Re: [PATCH v3 00/15] ref-filter: use parsing functions

[Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> So it appears to me that match_atom_name() is a misguided helper
> function that you shouldn't have to use too often.  If the signature
> of parse() functions is changed to take not just the atom but the
> pointer to its argument (could be NULL, if we are seeing
> "%(contents)", for example) that is already available as "formatp"
> in the function, then contents_atom_parser() could become more like:
>
> contents_atom_parser(struct used_atom *atom, const char *arg)
> {
>         if (args)
>                 atom->u.contents.option = C_BARE;
>         else if (!strcmp(arg, "body"))
>                 atom->u.contents.option = C_BODY;
>         ...
> }
>
> and there is no reason for this caller to even look at atom->name or
> worry about that it might have the dereferencing asterisk in front.
>

So we something like this for the parsing function:

 int parse_ref_filter_atom(const char *atom, const char *ep)
 {
        const char *sp;
+       char *arg;
        int i, at;

        sp = atom;
@@ -141,6 +143,7 @@ int parse_ref_filter_atom(const char *atom, const char *ep)
                const char *formatp = strchr(sp, ':');
                if (!formatp || ep < formatp)
                        formatp = ep;
+               arg = (char *)formatp;
                if (len == formatp - sp && !memcmp(valid_atom[i].name, sp, len))
                        break;
        }
@@ -154,6 +157,13 @@ int parse_ref_filter_atom(const char *atom, const char *ep)
        REALLOC_ARRAY(used_atom, used_atom_cnt);
        used_atom[at].name = xmemdupz(atom, ep - atom);
        used_atom[at].type = valid_atom[i].cmp_type;
+       if (arg != ep)
+               arg = xstrndup(arg + 1, ep - arg - 1);
+       else
+               arg = NULL;
+       if (valid_atom[i].parser)
+               valid_atom[i].parser(&used_atom[at], arg);
+       free(arg);
        if (*atom == '*')
                need_tagged = 1;
        if (!strcmp(used_atom[at].name, "symref"))

-- 
Regards,
Karthik Nayak