FFmpeg/libavformat/url.h

/*
 *
 * This file is part of Libav.
 *
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 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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 */

/**
 * @file
 * unbuffered private I/O API
 */

#ifndef AVFORMAT_URL_H
#define AVFORMAT_URL_H

#include "avio.h"
#include "libavformat/version.h"

#if !FF_API_OLD_AVIO
#define URL_PROTOCOL_FLAG_NESTED_SCHEME 1 /*< The protocol name can be the first part of a nested protocol scheme */

extern int (*url_interrupt_cb)(void);
#endif

/**
 * Create a URLContext for accessing to the resource indicated by
 * url, but do not initiate the connection yet.
 *
 * @param puc pointer to the location where, in case of success, the
 * function puts the pointer to the created URLContext
 * @param flags flags which control how the resource indicated by url
 * is to be opened
 * @return 0 in case of success, a negative value corresponding to an
 * AVERROR code in case of failure
 */
int ffurl_alloc(URLContext **h, const char *url, int flags);

/**
 * Connect an URLContext that has been allocated by ffurl_alloc
 */
int ffurl_connect(URLContext *h);

/**
 * Create an URLContext for accessing to the resource indicated by
 * url, and open it.
 *
 * @param puc pointer to the location where, in case of success, the
 * function puts the pointer to the created URLContext
 * @param flags flags which control how the resource indicated by url
 * is to be opened
 * @return 0 in case of success, a negative value corresponding to an
 * AVERROR code in case of failure
 */
int ffurl_open(URLContext **h, const char *url, int flags);

/**
 * Read up to size bytes from the resource accessed by h, and store
 * the read bytes in buf.
 *
 * @return The number of bytes actually read, or a negative value
 * corresponding to an AVERROR code in case of error. A value of zero
 * indicates that it is not possible to read more from the accessed
 * resource (except if the value of the size argument is also zero).
 */
int ffurl_read(URLContext *h, unsigned char *buf, int size);

/**
 * Read as many bytes as possible (up to size), calling the
 * read function multiple times if necessary.
 * This makes special short-read handling in applications
 * unnecessary, if the return value is < size then it is
 * certain there was either an error or the end of file was reached.
 */
int ffurl_read_complete(URLContext *h, unsigned char *buf, int size);

/**
 * Write size bytes from buf to the resource accessed by h.
 *
 * @return the number of bytes actually written, or a negative value
 * corresponding to an AVERROR code in case of failure
 */
int ffurl_write(URLContext *h, const unsigned char *buf, int size);

/**
 * Change the position that will be used by the next read/write
 * operation on the resource accessed by h.
 *
 * @param pos specifies the new position to set
 * @param whence specifies how pos should be interpreted, it must be
 * one of SEEK_SET (seek from the beginning), SEEK_CUR (seek from the
 * current position), SEEK_END (seek from the end), or AVSEEK_SIZE
 * (return the filesize of the requested resource, pos is ignored).
 * @return a negative value corresponding to an AVERROR code in case
 * of failure, or the resulting file position, measured in bytes from
 * the beginning of the file. You can use this feature together with
 * SEEK_CUR to read the current file position.
 */
int64_t ffurl_seek(URLContext *h, int64_t pos, int whence);

/**
 * Close the resource accessed by the URLContext h, and free the
 * memory used by it.
 *
 * @return a negative value if an error condition occurred, 0
 * otherwise
 */
int ffurl_close(URLContext *h);

/**
 * Return the filesize of the resource accessed by h, AVERROR(ENOSYS)
 * if the operation is not supported by h, or another negative value
 * corresponding to an AVERROR error code in case of failure.
 */
int64_t ffurl_size(URLContext *h);

/**
 * Return the file descriptor associated with this URL. For RTP, this
 * will return only the RTP file descriptor, not the RTCP file descriptor.
 *
 * @return the file descriptor associated with this URL, or <0 on error.
 */
int ffurl_get_file_handle(URLContext *h);

/**
 * Register the URLProtocol protocol.
 *
 * @param size the size of the URLProtocol struct referenced
 */
int ffurl_register_protocol(URLProtocol *protocol, int size);

#endif //AVFORMAT_URL_H