/* Copyright (C) 2011-2014 David Robillard Copyright (C) 2013 Paul Davis This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ /** * @file jack/metadata.h * @ingroup publicheader * @brief JACK Metadata API * */ #ifndef __jack_metadata_h__ #define __jack_metadata_h__ #include #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif /** * @defgroup Metadata Metadata API. * @{ */ /** * A single property (key:value pair). * * Although there is no semantics imposed on metadata keys and values, it is * much less useful to use it to associate highly structured data with a port * (or client), since this then implies the need for some (presumably * library-based) code to parse the structure and be able to use it. * * The real goal of the metadata API is to be able to tag ports (and clients) * with small amounts of data that is outside of the core JACK API but * nevertheless useful. */ typedef struct { /** The key of this property (URI string). */ const char* key; /** The property value (null-terminated string). */ const char* data; /** * Type of data, either a MIME type or URI. * * If type is NULL or empty, the data is assumed to be a UTF-8 encoded * string (text/plain). The data is a null-terminated string regardless of * type, so values can always be copied, but clients should not try to * interpret values of an unknown type. * * Example values: * - image/png;base64 (base64 encoded PNG image) * - http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int (integer) * * Official types are preferred, but clients may use any syntactically * valid MIME type (which start with a type and slash, like "text/..."). * If a URI type is used, it must be a complete absolute URI * (which start with a scheme and colon, like "http:"). */ const char* type; } jack_property_t; /** * Set a property on @p subject. * * See the above documentation for rules about @p subject and @p key. * @param subject The subject to set the property on. * @param key The key of the property. * @param value The value of the property. * @param type The type of the property. See the discussion of * types in the definition of jack_property_t above. * @return 0 on success. */ int jack_set_property(jack_client_t*, jack_uuid_t subject, const char* key, const char* value, const char* type); /** * Get a property on @p subject. * * @param subject The subject to get the property from. * @param key The key of the property. * @param value Set to the value of the property if found, or NULL otherwise. * The caller must free this value with jack_free(). * @param type The type of the property if set, or NULL. See the discussion * of types in the definition of jack_property_t above. * If non-null, the caller must free this value with jack_free(). * * @return 0 on success, -1 if the @p subject has no @p key property. */ int jack_get_property(jack_uuid_t subject, const char* key, char** value, char** type); /** * A description of a subject (a set of properties). */ typedef struct { jack_uuid_t subject; /**< Subject being described. */ uint32_t property_cnt; /**< Number of elements in "properties". */ jack_property_t* properties; /**< Array of properties. */ uint32_t property_size; /**< Private, do not use. */ } jack_description_t; /** * Free a description. * * @param desc a jack_description_t whose associated memory will all be released * @param free_description_itself if non-zero, then @param desc will also be passed to free() */ void jack_free_description (jack_description_t* desc, int free_description_itself); /** * Get a description of @p subject. * @param subject The subject to get all properties of. * @param desc Set to the description of subject if found, or NULL otherwise. * The caller must free this value with jack_free_description(). * @return the number of properties, -1 if no @p subject with any properties exists. */ int jack_get_properties (jack_uuid_t subject, jack_description_t* desc); /** * Get descriptions for all subjects with metadata. * @param descs Set to an array of descriptions. * The caller must free each of these with jack_free_description(), * and the array itself with jack_free(). * @return the number of descriptions, or -1 on error. */ int jack_get_all_properties (jack_description_t** descs); /** * Remove a single property on a subject. * * @param client The JACK client making the request to remove the property. * @param subject The subject to remove the property from. * @param key The key of the property to be removed. * * @return 0 on success, -1 otherwise */ int jack_remove_property (jack_client_t* client, jack_uuid_t subject, const char* key); /** * Remove all properties on a subject. * * @param client The JACK client making the request to remove some properties. * @param subject The subject to remove all properties from. * * @return a count of the number of properties removed, or -1 on error. */ int jack_remove_properties (jack_client_t* client, jack_uuid_t subject); /** * Remove all properties. * * WARNING!! This deletes all metadata managed by a running JACK server. * Data lost cannot be recovered (though it can be recreated by new calls * to jack_set_property()). * * @param client The JACK client making the request to remove all properties * * @return 0 on success, -1 otherwise */ int jack_remove_all_properties (jack_client_t* client); typedef enum { PropertyCreated, PropertyChanged, PropertyDeleted } jack_property_change_t; /** * Prototype for the client supplied function that is called by the * engine anytime a property or properties have been modified. * * Note that when the key is empty, it means all properties have been * modified. This is often used to indicate that the removal of all keys. * * @param subject The subject the change relates to, this can be either a client or port * @param key The key of the modified property (URI string) * @param change Wherever the key has been created, changed or deleted * @param arg pointer to a client supplied structure */ typedef void (*JackPropertyChangeCallback)(jack_uuid_t subject, const char* key, jack_property_change_t change, void* arg); /** * Arrange for @p client to call @p callback whenever a property is created, * changed or deleted. * * @param client the JACK client making the request * @param callback the function to be invoked when a property change occurs * @param arg the argument to be passed to @param callback when it is invoked * * @return 0 success, -1 otherwise. */ int jack_set_property_change_callback (jack_client_t* client, JackPropertyChangeCallback callback, void* arg); /** * A value that identifies what the hardware port is connected to (an external * device of some kind). Possible values might be "E-Piano" or "Master 2 Track". */ extern const char* JACK_METADATA_CONNECTED; /** * The supported event types of an event port. * * This is a kludge around Jack only supporting MIDI, particularly for OSC. * This property is a comma-separated list of event types, currently "MIDI" or * "OSC". If this contains "OSC", the port may carry OSC bundles (first byte * '#') or OSC messages (first byte '/'). Note that the "status byte" of both * OSC events is not a valid MIDI status byte, so MIDI clients that check the * status byte will gracefully ignore OSC messages if the user makes an * inappropriate connection. */ extern const char* JACK_METADATA_EVENT_TYPES; /** * A value that should be shown when attempting to identify the * specific hardware outputs of a client. Typical values might be * "ADAT1", "S/PDIF L" or "MADI 43". */ extern const char* JACK_METADATA_HARDWARE; /** * A value with a MIME type of "image/png;base64" that is an encoding of an * NxN (with 32 < N <= 128) image to be used when displaying a visual * representation of that client or port. */ extern const char* JACK_METADATA_ICON_LARGE; /** * The name of the icon for the subject (typically client). * * This is used for looking up icons on the system, possibly with many sizes or * themes. Icons should be searched for according to the freedesktop Icon * * Theme Specification: * https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html */ extern const char* JACK_METADATA_ICON_NAME; /** * A value with a MIME type of "image/png;base64" that is an encoding of an * NxN (with N <=32) image to be used when displaying a visual representation * of that client or port. */ extern const char* JACK_METADATA_ICON_SMALL; /** * Order for a port. * * This is used to specify the best order to show ports in user interfaces. * The value MUST be an integer. There are no other requirements, so there may * be gaps in the orders for several ports. Applications should compare the * orders of ports to determine their relative order, but must not assign any * other relevance to order values. * * It is encouraged to use http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int as the type. */ extern const char* JACK_METADATA_ORDER; /** * A value that should be shown to the user when displaying a port to the user, * unless the user has explicitly overridden that a request to show the port * name, or some other key value. */ extern const char* JACK_METADATA_PRETTY_NAME; /** */ extern const char* JACK_METADATA_PORT_GROUP; /** * The type of an audio signal. * * This property allows audio ports to be tagged with a "meaning". The value * is a simple string. Currently, the only type is "CV", for "control voltage" * ports. Hosts SHOULD be take care to not treat CV ports as audible and send * their output directly to speakers. In particular, CV ports are not * necessarily periodic at all and may have very high DC. */ extern const char* JACK_METADATA_SIGNAL_TYPE; /** * @} */ #ifdef __cplusplus } /* namespace */ #endif #endif /* __jack_metadata_h__ */