VLC 4.0.0-dev
configuration.h File Reference
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Data Structures

struct  vlc_param
 

Macros

#define CONFIG_FILE   "vlcrc"
 

Functions

struct vlc_paramvlc_param_Find (const char *name)
 Looks up a configuration parameter by name. More...
 
int vlc_param_SetString (struct vlc_param *param, const char *value)
 
int config_AutoSaveConfigFile (libvlc_int_t *)
 
void config_Free (struct vlc_param *, size_t)
 Destroys an array of configuration items. More...
 
void config_CmdLineEarlyScan (libvlc_int_t *, int, const char *[])
 Perform early scan of arguments for a small subset of simple options. More...
 
int config_LoadCmdLine (libvlc_int_t *, int, const char *[], int *)
 Parse command line for configuration options. More...
 
int config_LoadConfigFile (libvlc_int_t *)
 
bool config_PrintHelp (libvlc_int_t *)
 Checks for help command line options such as –help or –version. More...
 
void config_Lock (void)
 
void config_Unlock (void)
 
int config_SortConfig (void)
 Index the configuration items by name for faster lookups. More...
 
void config_UnsortConfig (void)
 
bool config_IsSafe (const char *)
 
char * config_GetLibDir (void)
 Gets the arch-specific installation directory. More...
 

Macro Definition Documentation

◆ CONFIG_FILE

#define CONFIG_FILE   "vlcrc"

Function Documentation

◆ config_AutoSaveConfigFile()

int config_AutoSaveConfigFile ( libvlc_int_t p_this)

◆ config_CmdLineEarlyScan()

void config_CmdLineEarlyScan ( libvlc_int_t p_this,
int  argc,
const char *  argv[] 
)

Perform early scan of arguments for a small subset of simple options.

Before proper full processing can be done, which requires full knowledge of all available options, we have a need to perform a preliminary check for a few options that affect plugin loading. This is because the full option set consists of a core subset plus various plugin subsets and we thus need to load plugin data to know the plugin subsets, but there are a few core options that actually affect loading of plugin data.

Note that we want to be cautious about doing too much here. Firstly simply to avoid duplicating effort done later in the proper full processing step. Additionally though because fundamentally the very notion of a preliminary scan is problematic in terms of taking "correct" (or at least consistent) action in the face of certain use or misuse of options. Consider the fact that it is standard practice with option arguments that take a value, should a value not be provided within the same argument, to just consume the next argument as the option's value, no matter whether or not the next argument might "look" like an option itself (or an "early terminator"). Such is the behaviour of getopt. (It may perhaps seem wrong to do things that way, but that's how it works; it would alternatively be wrong for getopt in general to prevent options from taking values that just happen to resemble these things; and besides, bad consumption will only occur through bad option use which is fair to expect to cause incorrect results and in many cases ideally would be caught early by validation checks on option values anyway). So, a preliminary scan, by not knowing the full option set and not following the standard parsing rules (since it can't), naturally introduces risks of "incorrect" or "inconsistent" interpretation of the set of arguments, at least wrt. the later full/proper processing, and the more that we do, the more such incorrect/inconsistent processing scenarios we introduce. Furthermore consider the additional complication of short option "sets" (which is a short option argument involving multiple characters like -abc). In a short option set only the last option in the set (which is not necessarily its last character) can be one that takes a value, with any characters coming after it (if any) taken as its option value (if none then the next argument is consumed instead). In a preliminary scan where we do not know the full set of available short options, we can risk misinterpreting characters in short option sets as options when they are meant to be consumed as an option value. Thus it is very problematic to properly try to deal with an option like --help, which comes with the short option -h as well as --no-help, here in a preliminary scan, which is unfortunate because it might make a nice optimisation if we could.

Considering this discussion, it is simply best that we keep option checks here to an absolute bare minimum of just the three plugin data related ones that we have no choice but to scan for early, and we must put up with a minimal amount of possible incorrect/inconsistent interpretation as unavoidable. (Though we could add some code after the full scan to determine whether or not the wrong action took place and issue a warning if so).

Parameters
p_thisobject to write command line options as variables to
argcnumber of command line arguments
argvcommand line arguments

References arg, and VLC_UNUSED.

Referenced by libvlc_InternalInit().

◆ config_Free()

void config_Free ( struct vlc_param tab,
size_t  confsize 
)

Destroys an array of configuration items.

Parameters
configstart of array of items
confsizenumber of items in the array

References module_config_t::i_type, IsConfigStringType, vlc_param::item, module_config_t::list, module_config_t::list_count, module_config_t::list_text, module_config_t::psz, vlc_param::str, and vlc_param::value.

Referenced by vlc_plugin_destroy().

◆ config_GetLibDir()

char * config_GetLibDir ( void  )

Gets the arch-specific installation directory.

This function determines the directory containing the architecture-specific installed asset files (such as executable plugins and compiled byte code).

Returns
a heap-allocated string (use free() to release it), or NULL on error

Gets the arch-specific installation directory.

Returns
a string (always succeeds).

References cached_path, config_GetLibDir(), config_GetLibDirOnce(), config_getLibraryDirReal(), config_GetRealDir(), FromLocaleDup, getenv(), and strdup().

Referenced by config_GetDataDir(), config_GetHomeDir(), config_GetLibDir(), config_GetLibDirRaw(), and config_GetSysPath().

◆ config_IsSafe()

bool config_IsSafe ( const char *  name)

References name, vlc_param::safe, and vlc_param_Find().

Referenced by var_OptionParse().

◆ config_LoadCmdLine()

int config_LoadCmdLine ( libvlc_int_t p_this,
int  i_argc,
const char *  ppsz_argv[],
int *  pindex 
)

Parse command line for configuration options.

Now that the module_bank has been initialized, we can dynamically generate the longopts structure used by getops. We have to do it this way because we don't know (and don't want to know) in advance the configuration options used (ie. exported) by each module.

Parameters
p_thisobject to write command line options as variables to
i_argcnumber of command line arguments
ppsz_argscommand line arguments [IN/OUT]
pindexindex of the first non-option argument [OUT]
Returns
0 on success, -1 on error.

References _, asprintf(), CONFIG_CLASS, config_FindConfig(), CONFIG_ITEM, CONFIG_ITEM_BOOL, CONFIG_ITEM_FLOAT, CONFIG_ITEM_INTEGER, CONFIG_ITEM_STRING, container_of, module_value_t::f, vlc_option::flag, vlc_option::has_arg, module_value_t::i, vlc_param::i, module_config_t::i_type, i_type, vlc_option::is_obsolete, vlc_param::item, module_config_t::max, module_config_t::min, vlc_option::name, name, vlc_param::obsolete, p, module_config_t::psz_name, psz_name, vlc_param::shortname, state, strdup(), strtoll(), TS_GREEN, TS_RED_BOLD, TS_RESET, TS_YELLOW, TS_YELLOW_BOLD, vlc_option::val, var_Change(), var_Create(), var_SetBool(), var_SetFloat(), var_SetInteger(), var_SetString(), vlc_alloc(), vlc_atof_c(), vlc_getopt_long(), vlc_jaro_winkler(), vlc_plugins, VLC_VAR_BOOL, VLC_VAR_FLOAT, VLC_VAR_INTEGER, VLC_VAR_SETMINMAX, and VLC_VAR_STRING.

Referenced by libvlc_InternalInit().

◆ config_LoadConfigFile()

◆ config_Lock()

void config_Lock ( void  )

References config_lock, and vlc_mutex_lock().

Referenced by config_LoadConfigFile().

◆ config_PrintHelp()

bool config_PrintHelp ( libvlc_int_t obj)

Checks for help command line options such as –help or –version.

If one is found, print the corresponding text.

Returns
true if a command line options caused some help message to be printed, false otherwise.

References Help(), ListModules(), var_Create(), var_InheritBool(), var_InheritString(), var_SetBool(), Version(), and VLC_VAR_BOOL.

Referenced by libvlc_InternalInit().

◆ config_SortConfig()

int config_SortConfig ( void  )

Index the configuration items by name for faster lookups.

References confcmp(), config, CONFIG_ITEM, vlc_param::i, module_config_t::i_type, vlc_param::item, p, unlikely, vlc_alloc(), VLC_ENOMEM, vlc_plugins, and VLC_SUCCESS.

Referenced by module_InitBank(), and module_LoadPlugins().

◆ config_Unlock()

void config_Unlock ( void  )

References config_lock, and vlc_mutex_unlock().

Referenced by config_LoadConfigFile().

◆ config_UnsortConfig()

void config_UnsortConfig ( void  )

References config.

Referenced by module_EndBank(), and module_LoadPlugins().

◆ vlc_param_Find()

struct vlc_param * vlc_param_Find ( const char *  name)

◆ vlc_param_SetString()