[Libvir] [PATCH 2/6] Inactive domain support: new virHash APIs

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:39:01PM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 04:25:55PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 04:50:55AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 02:18:48AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > > The attached patch adds a couple of new APIs to the hash table object to
> > > > allow various different ways of iterating over the contents of the hash
> > > > table. The methods are:
> > > > 
> > > >  virHashForEach
> > > >  virHashRemoveSet
> > > >  virHashSearch
> > > > 
> > > > Docs for these methods are all inline. Compared to previous patch a logic
> > > > flaw in the virHashRemoveSet method was fixed prevently some severe memory
> > > > corruption!
> > > 
> > >   The APIs are okay, I'm just wondering if the iterator should not return 
> > > an int allowing to break the iteration, but admitedly that would make it
> > > close to the search. So it's fine as-is.
> > 
> > Yes, that's a good idea - I'll make it return number of elements - I think
> > I could acutaly make use of that elsewhere already.
> > 
> > > > + int virHashRemoveSet(virHashTablePtr table, virHashSearcher iter, virHashDeallocator f, const void *data) {
> > > > +     int i;
> > > > + 
> > > > + }
> > > 
> > >  Iterating when removing entries which are first in the list is a bit tricky
> > > but that's looks fine.
> > 
> > Yeah, that's why i wrote a dedicated method for iterating & removing in
> > one go - calling 'virHashRemove' from the normal iterator just caused
> > very bad things to happen :-)
> 
>   Compute next first, then process to test, usually that works :-)

Comitted, with the addition of the logic to return the number of elements
iterated over.

Dan.
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