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21 * Public dictionary API.
23 * AVDictionary is provided for compatibility with libav. It is both in
24 * implementation as well as API inefficient. It does not scale and is
25 * extremely slow with large dictionaries.
26 * It is recommended that new code uses our tree container from tree.c/h
27 * where applicable, which uses AVL trees to achieve O(log n) performance.
38 * @addtogroup lavu_dict AVDictionary
41 * @brief Simple key:value store
44 * Dictionaries are used for storing key:value pairs. To create
45 * an AVDictionary, simply pass an address of a NULL pointer to
46 * av_dict_set(). NULL can be used as an empty dictionary wherever
47 * a pointer to an AVDictionary is required.
48 * Use av_dict_get() to retrieve an entry or iterate over all
49 * entries and finally av_dict_free() to free the dictionary
50 * and all its contents.
53 AVDictionary *d = NULL; // "create" an empty dictionary
54 AVDictionaryEntry *t = NULL;
56 av_dict_set(&d, "foo", "bar", 0); // add an entry
58 char *k = av_strdup("key"); // if your strings are already allocated,
59 char *v = av_strdup("value"); // you can avoid copying them like this
60 av_dict_set(&d, k, v, AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY | AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL);
62 while (t = av_dict_get(d, "", t, AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX)) {
63 <....> // iterate over all entries in d
69 #define AV_DICT_MATCH_CASE 1 /**< Only get an entry with exact-case key match. Only relevant in av_dict_get(). */
70 #define AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX 2 /**< Return first entry in a dictionary whose first part corresponds to the search key,
71 ignoring the suffix of the found key string. Only relevant in av_dict_get(). */
72 #define AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY 4 /**< Take ownership of a key that's been
73 allocated with av_malloc() or another memory allocation function. */
74 #define AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL 8 /**< Take ownership of a value that's been
75 allocated with av_malloc() or another memory allocation function. */
76 #define AV_DICT_DONT_OVERWRITE 16 ///< Don't overwrite existing entries.
77 #define AV_DICT_APPEND 32 /**< If the entry already exists, append to it. Note that no
78 delimiter is added, the strings are simply concatenated. */
80 typedef struct AVDictionaryEntry {
85 typedef struct AVDictionary AVDictionary;
88 * Get a dictionary entry with matching key.
90 * The returned entry key or value must not be changed, or it will
91 * cause undefined behavior.
93 * To iterate through all the dictionary entries, you can set the matching key
94 * to the null string "" and set the AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX flag.
96 * @param prev Set to the previous matching element to find the next.
97 * If set to NULL the first matching element is returned.
98 * @param key matching key
99 * @param flags a collection of AV_DICT_* flags controlling how the entry is retrieved
100 * @return found entry or NULL in case no matching entry was found in the dictionary
102 AVDictionaryEntry *av_dict_get(const AVDictionary *m, const char *key,
103 const AVDictionaryEntry *prev, int flags);
106 * Get number of entries in dictionary.
108 * @param m dictionary
109 * @return number of entries in dictionary
111 int av_dict_count(const AVDictionary *m);
114 * Set the given entry in *pm, overwriting an existing entry.
116 * Note: If AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY or AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL is set,
117 * these arguments will be freed on error.
119 * Warning: Adding a new entry to a dictionary invalidates all existing entries
120 * previously returned with av_dict_get.
122 * @param pm pointer to a pointer to a dictionary struct. If *pm is NULL
123 * a dictionary struct is allocated and put in *pm.
124 * @param key entry key to add to *pm (will be av_strduped depending on flags)
125 * @param value entry value to add to *pm (will be av_strduped depending on flags).
126 * Passing a NULL value will cause an existing entry to be deleted.
127 * @return >= 0 on success otherwise an error code <0
129 int av_dict_set(AVDictionary **pm, const char *key, const char *value, int flags);
132 * Convenience wrapper for av_dict_set that converts the value to a string
135 * Note: If AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY is set, key will be freed on error.
137 int av_dict_set_int(AVDictionary **pm, const char *key, int64_t value, int flags);
140 * Parse the key/value pairs list and add the parsed entries to a dictionary.
142 * In case of failure, all the successfully set entries are stored in
143 * *pm. You may need to manually free the created dictionary.
145 * @param key_val_sep a 0-terminated list of characters used to separate
147 * @param pairs_sep a 0-terminated list of characters used to separate
148 * two pairs from each other
149 * @param flags flags to use when adding to dictionary.
150 * AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY and AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL
151 * are ignored since the key/value tokens will always
153 * @return 0 on success, negative AVERROR code on failure
155 int av_dict_parse_string(AVDictionary **pm, const char *str,
156 const char *key_val_sep, const char *pairs_sep,
160 * Copy entries from one AVDictionary struct into another.
161 * @param dst pointer to a pointer to a AVDictionary struct. If *dst is NULL,
162 * this function will allocate a struct for you and put it in *dst
163 * @param src pointer to source AVDictionary struct
164 * @param flags flags to use when setting entries in *dst
165 * @note metadata is read using the AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX flag
166 * @return 0 on success, negative AVERROR code on failure. If dst was allocated
167 * by this function, callers should free the associated memory.
169 int av_dict_copy(AVDictionary **dst, const AVDictionary *src, int flags);
172 * Free all the memory allocated for an AVDictionary struct
173 * and all keys and values.
175 void av_dict_free(AVDictionary **m);
178 * Get dictionary entries as a string.
180 * Create a string containing dictionary's entries.
181 * Such string may be passed back to av_dict_parse_string().
182 * @note String is escaped with backslashes ('\').
184 * @param[in] m dictionary
185 * @param[out] buffer Pointer to buffer that will be allocated with string containg entries.
186 * Buffer must be freed by the caller when is no longer needed.
187 * @param[in] key_val_sep character used to separate key from value
188 * @param[in] pairs_sep character used to separate two pairs from each other
189 * @return >= 0 on success, negative on error
190 * @warning Separators cannot be neither '\\' nor '\0'. They also cannot be the same.
192 int av_dict_get_string(const AVDictionary *m, char **buffer,
193 const char key_val_sep, const char pairs_sep);
199 #endif /* AVUTIL_DICT_H */