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19 
20 /**
21  * @file
22  * Public dictionary API.
23  * @deprecated
24  * AVDictionary is provided for compatibility with libav. It is both in
25  * implementation as well as API inefficient. It does not scale and is
26  * extremely slow with large dictionaries.
27  * It is recommended that new code uses our tree container from tree.c/h
28  * where applicable, which uses AVL trees to achieve O(log n) performance.
29  */
30 
31 #ifndef AVUTIL_DICT_H
32 #define AVUTIL_DICT_H
33 
34 /**
35  * @addtogroup lavu_dict AVDictionary
36  * @ingroup lavu_data
37  *
38  * @brief Simple key:value store
39  *
40  * @{
41  * Dictionaries are used for storing key:value pairs. To create
42  * an AVDictionary, simply pass an address of a NULL pointer to
43  * av_dict_set(). NULL can be used as an empty dictionary wherever
44  * a pointer to an AVDictionary is required.
45  * Use av_dict_get() to retrieve an entry or iterate over all
46  * entries and finally av_dict_free() to free the dictionary
47  * and all its contents.
48  *
49  * @code
50  * AVDictionary *d = NULL; // "create" an empty dictionary
51  * av_dict_set(&d, "foo", "bar", 0); // add an entry
52  *
53  * char *k = av_strdup("key"); // if your strings are already allocated,
54  * char *v = av_strdup("value"); // you can avoid copying them like this
55  * av_dict_set(&d, k, v, AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY | AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL);
56  *
57  * AVDictionaryEntry *t = NULL;
58  * while (t = av_dict_get(d, "", t, AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX)) {
59  * <....> // iterate over all entries in d
60  * }
61  *
62  * av_dict_free(&d);
63  * @endcode
64  *
65  */
66 
67 #define AV_DICT_MATCH_CASE 1
68 #define AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX 2
69 #define AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY 4 /**< Take ownership of a key that's been
70  allocated with av_malloc() and children. */
71 #define AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL 8 /**< Take ownership of a value that's been
72  allocated with av_malloc() and chilren. */
73 #define AV_DICT_DONT_OVERWRITE 16 ///< Don't overwrite existing entries.
74 #define AV_DICT_APPEND 32 /**< If the entry already exists, append to it. Note that no
75  delimiter is added, the strings are simply concatenated. */
76 
77 typedef struct AVDictionaryEntry {
78  char *key;
79  char *value;
81 
82 typedef struct AVDictionary AVDictionary;
83 
84 /**
85  * Get a dictionary entry with matching key.
86  *
87  * @param prev Set to the previous matching element to find the next.
88  * If set to NULL the first matching element is returned.
89  * @param flags Allows case as well as suffix-insensitive comparisons.
90  * @return Found entry or NULL, changing key or value leads to undefined behavior.
91  */
93 av_dict_get(AVDictionary *m, const char *key, const AVDictionaryEntry *prev, int flags);
94 
95 /**
96  * Get number of entries in dictionary.
97  *
98  * @param m dictionary
99  * @return number of entries in dictionary
100  */
101 int av_dict_count(const AVDictionary *m);
102 
103 /**
104  * Set the given entry in *pm, overwriting an existing entry.
105  *
106  * @param pm pointer to a pointer to a dictionary struct. If *pm is NULL
107  * a dictionary struct is allocated and put in *pm.
108  * @param key entry key to add to *pm (will be av_strduped depending on flags)
109  * @param value entry value to add to *pm (will be av_strduped depending on flags).
110  * Passing a NULL value will cause an existing entry to be deleted.
111  * @return >= 0 on success otherwise an error code <0
112  */
113 int av_dict_set(AVDictionary **pm, const char *key, const char *value, int flags);
114 
115 /**
116  * Copy entries from one AVDictionary struct into another.
117  * @param dst pointer to a pointer to a AVDictionary struct. If *dst is NULL,
118  * this function will allocate a struct for you and put it in *dst
119  * @param src pointer to source AVDictionary struct
120  * @param flags flags to use when setting entries in *dst
121  * @note metadata is read using the AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX flag
122  */
123 void av_dict_copy(AVDictionary **dst, AVDictionary *src, int flags);
124 
125 /**
126  * Free all the memory allocated for an AVDictionary struct
127  * and all keys and values.
128  */
129 void av_dict_free(AVDictionary **m);
130 
131 /**
132  * @}
133  */
134 
135 #endif /* AVUTIL_DICT_H */