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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ * Copyright 2016, Olivier MATZ <zer0@droids-corp.org>
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Node parse API.
+ *
+ * The parse operation is to check if an input (a string or vector of
+ * strings) matches the node tree. On success, the result is stored in a
+ * tree that describes which part of the input matches which node.
+ */
+
+#ifndef ECOLI_PARSE_
+#define ECOLI_PARSE_
+
+#include <sys/queue.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <limits.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+
+struct ec_node;
+struct ec_parse;
+
+/**
+ * Create an empty parse tree.
+ *
+ * @return
+ * The empty parse tree.
+ */
+struct ec_parse *ec_parse(const struct ec_node *node);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+void ec_parse_free(struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+void ec_parse_free_children(struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+struct ec_parse *ec_parse_dup(const struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+// _get_ XXX
+const struct ec_strvec *ec_parse_strvec(const struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/* a NULL return value is an error, with errno set
+ ENOTSUP: no ->parse() operation
+*/
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+struct ec_parse *ec_node_parse(const struct ec_node *node, const char *str);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+struct ec_parse *ec_node_parse_strvec(const struct ec_node *node,
+ const struct ec_strvec *strvec);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+#define EC_PARSE_NOMATCH INT_MAX
+
+/* internal: used by nodes
+ *
+ * state is the current parse tree, which is built piece by piece while
+ * parsing the node tree: ec_node_parse_child() creates a new child in
+ * this state parse tree, and calls the parse() method for the child
+ * node, with state pointing to this new child. If it does not match,
+ * the child is removed in the state, else it is kept, with its
+ * possible descendants.
+ *
+ * return:
+ * the number of matched strings in strvec on success
+ * EC_PARSE_NOMATCH (positive) if it does not match
+ * -1 on error, and errno is set
+ */
+int ec_node_parse_child(const struct ec_node *node,
+ struct ec_parse *state,
+ const struct ec_strvec *strvec);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+void ec_parse_link_child(struct ec_parse *parse,
+ struct ec_parse *child);
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+void ec_parse_unlink_child(struct ec_parse *parse,
+ struct ec_parse *child);
+
+/* keep the const */
+#define ec_parse_get_root(parse) ({ \
+ const struct ec_parse *p_ = parse; /* check type */ \
+ struct ec_parse *parse_ = (struct ec_parse *)parse; \
+ typeof(parse) res_; \
+ (void)p_; \
+ res_ = __ec_parse_get_root(parse_); \
+ res_; \
+})
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+struct ec_parse *__ec_parse_get_root(struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+struct ec_parse *ec_parse_get_parent(const struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ * Get the first child of a tree.
+ *
+ */
+struct ec_parse *ec_parse_get_first_child(const struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+struct ec_parse *ec_parse_get_last_child(const struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+struct ec_parse *ec_parse_get_next(const struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+#define EC_PARSE_FOREACH_CHILD(child, parse) \
+ for (child = ec_parse_get_first_child(parse); \
+ child != NULL; \
+ child = ec_parse_get_next(child)) \
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+bool ec_parse_has_child(const struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+const struct ec_node *ec_parse_get_node(const struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+void ec_parse_del_last_child(struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+struct ec_keyval *ec_parse_get_attrs(struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+void ec_parse_dump(FILE *out, const struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+struct ec_parse *ec_parse_find_first(struct ec_parse *parse,
+ const char *id);
+
+/**
+ * Iterate among parse tree
+ *
+ * Use it with:
+ * for (iter = state; iter != NULL; iter = ec_parse_iter_next(iter))
+ */
+struct ec_parse *ec_parse_iter_next(struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+size_t ec_parse_len(const struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+/**
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ */
+size_t ec_parse_matches(const struct ec_parse *parse);
+
+#endif