Use a macro that uses NM_CAST_STRV_CC() to cast the strv argument. Note that
NM_CAST_STRV_CC() uses C11's _Generic() to check whether the argument is
of a valid type.
glib's is{alnum,alpha,ascii,...}() functions perform the check based
on the current locale. Probably using isascii() would be fine anyway,
but add a NM version that just checks that the upper bit is zero.
nm_utils_is_specific_hostname() is basically to check whether the
hostname is localhost (and also handle "(null)").
In that sense, it's similar to systemd's is_localhost(). Extend or
variant to
- be case insensitive (like is_localhost()).
- accept more variants of localhost/localdomain names as special.
It's called "unsafe" because the returned pointer array is not
NULL terminated. This is due to a limitation of GPtrArray which
doesn't support that. If you want a NULL terminated strv array,
use a GArray based API, like nm_strvarray_*().
This is not in "nm-glib.h", because it's not a complete replacement.
In glib before 2.62, it's not possible to implement g_ptr_array_copy()
as glib provides it, because the element_free_func is not accessible.
So, instead add our own implemented, which follows glib's version as
much as it can.
The output of nm_utils_format_variant_attributes() must be accepted by
nm_utils_parse_variant_attributes(), producing the initial attributes.
The latter has a special handling of some attributes, depending on the
input NMVariantAttributeSpec list. For example, if the
NMVariantAttributeSpec is a boolean with the 'no_value' flag, the
parser doesn't look for a value.
Pass the NMVariantAttributeSpec list to the format function so that it
can behave in the same way as the parse one.
We want to parse "/proc/cmdline". That is space separated with support
for quoting and escaping. Our implementation becomes part of stable
behavior, and we should interpret the kernel command line the same way
as the system does. That means, our implementation should match
systemd's.
Iterating hash tables gives an undefined order. Often we want to have
a stable order, for example when printing the content of a hash or
when converting it to a "a{sv}" variant.
How to achieve that best? I think we should only iterate the hash once,
and not require additional lookups. nm_utils_named_values_from_strdict()
achieves that by returning the key and the value together. Also, often
we only need the list for a short time, so we can avoid heap allocating
the list, if it is short enough. This works by allowing the caller to
provide a pre-allocated buffer (usually on the stack) and only as fallback
allocate a new list.
If the value pointer is const, it is commonly inconvenient and requires
a cast. Requiring casts on a common base does not increase type safety,
but is annoying.
When parsing user input if is often convenient to allow stripping whitespace.
Especially with escaped strings, the user could still escape the whitespace,
if the space should be taken literally.
Add support for that to nm_utils_buf_utf8safe_unescape().
Note that this is not the same as calling g_strstrip() before/after
unescape. That is, because nm_utils_buf_utf8safe_unescape() correctly
preserves escaped whitespace. If you call g_strstrip() before/after
the unescape, you don't know whether the whitespace is escaped.
We want to use the function to unescape (compress) secrets. As such, we want
to be sure that no secrets are leaked in memory due to growing the buffer with
realloc. In fact, reallocation should never happen. Assert for that.
As reallocation cannot happen, we could directly fill a buffer with
API like nm_utils_strbuf_*(). But NMStrBuf has low overhead even in this
case.
GPtrArray does not support NULL terminating the pointer array. That
makes it cumbersome to use it for tracking a strv array. Add a few
helper functions nm_strvarray_*() that help using a GArray instead.
