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authorMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2011-07-09 02:06:40 +0200
committerMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2011-07-09 02:06:40 +0200
commit58257ea29e0716a50dc742959de876606ed22416 (patch)
treea4949244816d4eb7a4231b1798b54bea4a79d4e5 /libavutil/dict.h
parent971c04066c601bdd38ed5e8eb585d2f5ba211fe2 (diff)
parentbda168d2b0210dda84f1a9d32c8aa4653d1674d5 (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'qatar/master'
* qatar/master: (28 commits) mp3enc: write a xing frame containing number of frames in the file lavf: update AVStream.nb_frames when muxing. ffmpeg: remove unused variables from InputStream. doc: update ffmpeg -ar and -ac documentation to reflect reality. ffmpeg: remove pointless if (nb_input_files) ffmpeg: merge input_files_ts_offset into input_files. ffmpeg: merge input_codecs into input_streams. ffmpeg: drop AV prefixes from struct names. ffmpeg: deprecate loop_input and loop_output options gif: add loop private option. img2: add loop private option. AVOptions: in av_opt_find() don't return named constants unless unit is specified. x11grab: replace undocumented nomouse hackery with a private option. dict: extend documentation. lls: whitespace cosmetics docs: Use proper markup for a literal command line option docs: Remove a remark that isn't relevant any longer docs: Explain how to regenerate import libraries with MSVC tools docs: Mention that libraries for MSVC can be built with a cross compiler docs: Remove old docs that mention setting up a build environment with lib.exe ... Conflicts: doc/ffmpeg.texi doc/general.texi ffmpeg.c libavcodec/Makefile libavcodec/dnxhddata.c libavformat/mp3enc.c libavformat/utils.c libavutil/Makefile tests/copycooker.sh Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Diffstat (limited to 'libavutil/dict.h')
-rw-r--r--libavutil/dict.h39
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/libavutil/dict.h b/libavutil/dict.h
index 3982b0dae9..84f58ec473 100644
--- a/libavutil/dict.h
+++ b/libavutil/dict.h
@@ -31,10 +31,42 @@
#ifndef AVUTIL_DICT_H
#define AVUTIL_DICT_H
+/**
+ * @defgroup dict_api Public Dictionary API
+ * @{
+ * Dictionaries are used for storing key:value pairs. To create
+ * an AVDictionary, simply pass an address of a NULL pointer to
+ * av_dict_set(). NULL can be used as an empty dictionary wherever
+ * a pointer to an AVDictionary is required.
+ * Use av_dict_get() to retrieve an entry or iterate over all
+ * entries and finally av_dict_free() to free the dictionary
+ * and all its contents.
+ *
+ * @code
+ * AVDictionary *d = NULL; // "create" an empty dictionary
+ * av_dict_set(&d, "foo", "bar", 0); // add an entry
+ *
+ * char *k = av_strdup("key"); // if your strings are already allocated,
+ * char *v = av_strdup("value"); // you can avoid copying them like this
+ * av_dict_set(&d, k, v, AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY | AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL);
+ *
+ * AVDictionaryEntry *t = NULL;
+ * while (t = av_dict_get(d, "", t, AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX)) {
+ * <....> // iterate over all entries in d
+ * }
+ *
+ * av_dict_free(&d);
+ * @endcode
+ *
+ * @}
+ */
+
#define AV_DICT_MATCH_CASE 1
#define AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX 2
-#define AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY 4
-#define AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL 8
+#define AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY 4 /**< Take ownership of a key that's been
+ allocated with av_malloc() and children. */
+#define AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL 8 /**< Take ownership of a value that's been
+ allocated with av_malloc() and chilren. */
#define AV_DICT_DONT_OVERWRITE 16 ///< Don't overwrite existing entries.
#define AV_DICT_APPEND 32 /**< If the entry already exists, append to it. Note that no
delimiter is added, the strings are simply concatenated. */
@@ -80,7 +112,8 @@ int av_dict_set(AVDictionary **pm, const char *key, const char *value, int flags
void av_dict_copy(AVDictionary **dst, AVDictionary *src, int flags);
/**
- * Free all the memory allocated for an AVDictionary struct.
+ * Free all the memory allocated for an AVDictionary struct
+ * and all keys and values.
*/
void av_dict_free(AVDictionary **m);