match the current label. It will never match across labels.
+ Furthermore, only a single directive is allowed per label.
+ If <literal>NULL</literal> is passed as output storage, the
+ label is verified but not returned to the caller.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
returns positive or 0, and a valid bus path in the return
argument. On success, <function>sd_bus_path_decode()</function>
returns a positive value if the prefixed matched, or 0 if it
- didn't. If the prefix matched the external identifier is returned
- in the return parameter. If it did not match NULL is returned in
+ did not. If the prefix matched, the external identifier is returned
+ in the return parameter. If it did not match, NULL is returned in
the return parameter. On failure, a negative errno-style error
number is returned by either function. The returned strings must
be
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>'d
+ <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>'d
by the caller.</para>
</refsect1>
- <refsect1>
- <title>Notes</title>
-
- <para><function>sd_bus_path_encode()</function> and
- <function>sd_bus_path_decode()</function> are available as a
- shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the
- <constant>libsystemd</constant> <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- file.</para>
- </refsect1>
+ <xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-bus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>