gnucash/libgnucash/core-utils/gnc-glib-utils.h
Geert Janssens 7765e13704 Bindings - move log wrappers into the swig interface files
They are only used for guile (and possibly python, so there's
no need to carry them around in core-utils.
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/********************************************************************\
* gnc-glib-utils.c -- utility functions based on glib functions *
* Copyright (C) 2006 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org> *
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/** @addtogroup GLib
@{ */
/** @addtogroup Helpers GLib Helpers
The API in this file is designed to provide support functions that
wrap the base glib functions and make them easier to use.
@{ */
/** @file gnc-glib-utils.h
* @brief GLib helper routines
* @author Copyright (C) 2006 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
*/
#ifndef GNC_GLIB_UTILS_H
#define GNC_GLIB_UTILS_H
#include <glib.h>
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/** @name Character Sets
@{
*/
/** Collate two UTF-8 strings. This function performs basic argument
* checking before calling g_utf8_collate.
*
* @param str1 The first string.
*
* @param str2 The first string.
*
* @return Same return value as g_utf8_collate. The values are: < 0
* if str1 compares before str2, 0 if they compare equal, > 0 if str1
* compares after str2. */
int safe_utf8_collate (const char *str1, const char *str2);
/**
* @brief Validates UTF-8 encoded text for use in GnuCash.
*
* Validates the strict subset of UTF-8 that is valid XML text, as detailed in
* https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Char linked from bug #346535.
*
* <em>Copied from g_utf8_validate():</em>
*
* Validates UTF-8 encoded text, where @a str is the text to validate; if
* @a str is nul-terminated, then @a max_len can be -1, otherwise @a max_len
* should be the number of bytes to validate. If @a end is non-%NULL, then the
* end of the valid range will be stored there (i.e. the start of the first
* invalid character if some bytes were invalid, or the end of the text being
* validated otherwise).
*
* Returns %TRUE if all of @a str was valid. Many GLib and GTK+
* routines @e require valid UTF-8 as input;
* so data read from a file or the network should be checked
* with g_utf8_validate() before doing anything else with it.
*
* @param str a pointer to character data
* @param max_len max bytes to validate, or -1 to go until NUL
* @param end return location for end of valid data
*
* @return %TRUE if the text was valid UTF-8.
**/
gboolean gnc_utf8_validate(const gchar *str, gssize max_len, const gchar **end);
/** Strip any non-UTF-8 characters from a string. This function
* rewrites the string "in place" instead of allocating and returning
* a new string. This allows it to operate on strings that are
* defined as character arrays in a larger data structure. Note that
* it also removes some subset of invalid XML characters, too.
* See https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Char linked from bug #346535
*
* @param str A pointer to the string to strip of invalid
* characters. */
void gnc_utf8_strip_invalid (gchar *str);
/** Returns a newly allocated copy of the given string but with any
* non-UTF-8 character stripped from it.
*
* Note that it also removes some subset of invalid XML characters,
* too. See https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Char linked from bug
* #346535
*
* @param str A pointer to the string to be copied and stripped of
* non-UTF-8 characters.
*
* @return A newly allocated string that has to be g_free'd by the
* caller. */
gchar *gnc_utf8_strip_invalid_strdup (const gchar* str);
/** Strip any non-utf8 characters and any control characters (everything < 0x20,
* \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, and \v) from a string. Rewrites the string in-place.
*
* @param str Pointer to the string to clean up.
*/
void gnc_utf8_strip_invalid_and_controls (gchar* str);
/**
* @brief Converts a string from UTF-8 to the encoding used for
* strings in the current locale.
*
* This essentially is a wrapper for g_locale_from_utf8 that can
* be swigified for use with Scheme to avoid adding a dependency
* for guile-glib.
*
* @param str A pointer to a UTF-8 encoded string to be converted.
*
* @return A newly allocated string that has to be g_free'd by the
* caller. If an error occurs, NULL is returned. */
gchar *gnc_locale_from_utf8(const gchar* str);
/**
* @brief Converts a string to UTF-8 from the encoding used for
* strings in the current locale.
*
* This essentially is a wrapper for g_locale_to_utf8 that can
* be swigified for use with Scheme to avoid adding a dependency
* for guile-glib.
*
* @param str A pointer to a string encoded according to locale.
*
* @return A newly allocated string that has to be g_free'd by the
* caller. If an error occurs, NULL is returned. */
gchar *gnc_locale_to_utf8(const gchar* str);
/** @} */
/** @name GList Manipulation
@{
*/
typedef gpointer (*GncGMapFunc)(gpointer data, gpointer user_data);
/**
* @return Caller-owned GList* of results of apply @a fn to @a list in order.
**/
GList* gnc_g_list_map(GList* list, GncGMapFunc fn, gpointer user_data);
/**
* Cut a GList into two parts; the @a cut_point is the beginning of the
* new list; @a list may need to be modified, but will be the list
* before the @a cut_point.
**/
void gnc_g_list_cut(GList **list, GList *cut_point);
/** @} */
/**
* @brief Return a string joining a GList whose elements are gchar*
* strings. Returns NULL if an empty GList* is passed through. The
* optional sep string will be used as separator. Must be g_freed when
* not needed anymore.
*
* @param list_of_strings A GList of chars*
*
* @param sep a separator or NULL
*
* @return A newly allocated string that has to be g_free'd by the
* caller.
**/
gchar * gnc_g_list_stringjoin (GList *list_of_strings, const gchar *sep);
/**
* @brief Scans the GList elements the minimum number of iterations
* required to test it against a specified size. Returns -1, 0 or 1
* depending on whether the GList length has less, same, or more
* elements than the size specified.
*
* @param lst A GList
*
* @param len the comparator length to compare the GList length with
*
* @return A signed int comparing GList length with specified size.
**/
gint gnc_list_length_cmp (const GList *list, size_t len);
#ifdef __cplusplus
} /* extern "C" */
#endif
#endif /* GNC_GLIB_UTILS_H */
/** @} */
/** @} */