/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */ /* * This file is part of the LibreOffice project. * * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. * * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice: * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed * with this work for additional information regarding copyright * ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache * License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file * except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of * the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 . */ #ifndef INCLUDED_RTL_BOOTSTRAP_H #define INCLUDED_RTL_BOOTSTRAP_H #include #include #include #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif /** @file The described concept provides a platform independent way to access minimum bootstrap settings for every application by explicitly or implicitly passing the values to the application.

MULTI-LEVEL STRATEGY FOR RETRIEVAL OF BOOTSTRAP VALUES :

The 1st level is tried first. On failure, the next level is tried. Every query starts at the first level again, so that one setting may be taken from the 3rd and one from the 1st level.

1st level: explicitly set variables via rtl_bootstrap_set() 2nd level: command line arguments. A "-env:SETTINGNAME=value" is given on command line. This allows to give an application a certain setting, even if an ini-file exists (especially useful for e.g. daemons that want to start an executable with dynamical changing settings).

3rd level: environment variables. The application tries to get the setting from the environment.

4th level: executable ini-file. Every application looks for an ini-file. The filename defaults to /absolute/path/to/executable[rc|.ini] without .bin or .exe suffix. The ini-filename can be set by the special command line parameter '-env:INIFILENAME=/absolute/path/to/inifile' at runtime or it may be set at compiletime by an API-call.

5th level: URE_BOOTSTRAP ini-file. If the bootstrap variable URE_BOOTSTRAP expands to the URL of an ini-file, that ini-file is searched.

6th level: default. An application can have some default settings decided at compile time, which allow the application to run even with no deployment settings.

If neither of the above levels leads to an successful retrieval of the value (no default possible), the application may fail to start.

NAMING CONVENTIONS

Naming conventions for names of bootstrap values : Names may only include characters, that are allowed characters for environment variables. This excludes '.', ' ', ';', ':' and any non-ascii character. Names are case insensitive.

An ini-file is only allowed to have one section, which must be named '[Bootstrap]'. The section may be omitted. The section name does not appear in the name of the corresponding environment variable or commandline arg. Values maybe arbitrary unicode strings, they must be encoded in UTF8.

Example:

in an ini-file: [Sectionname] Name=value

as commandline arg: -env:Name=value

as environment setenv Name value set Name=value

SPECIAL VARIABLES:

  • INIFILENAME
    This variable allows to set the inifilename. This makes only sense, if the filename is different than the executable file name. It must be given on command line. If it is given the executable ini-file is ignored.
*/ /** may be called by an application to set an ini-filename.

Must be called before rtl_bootstrap_get(). May not be called twice. If it is never called, the filename is based on the name of the executable, with the suffix ".ini" on Windows or "rc" on Unix. @param pFileUri URL of the inifile with path but WITHOUT suffix (.ini or rc) */ SAL_DLLPUBLIC void SAL_CALL rtl_bootstrap_setIniFileName( rtl_uString *pFileUri ); /** @param ppValue out parameter. Contains always a valid rtl_uString pointer. @param pName The name of the bootstrap setting to be retrieved. @param pDefault maybe NULL. If once the default is returned, successive calls always return this default value, even when called with different defaults. @return sal_True, when a value could be retrieved successfully, sal_False, when none of the 4 methods gave a value. ppValue then contains ane empty string. When a pDefault value is given, the function returns always sal_True. */ SAL_DLLPUBLIC sal_Bool SAL_CALL rtl_bootstrap_get( rtl_uString *pName, rtl_uString **ppValue, rtl_uString *pDefault ); /** Sets a bootstrap parameter. @param pName name of bootstrap parameter @param pValue value of bootstrap parameter */ SAL_DLLPUBLIC void SAL_CALL rtl_bootstrap_set( rtl_uString * pName, rtl_uString * pValue ); typedef void * rtlBootstrapHandle; /** Opens a bootstrap argument container. @param pIniName [in] The name of the ini-file to use, if NULL defaults to the executables name @return Handle for a bootstrap argument container */ SAL_DLLPUBLIC rtlBootstrapHandle SAL_CALL rtl_bootstrap_args_open(rtl_uString * pIniName); /** Closes a bootstrap argument container. @param handle [in] The handle got by rtl_bootstrap_args_open() */ SAL_DLLPUBLIC void SAL_CALL rtl_bootstrap_args_close(rtlBootstrapHandle handle) SAL_THROW_EXTERN_C(); /** @param handle [in] The handle got by rtl_bootstrap_args_open() @param pName [in] The name of the variable to be retrieved @param ppValue [out] The result of the retrieval. *ppValue may be null in case of failure. @param pDefault [in] The default value for the retrieval, may be NULL @return The status of the retrieval, sal_True on success. */ SAL_DLLPUBLIC sal_Bool SAL_CALL rtl_bootstrap_get_from_handle( rtlBootstrapHandle handle, rtl_uString *pName, rtl_uString **ppValue, rtl_uString *pDefault); /** Returns the name of the inifile associated with this handle. @param handle [in] The handle got by rtl_bootstrap_args_open() @param ppIniName [out] contains after the call the name of the ini-filename. */ SAL_DLLPUBLIC void SAL_CALL rtl_bootstrap_get_iniName_from_handle( rtlBootstrapHandle handle, rtl_uString ** ppIniName); /** Expands a macro using bootstrap variables. @param handle [in] The handle got by rtl_bootstrap_args_open() @param macro [inout] The macro to be expanded */ SAL_DLLPUBLIC void SAL_CALL rtl_bootstrap_expandMacros_from_handle( rtlBootstrapHandle handle, rtl_uString ** macro ); /** Expands a macro using default bootstrap variables. @param macro [inout] The macro to be expanded */ SAL_DLLPUBLIC void SAL_CALL rtl_bootstrap_expandMacros( rtl_uString ** macro); /** Escapes special characters ("$" and "\"). @param value an arbitrary, non-NULL value @param encoded non-NULL out parameter, receiving the given value with all occurrences of special characters ("$" and "\") escaped @since UDK 3.2.9 */ SAL_DLLPUBLIC void SAL_CALL rtl_bootstrap_encode( rtl_uString const * value, rtl_uString ** encoded ); #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif #endif /* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */