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authorStefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com>2013-11-20 15:08:32 +0100
committerStefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com>2013-11-22 15:51:10 +0100
commit320389f88b42215bb0998e6242db19b569fd1a13 (patch)
tree5ae3d9146f37189d088fb3eda5924989ae65e926 /libavutil/dict.h
parente2ad4e65a1d320862e1d6878c80d76a49031058b (diff)
downloadffmpeg-320389f88b42215bb0998e6242db19b569fd1a13.tar.gz
lavu/dict.h: apply various fixes/extensions to doxy
In particular, document AV_DICT_MATCH_CASE, AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX, and extend documentation for av_dict_get().
Diffstat (limited to 'libavutil/dict.h')
-rw-r--r--libavutil/dict.h13
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libavutil/dict.h b/libavutil/dict.h
index 38f03a407f..5d66bb7e93 100644
--- a/libavutil/dict.h
+++ b/libavutil/dict.h
@@ -64,12 +64,13 @@
*
*/
-#define AV_DICT_MATCH_CASE 1
-#define AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX 2
+#define AV_DICT_MATCH_CASE 1 /**< Only get an entry with exact-case key match. Only relevant in av_dict_get(). */
+#define AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX 2 /**< Return first entry in a dictionary whose first part corresponds to the search key,
+ ignoring the suffix of the found key string. Only relevant in av_dict_get(). */
#define AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY 4 /**< Take ownership of a key that's been
- allocated with av_malloc() and children. */
+ allocated with av_malloc() or another memory allocation function. */
#define AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL 8 /**< Take ownership of a value that's been
- allocated with av_malloc() and chilren. */
+ allocated with av_malloc() or another memory allocation function. */
#define AV_DICT_DONT_OVERWRITE 16 ///< Don't overwrite existing entries.
#define AV_DICT_APPEND 32 /**< If the entry already exists, append to it. Note that no
delimiter is added, the strings are simply concatenated. */
@@ -84,8 +85,12 @@ typedef struct AVDictionary AVDictionary;
/**
* Get a dictionary entry with matching key.
*
+ * To iterate through all the dictionary entries, you can set the matching key
+ * to the null string "" and set the AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX flag.
+ *
* @param prev Set to the previous matching element to find the next.
* If set to NULL the first matching element is returned.
+ * @param key matching key
* @param flags Allows case as well as suffix-insensitive comparisons.
* @return Found entry or NULL, changing key or value leads to undefined behavior.
*/