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| author | Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> | 2005-06-17 16:29:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2007-10-10 13:18:23 -0500 |
| commit | cd39847e815bea73b6bcae63541dd36b1715aa6c (patch) | |
| tree | 8d32a9a57ec3b27282f5042a9b570c9d7348d805 /source4/build/pidl/TODO | |
| parent | 5b19286df08d6cf10654d6e20c323ba44f7d2054 (diff) | |
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r7695: Add support for the [string] attribute that works in the traditional sense. Not
used anywhere yet.
(This used to be commit a73a35cfc7b5b92cd95bd0d0fbd64d04acecccf3)
Diffstat (limited to 'source4/build/pidl/TODO')
| -rw-r--r-- | source4/build/pidl/TODO | 30 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/source4/build/pidl/TODO b/source4/build/pidl/TODO index 4969bf78b4..d51bd83b04 100644 --- a/source4/build/pidl/TODO +++ b/source4/build/pidl/TODO @@ -1,38 +1,10 @@ -- Fix string support. - This would make strings a special kind of arrays flagged by the - [string] attribute. Pidl itself would support a couple of extra - attributes for it's own use while being compatible with other IDL - compilers. - Proposed extensions for pidl (to arrays): - [convert(t)] attribute for forcing conversions from CH_UCS2, etc to UTF8 - [noheader] attribute -> Indicating the string is not preceded - Implement: - ndr.pm: - - represent a string as an array with length set to "STRING" - - [string] implies is_varying unless noheader is specified. ndr_parser.pm: - if [charset()] specified, use instead of the for loops (call ndr_pu{ll,sh}_charset() - - calculate length using helper function if [string] is specified - -The various flags for strings would change as follows: - -LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_ASCII -> [convert(CH_ASCII)] -LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_LEN4 -> [string] -LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_SIZE4 -> [size_is()] or if needed [conformant] -LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_NOTERM -> array -LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_NULLTERM -> [noheader] -LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_SIZE2 -> uint16 length; [string] char data[length] -LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_BYTESIZE -> uint16 length; [string] char data[length] -LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_FIXLEN32 -> [32] -LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_CONFORMANT -> no longer needed -LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_CHARLEN -> ??? -LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_UTF8 -> Nothing (but UCS2 has [convert(CH_UCS2)] -LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_FIXLEN15 -> [15] - True multiple dimension array / strings in arrays support (closely related to things specified above) - compatibility mode for generating MIDL-readable data: - strip out pidl-specific properties - - convert subcontext() to an array of chars. + - convert subcontext() to an array of uint8. |