api: string type to convert to vector

Previous use of strndup() required user to remember to call free().
Now return a vector pointing directly to the API message string.
Of course user must remember to copy the string out if lifetime
is longer than API message lifetime.

Change-Id: Ib5e2b3d52d258e1a42ea9ea9a9e04abbe360e2bf
Type: fix
Signed-off-by: Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/src/vlibapi/api_types.h b/src/vlibapi/api_types.h
index 406ccfa6745..0289a417c79 100644
--- a/src/vlibapi/api_types.h
+++ b/src/vlibapi/api_types.h
@@ -31,31 +31,4 @@ typedef struct
   u8 buf[0];
 } __attribute__ ((packed)) vl_api_string_t;
 
-static inline int
-vl_api_to_api_string (u32 len, const char *buf, vl_api_string_t * str)
-{
-  memcpy(str->buf, buf, len);
-  str->length = htonl (len);
-  return len + sizeof (u32);
-}
-
-/* Return a pointer to the API string (not nul terminated */
-static inline u8 *
-vl_api_from_api_string (vl_api_string_t * astr)
-{
-  return astr->buf;
-}
-
-static inline u32
-vl_api_string_len (vl_api_string_t * astr)
-{
-  return ntohl (astr->length);
-}
-
-static inline char *
-vl_api_from_api_string_c (vl_api_string_t *astr)
-{
-  return strndup((char *)astr->buf, ntohl (astr->length));
-}
-
 #endif