[Vortex] Change notify vortex-axllist-api-01
Francis Brosnan Blazquez
francis at aspl.es
Tue Apr 17 16:24:30 CEST 2007
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Change Id: vortex-axllist-api-01
Project name: Vortex Library
Included in: already included and shipped with next
stable release 1.0.3
Status: NOTIFY
Author: Francis Brosnan Blázquez
Motivation
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Due to the ongoing work to remove the GLib dependency, previous
releases was using the GList type as a foundation to return a list of
items. This has been replaced with axlList.
The axlList type definition, comes from the Axl Library, and includes
a memory efficient implementation to avoid frequent allocation
patterns which are resolved into really few.
Change Description
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Any function returning or receiving a (GList *) type, now does the
same but with axlList.
For all functions that have been updated, are now included a brief
example of code showing how to use the list.
The following are the set of functions that have been updated:
- vortex_connection_get_remote_profiles
- vortex_profiles_get_actual_list
Solution to incompatibility
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Previously, with both functions, it was required to done something
similar to the following to iterate over all elements found in the
returned list:
list = vortex_connection_get_remote_profiles (connection);
list = g_list_first (list)
for (; list; g_list_next (list)) {
printf ("uri found=%s\n", (char *)list->data);
}
Now, the same is done easily with:
iterator = 0;
list = vortex_connection_get_remote_profiles (connection);
while (iterator < axl_list_length (list)) {
printf ("uri found=%s\n", axl_list_get_nth (list, iterator));
iterator++;
}
// now it is required to remove the result, allowing to have
// an independent copy
axl_list_free (list);
In both cases, the returned list is required to be deallocated.
References
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[1] Project link:
http://vortex.aspl.es
[2] Change notification published by the project:
http://vortex.aspl.es/doc.html
[3] Change notification definition
http://www.aspl.es/change/change-notification.txt
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Francis Brosnan Blazquez <francis at aspl.es>
Advanced Software Production Line, S.L.
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