annotate libpurple/circbuffer.h @ 17472:ae7a4134e499

Changing this timer to run every 50 milliseconds instead of every 5 milliseconds. The timer is used to integrate our glib mainloop with silcclient's mainloop. Some Red Hat people complained that the timer causes the CPU to wake up really often and that hurts out power consumption on laptops and what not. Ideally the integration wouldn't need the timeout thing and would instead by event-driven. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242398

/*
 * @file circbuffer.h Buffer Utility Functions
 * @ingroup core
 *
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 */
#ifndef _CIRCBUFFER_H
#define _CIRCBUFFER_H

#include <glib.h>

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

typedef struct _PurpleCircBuffer {

	/** A pointer to the starting address of our chunk of memory. */
	gchar *buffer;

	/** The incremental amount to increase this buffer by when
	 *  the buffer is not big enough to hold incoming data, in bytes. */
	gsize growsize;

	/** The length of this buffer, in bytes. */
	gsize buflen;

	/** The number of bytes of this buffer that contain unread data. */
	gsize bufused;

	/** A pointer to the next byte where new incoming data is
	 *  buffered to. */
	gchar *inptr;

	/** A pointer to the next byte of buffered data that should be
	 *  read by the consumer. */
	gchar *outptr;

} PurpleCircBuffer;

/**
 * Creates a new circular buffer.  This will not allocate any memory for the
 * actual buffer until data is appended to it.
 *
 * @param growsize The amount that the buffer should grow the first time data
 *                 is appended and every time more space is needed.  Pass in
 *                 "0" to use the default of 256 bytes.
 *
 * @return The new PurpleCircBuffer. This should be freed with
 *         purple_circ_buffer_destroy when you are done with it
 */
PurpleCircBuffer *purple_circ_buffer_new(gsize growsize);

/**
 * Dispose of the PurpleCircBuffer and free any memory used by it (including any
 * memory used by the internal buffer).
 *
 * @param buf The PurpleCircBuffer to free
 */
void purple_circ_buffer_destroy(PurpleCircBuffer *buf);

/**
 * Append data to the PurpleCircBuffer.  This will grow the internal
 * buffer to fit the added data, if needed.
 *
 * @param buf The PurpleCircBuffer to which to append the data
 * @param src pointer to the data to copy into the buffer
 * @param len number of bytes to copy into the buffer
 */
void purple_circ_buffer_append(PurpleCircBuffer *buf, gconstpointer src, gsize len);

/**
 * Determine the maximum number of contiguous bytes that can be read from the
 * PurpleCircBuffer.
 * Note: This may not be the total number of bytes that are buffered - a
 * subsequent call after calling purple_circ_buffer_mark_read() may indicate more
 * data is available to read.
 *
 * @param buf the PurpleCircBuffer for which to determine the maximum contiguous
 *            bytes that can be read.
 *
 * @return the number of bytes that can be read from the PurpleCircBuffer
 */
gsize purple_circ_buffer_get_max_read(const PurpleCircBuffer *buf);

/**
 * Mark the number of bytes that have been read from the buffer.
 *
 * @param buf The PurpleCircBuffer to mark bytes read from
 * @param len The number of bytes to mark as read
 *
 * @return TRUE if we successfully marked the bytes as having been read, FALSE
 *         otherwise.
 */
gboolean purple_circ_buffer_mark_read(PurpleCircBuffer *buf, gsize len);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* _CIRCBUFFER_H */