gstreamer/gst/gstregistrybinary.h
Stefan Kost 14999bf0f5 gst/gstregistrybinary.*: Implement no-mmap alternative for registry reading. Do code cleanups.
Original commit message from CVS:
* gst/gstregistrybinary.c: (gst_registry_binary_write_cache),
(gst_registry_binary_load_pad_template),
(gst_registry_binary_load_plugin),
(gst_registry_binary_read_cache):
* gst/gstregistrybinary.h:
Implement no-mmap alternative for registry reading. Do code cleanups.
Add more comments about avoiding strdups for all text data. Comments
welcome.
2007-04-26 07:32:08 +00:00

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/* GStreamer
* Copyright (C) 2006 Josep Torra <josep@fluendo.com>
* Copyright (C) 2006 Mathieu Garcia <matthieu@fluendo.com>
* Copyright (C) 2006 Stefan Kost <ensonic@sonicpulse.de>
*
* gstregistrybinary.h: Header for registry handling
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Library General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the
* Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
* Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*/
/* SUGGESTIONS AND TODO :
** ====================
** - Use a compressed registry, but would induce performance loss
** - Encrypt the registry, for security purpose, but would also reduce performances
*/
#ifndef __GST_REGISTRYBINARY_H__
#define __GST_REGISTRYBINARY_H__
#include <gst/gstpad.h>
#include <gst/gstregistry.h>
/*
* GST_MAGIC_BINARY_REGISTRY_STR:
*
* A tag, written at the beginning of the file
*/
#define GST_MAGIC_BINARY_REGISTRY_STR "\xc0\xde\xf0\x0d"
/*
* GST_MAGIC_BINARY_REGISTRY_LEN:
*
* length of the header tag.
*/
#define GST_MAGIC_BINARY_REGISTRY_LEN (4)
/*
* GST_MAGIC_BINARY_VERSION_LEN:
*
* length of the version string.
*/
#define GST_MAGIC_BINARY_VERSION_LEN (64)
typedef struct _GstBinaryRegistryMagic
{
gchar magic[GST_MAGIC_BINARY_REGISTRY_LEN];
gchar version[GST_MAGIC_BINARY_VERSION_LEN];
} GstBinaryRegistryMagic;
/*
* we reference strings directly from the plugins and in this case set CONST to
* avoid freeing them
*/
enum {
GST_BINARY_REGISTRY_FLAG_NONE = 0,
GST_BINARY_REGISTRY_FLAG_CONST = 1
};
/*
* GstBinaryChunk:
*
* Header for binary blobs
*/
typedef struct _GstBinaryChunk
{
gpointer data;
guint size;
guint flags;
gboolean align;
} GstBinaryChunk;
/*
* GstBinaryPluginElement:
*
* @nfeatures: says how many binary plugin feature structures we will have
* right after the structure itself.
*
* A structure containing (staticely) every information needed for a plugin
*/
typedef struct _GstBinaryPluginElement
{
gulong file_size;
gulong file_mtime;
guint nfeatures;
} GstBinaryPluginElement;
/*
* GstBinaryPluginFeature:
* @rank: rank of the feature
*
* A structure containing the plugin features
*/
typedef struct _GstBinaryPluginFeature
{
gulong rank;
} GstBinaryPluginFeature;
/*
* GstBinaryElementFactory:
* @npadtemplates: stores the number of GstBinaryPadTemplate structures
* following the structure
* @ninterfaces: stores the number of interface names following the structure
* @nuriprotocols: stores the number of protocol strings following the structure
*
* A structure containing the element factory fields
*/
typedef struct _GstBinaryElementFactory
{
GstBinaryPluginFeature plugin_feature;
guint npadtemplates;
guint ninterfaces;
guint nuriprotocols;
} GstBinaryElementFactory;
/*
* GstBinaryTypeFindFactory:
* @nextensions: stores the number of typefind extensions
*
* A structure containing the element factory fields
*/
typedef struct _GstBinaryTypeFindFactory
{
GstBinaryPluginFeature plugin_feature;
guint nextensions;
} GstBinaryTypeFindFactory;
/*
* GstBinaryPadTemplate:
*
* A structure containing the static pad templates of a plugin feature
*/
typedef struct _GstBinaryPadTemplate
{
guint direction; /* Either 0:"sink" or 1:"src" */
GstPadPresence presence;
} GstBinaryPadTemplate;
/* Function prototypes */
gboolean gst_registry_binary_write_cache(GstRegistry *registry, const char *location);
gboolean gst_registry_binary_read_cache(GstRegistry *registry, const char *location);
#endif /* !__GST_REGISTRYBINARY_H__ */