1 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.h b/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.h
index 51b8120b..fc041956 100644
--- a/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.h
+++ b/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.h
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
+#include <rte_compat.h>
+
 /** Maximum number of key/value associations */
 #define RTE_KVARGS_MAX 32
 
@@ -72,6 +74,36 @@ struct rte_kvargs *rte_kvargs_parse(const char *args,
 		const char *const valid_keys[]);
 
 /**
+ * Allocate a rte_kvargs and store key/value associations from a string.
+ * This version will consider any byte from valid_ends as a possible
+ * terminating character, and will not parse beyond any of their occurrence.
+ *
+ * The function allocates and fills an 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
+ *
+ * @param valid_ends
+ *   Acceptable terminating characters.
+ *   If NULL, the behavior is the same as ``rte_kvargs_parse``.
+ *
+ * @return
+ *   - A pointer to an allocated rte_kvargs structure on success
+ *   - NULL on error
+ */
+__rte_experimental
+struct rte_kvargs *rte_kvargs_parse_delim(const char *args,
+		const char *const valid_keys[],
+		const char *valid_ends);
+
+/**
  * Free a rte_kvargs structure
  *
  * Free a rte_kvargs structure previously allocated with
@@ -121,6 +153,32 @@ int rte_kvargs_process(const struct rte_kvargs *kvlist,
 unsigned rte_kvargs_count(const struct rte_kvargs *kvlist,
 	const char *key_match);
 
+/**
+ * Generic kvarg handler for string comparison.
+ *
+ * This function can be used for a generic string comparison processing
+ * on a list of kvargs.
+ *
+ * @param key
+ *   kvarg pair key.
+ *
+ * @param value
+ *   kvarg pair value.
+ *
+ * @param opaque
+ *   Opaque pointer to a string.
+ *
+ * @return
+ *   0 if the strings match.
+ *   !0 otherwise or on error.
+ *
+ *   Unless strcmp, comparison ordering is not kept.
+ *   In order for rte_kvargs_process to stop processing on match error,
+ *   a negative value is returned even if strcmp had returned a positive one.
+ */
+__rte_experimental
+int rte_kvargs_strcmp(const char *key, const char *value, void *opaque);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif