notmuch/sprinter.h
Jani Nikula 1358f93a9f sprinter: clarify separator documentation
For text printers, the separator is a syntactic element.
2012-12-18 17:03:24 -04:00

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#ifndef NOTMUCH_SPRINTER_H
#define NOTMUCH_SPRINTER_H
/* Necessary for notmuch_bool_t */
#include "notmuch-client.h"
/* Structure printer interface. This is used to create output
* structured as maps (with key/value pairs), lists and primitives
* (strings, integers and booleans).
*/
typedef struct sprinter {
/* Start a new map/dictionary structure. This should be followed by
* a sequence of alternating calls to map_key and one of the
* value-printing functions until the map is ended by end.
*/
void (*begin_map) (struct sprinter *);
/* Start a new list/array structure.
*/
void (*begin_list) (struct sprinter *);
/* End the last opened list or map structure.
*/
void (*end) (struct sprinter *);
/* Print one string/integer/boolean/null element (possibly inside
* a list or map, followed or preceded by separators). For string
* and string_len, the char * must be UTF-8 encoded. string_len
* allows non-terminated strings and strings with embedded NULs
* (though the handling of the latter is format-dependent). For
* string (but not string_len) the string pointer passed may be
* NULL.
*/
void (*string) (struct sprinter *, const char *);
void (*string_len) (struct sprinter *, const char *, size_t);
void (*integer) (struct sprinter *, int);
void (*boolean) (struct sprinter *, notmuch_bool_t);
void (*null) (struct sprinter *);
/* Print the key of a map's key/value pair. The char * must be UTF-8
* encoded.
*/
void (*map_key) (struct sprinter *, const char *);
/* Insert a separator (usually extra whitespace). For the text
* printers, this is a syntactic separator. For the structured
* printers, this is for improved readability without affecting
* the abstract syntax of the structure being printed. For JSON,
* this could simply be a line break.
*/
void (*separator) (struct sprinter *);
/* Set the current string prefix. This only affects the text
* printer, which will print this string, followed by a colon,
* before any string. For other printers, this does nothing.
*/
void (*set_prefix) (struct sprinter *, const char *);
/* True if this is the special-cased plain text printer.
*/
notmuch_bool_t is_text_printer;
} sprinter_t;
/* Create a new unstructured printer that emits the default text format
* for "notmuch search". */
struct sprinter *
sprinter_text_create (const void *ctx, FILE *stream);
/* Create a new structure printer that emits JSON. */
struct sprinter *
sprinter_json_create (const void *ctx, FILE *stream);
/* Create a new structure printer that emits S-Expressions. */
struct sprinter *
sprinter_sexp_create (const void *ctx, FILE *stream);
#endif // NOTMUCH_SPRINTER_H