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
* @stable
*/
typedef UBool
UDataMemoryIsAcceptable(void *context,
const char *type, const char *name,
const 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.
* @stable
*/
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.
* @stable
*/
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.
* @stable
*/
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.
* @stable
*/
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.
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
udata_getInfo(UDataMemory *pData, UDataInfo *pInfo);
/**
* This function bypasses the normal ICU data loading process and
* allows you to force ICU's system data to come out of a user-specified
* area in memory.
*
* The format of this data is that of the icu common data file, as is
* generated by the pkgdata tool with mode=common or mode=dll.
* You can read in a whole common mode file and pass the address to the start of the
* data, or (with the appropriate link options) pass in the pointer to
* the data that has been loaded from a dll by the operating system,
* as shown in this code:
*
* extern const void * U_IMPORT ENTRY_POINT_NAME;
* // ENTRY_POINT_NAME is same as entry point specified to pkgdata tool
* UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;
*
* udata_setCommonData(&U_ICUDATA_ENTRY_POINT, &status);
*
*
* Warning: ICU must NOT have even attempted to access its data yet
* when this call is made, or U_USING_DEFAULT_ERROR [non-failing] will
* be returned. Be careful of UnicodeStrings in static initialization which
* may attempt to load a converter (use the UNICODE_STRING(x) macro instead).
*
* This function has no effect on application (non ICU) data. See udata_setAppData()
* for similar functionality for application data.
*
* @param data pointer to ICU common data
* @param err outgoing error status U_USING_DEFAULT_ERROR, U_UNSUPPORTED_ERROR
* @stable
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
udata_setCommonData(const void *data, UErrorCode *err);
/**
* This function bypasses the normal ICU data loading process for application-specific
* data and allows you to force the it to come out of a user-specified
* pointer.
*
* The format of this data is that of the icu common data file, like 'icudata.dat'
* The application must read in or otherwise construct an image of the data and then
* pass the address of it to this function.
*
*
* Warning: setAppData will fail with a U_USING_DEFAULT_ERROR error if
* data with the specifed path that has already been opened, or
* if setAppData with the same path has already been called.
* Any such calls to setAppData will have no effect.
*
*
* @param path pointer to the path name by which the application will refer
* to (open) this data.
* @param data pointer to the data
* @param err outgoing error status U_USING_DEFAULT_ERROR, U_UNSUPPORTED_ERROR
* @draft ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
udata_setAppData(const char *path, const void *data, UErrorCode *err);
U_CDECL_END
#endif