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* file name: udata.h
* encoding: US-ASCII
* tab size: 8 (not used)
* indentation:4
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* created on: 1999oct25
* created by: Markus W. Scherer
*/
#ifndef __UDATA_H__
#define __UDATA_H__
#include "utypes.h"
/**
* Information about data memory.
* This structure may grow in the future, indicated by the
* size
field.
*
*
The platform data property fields help determine if a data * file can be efficiently used on a given machine. * The particular fields are of importance only if the data * is affected by the properties - if there is integer data * with word sizes > 1 byte, char* text, or UChar* text.
* *The implementation for the udata_open[Choice]()
* functions may reject data based on the value in isBigEndian
.
* No other field is used by the udata
API implementation.
The dataFormat
may be used to identify
* the kind of data, e.g. a converter table.
The formatVersion
field should be used to
* make sure that the format can be interpreted.
* I may be a good idea to check only for the one or two highest
* of the version elements to allow the data memory to
* get more or somewhat rearranged contents, for as long
* as the using code can still interpret the older contents.
The dataVersion
field is intended to be a
* common place to store the source version of the data;
* for data from the Unicode character database, this could
* reflect the Unicode version.
udata_openChoice()
.
* @param type The type of the data as passed into udata_openChoice()
.
* It may be NULL
.
* @param name The name of the data as passed into udata_openChoice()
.
* @param pInfo A pointer to the UDataInfo
structure
* of data that has been loaded and will be returned
* by udata_openChoice()
if this function
* returns TRUE
.
* @return TRUE if the current data memory is acceptable
*/
typedef bool_t
UDataMemoryIsAcceptable(void *context,
const char *type, const char *name,
UDataInfo *pInfo);
/**
* Convenience function.
* This function works the same as udata_openChoice
* except that any data that matches the type and name
* is assumed to be acceptable.
*/
U_CAPI UDataMemory * U_EXPORT2
udata_open(const char *path, const char *type, const char *name,
UErrorCode *pErrorCode);
/**
* Data loading function.
* This function is used to find and load efficiently data for
* ICU and applications using ICU.
* It provides an abstract interface that allows to specify a data
* type and name to find and load the data.
*
* The implementation depends on platform properties and user preferences * and may involve loading shared libraries (DLLs), mapping * files into memory, or fopen()/fread() files. * It may also involve using static memory or database queries etc. * Several or all data items may be combined into one entity * (DLL, memory-mappable file).
* *The data is always preceded by a header that includes
* a UDataInfo
structure.
* The caller's isAcceptable()
function is called to make
* sure that the data is useful. It may be called several times if it
* rejects the data and there is more than one location with data
* matching the type and name.
If path==NULL
, then ICU data is loaded.
* Otherwise, it is separated into a basename and a basename-less path string.
* If the path string is empty, then u_getDataDirectory()
* is set in its place.
* When data is loaded from files or DLLs (shared libraries) and
* may be stored in common files, then the data finding is roughly as follows:
*
NULL
for ICU data.
* @param type A string that specifies the type of data to be loaded.
* For example, resource bundles are loaded with type "res",
* conversion tables with type "cnv".
* This may be NULL
or empty.
* @param name A string that specifies the name of the data.
* @param isAcceptable This function is called to verify that loaded data
* is useful for the client code. If it returns FALSE
* for all data items, then udata_openChoice()
* will return with an error.
* @param context Arbitrary parameter to be passed into isAcceptable.
* @param pErrorCode An ICU UErrorCode parameter. It must not be NULL
.
* @return A pointer (handle) to a data memory object, or NULL
* if an error occurs. Call udata_getMemory()
* to get a pointer to the actual data.
*/
U_CAPI UDataMemory * U_EXPORT2
udata_openChoice(const char *path, const char *type, const char *name,
UDataMemoryIsAcceptable *isAcceptable, void *context,
UErrorCode *pErrorCode);
/**
* Close the data memory.
* This function must be called to allow the system to
* release resources associated with this data memory.
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
udata_close(UDataMemory *pData);
/**
* Get the pointer to the actual data inside the data memory.
* The data is read-only.
*/
U_CAPI const void * U_EXPORT2
udata_getMemory(UDataMemory *pData);
/**
* Get the information from the data memory header.
* This allows to get access to the header containing
* platform data properties etc. which is not part of
* the data itself and can therefore not be accessed
* via the pointer that udata_getMemory()
returns.
*
* @param pData pointer to the data memory object
* @param pInfo pointer to a UDataInfo object;
* its size
field must be set correctly,
* typically to sizeof(UDataInfo)
.
*
* *pInfo
will be filled with the UDataInfo structure
* in the data memory object. If this structure is smaller than
* pInfo->size
, then the size
will be
* adjusted and only part of the structure will be filled.
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
udata_getInfo(UDataMemory *pData, UDataInfo *pInfo);
#endif