Re: [AD] load_datafile_object using index

[Dustin Dettmer <dustin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

--- Elias Pschernig wrote:
> /* returns NULL on failure */
> DATAFILE_INDEX *generate_datafile_index(const char
> *name);
> 
> /* pass the index generated above */
> load_datafile_object_indexed(const char *name,
> DATAFILE_INDEX *index, int item)
> 
> /* frees the index again */
> destroy_datafile_index(index);

I vote for the current API's method of using load /
unload.  No need to break consistencies..

> I.e., make this all transparent to the user.. since
> there will never be
> any need to manually read out the file offsets - so
> just hide it inside
> a DATAFILE_INDEX object. DATAFILE_INDEX would just
> be typedefed to long*
> for now, but later it could be a struct which also
> contains a hashtable
> of the NAME properties, and then we could have:
> 
> load_datafile_object_named(const char *dfilename,
> DATAFILE_INDEX *index,
> char const *name)
> 
> Without needing to change the API.

Thats always good :)

> 
> -- 
> Elias Pschernig