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+/*-
+ *   BSD LICENSE
+ *
+ *   Copyright(c) 2010-2013 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
+ *   Copyright(c) 2014 6WIND S.A.
+ *   All rights reserved.
+ *
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+ *   are met:
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+ *   (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+ *   OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _RTE_KVARGS_H_
+#define _RTE_KVARGS_H_
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * RTE Argument parsing
+ *
+ * This module can be used to parse arguments whose format is
+ * key1=value1,key2=value2,key3=value3,...
+ *
+ * The same key can appear several times with the same or a different
+ * value. Indeed, the arguments are stored as a list of key/values
+ * associations and not as a dictionary.
+ *
+ * This file provides some helpers that are especially used by virtual
+ * ethernet devices at initialization for arguments parsing.
+ */
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+/** Maximum number of key/value associations */
+#define RTE_KVARGS_MAX 32
+
+/** separator character used between each pair */
+#define RTE_KVARGS_PAIRS_DELIM	","
+
+/** separator character used between key and value */
+#define RTE_KVARGS_KV_DELIM	"="
+
+/** Type of callback function used by rte_kvargs_process() */
+typedef int (*arg_handler_t)(const char *key, const char *value, void *opaque);
+
+/** A key/value association */
+struct rte_kvargs_pair {
+	char *key;      /**< the name (key) of the association  */
+	char *value;    /**< the value associated to that key */
+};
+
+/** Store a list of key/value associations */
+struct rte_kvargs {
+	char *str;      /**< copy of the argument string */
+	unsigned count; /**< number of entries in the list */
+	struct rte_kvargs_pair pairs[RTE_KVARGS_MAX]; /**< list of key/values */
+};
+
+/**
+ * Allocate a rte_kvargs and store key/value associations from a string
+ *
+ * The function allocates and fills a rte_kvargs structure from a given
+ * string whose format is key1=value1,key2=value2,...
+ *
+ * The structure can be freed with rte_kvargs_free().
+ *
+ * @param args
+ *   The input string containing the key/value associations
+ * @param valid_keys
+ *   A list of valid keys (table of const char *, the last must be NULL).
+ *   This argument is ignored if NULL
+ *
+ * @return
+ *   - A pointer to an allocated rte_kvargs structure on success
+ *   - NULL on error
+ */
+struct rte_kvargs *rte_kvargs_parse(const char *args, const char *valid_keys[]);
+
+/**
+ * Free a rte_kvargs structure
+ *
+ * Free a rte_kvargs structure previously allocated with
+ * rte_kvargs_parse().
+ *
+ * @param kvlist
+ *   The rte_kvargs structure
+ */
+void rte_kvargs_free(struct rte_kvargs *kvlist);
+
+/**
+ * Call a handler function for each key/value matching the key
+ *
+ * For each key/value association that matches the given key, calls the
+ * handler function with the for a given arg_name passing the value on the
+ * dictionary for that key and a given extra argument. If *kvlist* is NULL
+ * function does nothing.
+ *
+ * @param kvlist
+ *   The rte_kvargs structure
+ * @param key_match
+ *   The key on which the handler should be called, or NULL to process handler
+ *   on all associations
+ * @param handler
+ *   The function to call for each matching key
+ * @param opaque_arg
+ *   A pointer passed unchanged to the handler
+ *
+ * @return
+ *   - 0 on success
+ *   - Negative on error
+ */
+int rte_kvargs_process(const struct rte_kvargs *kvlist,
+	const char *key_match, arg_handler_t handler, void *opaque_arg);
+
+/**
+ * Count the number of associations matching the given key
+ *
+ * @param kvlist
+ *   The rte_kvargs structure
+ * @param key_match
+ *   The key that should match, or NULL to count all associations
+
+ * @return
+ *   The number of entries
+ */
+unsigned rte_kvargs_count(const struct rte_kvargs *kvlist,
+	const char *key_match);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif