src/: Carve out a `representation' subfield of adns_rrtype.

[adns.git] / src / adns.h

diff --git a/src/adns.h b/src/adns.h
index 8b6b345d41b8ea61754db05872e3aa021e748967..578545c80024f5bb0442227b69481874d95c9fd3 100644 (file)
--- a/src/adns.h
+++ b/src/adns.h
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 /*
  * adns.h
- * - adns user-visible API (single-threaded, without any locking)
+ * - adns user-visible API
  */
 /*
  *
  *  This file is
- *    Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>
+ *    Copyright (C) 1997-2000,2003,2006 Ian Jackson
  *
  *  It is part of adns, which is
- *    Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>
- *    Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
- *  
+ *    Copyright (C) 1997-2000,2003,2006 Ian Jackson
+ *    Copyright (C) 1999-2000,2003,2006 Tony Finch
+ *    Copyright (C) 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
+ *
  *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
@@ -104,10 +105,29 @@ typedef enum { /* In general, or together the desired flags: */
 } adns_queryflags;
 
 typedef enum {
- adns__rrt_typemask=0x0ffff,
+ adns_rrt_typemask=  0x0ffff,
+ adns_rrt_reprmask= 0xffffff,
  adns__qtf_deref=    0x10000,/* dereference domains; perhaps get extra data */
  adns__qtf_mail822=  0x20000,/* return mailboxes in RFC822 rcpt field fmt   */
-                    
+
+ adns_r_unknown=     0x40000,
+   /* To use this, ask for records of type   <rr-type-code>|adns_r_unknown.
+    * adns will not process the RDATA - you'll get adns_rr_byteblocks,
+    * where the int is the length and the unsigned char* points to the
+    * data.  String representation of the RR data (by adns_rrinfo) is as in
+    * RFC3597.  adns_rr_info will not return the type name in *rrtname_r
+    * (due to memory management problems); *fmtname_r will be set to
+    * "unknown".
+    *
+    * Do not specify adns_r_unknown along with a known RR type which
+    * requires domain name uncompression (see RFC3597 s4); domain names
+    * will not be uncompressed and the resulting data would be useless.
+    * Asking for meta-RR types via adns_r_unknown will not work properly
+    * either and may make adns complain about server misbehaviour, so don't
+    * do that.
+    *
+    * Don't forget adns_qf_quoteok if that's what you want. */
+
  adns_r_none=             0,
                     
  adns_r_a=                1,
@@ -315,7 +335,12 @@ typedef struct {
 typedef struct {
   int priority, weight, port;
   adns_rr_hostaddr ha;
-} adns_rr_srvaddr;
+} adns_rr_srvha;
+
+typedef struct {
+  int len;
+  unsigned char *data;
+} adns_rr_byteblock;
 
 typedef struct {
   adns_status status;
@@ -338,7 +363,8 @@ typedef struct {
     adns_rr_intstr *intstr;          /* mx_raw */
     adns_rr_soa *soa;                /* soa, soa_raw */
     adns_rr_srvraw *srvraw;          /* srv_raw */
-    adns_rr_srvaddr *srvaddr;        /* srv */
+    adns_rr_srvha *srvha;/* srv */
+    adns_rr_byteblock *byteblock;    /* ...|unknown */
   } rrs;
 } adns_answer;
 
@@ -376,6 +402,18 @@ typedef struct {
  *  requested.
  */
 
+/* Threads:
+ *  adns does not use any static modifiable state, so it
+ *   is safe to call adns_init several times and then use the
+ *   resulting adns_states concurrently.
+ *  However, it is NOT safe to make simultaneous calls into
+ *   adns using the same adns_state; a single adns_state must be used
+ *   only by one thread at a time.  You can solve this problem by
+ *   having one adns_state per thread, or if that isn't feasible, you
+ *   could maintain a pool of adns_states.  Unfortunately neither of
+ *   these approaches has optimal performance.
+ */
+
 int adns_init(adns_state *newstate_r, adns_initflags flags,
              FILE *diagfile /*0=>stderr*/);