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Allow JackMetadata::GetProperty(ies) to return single char values
Problem:
#set two properties for UUID 4294967296
$ jack_property -s 4294967296 "a" 1
$ jack_property -s 4294967296 b "2"
#-l lists them
$ jack_property -l
4294967296
key: b value: 2
key: a value: 1
#-l for UUID doesn't list them <<<<<<
$ jack_property -l 4294967296
$ jack_property -l 4294967296 a
Value not found for a of 4294967296
$ jack_property -l 4294967296 b
Value not found for b of 4294967296
#it seems that 3 chars is the minimum length for value when querying for UUID
$ jack_property -s 4294967296 a 123
$ jack_property -l 4294967296
key: a value: 123
$ jack_property -l 4294967296 a
123
In example-clients/property.c:
/* list all properties for a given UUID */
if ((cnt = jack_get_properties (uuid, &description)) < 0) {
fprintf (stderr, "could not retrieve properties for %s\n", subject);
exit (1);
}
cnt is always 0 for values < 3 chars. Why?
In common/JackMetadata.cpp:
int JackMetadata::GetProperty(jack_uuid_t subject, const char* key, char** value, char** type)
int JackMetadata::GetProperties(jack_uuid_t subject, jack_description_t* desc)
This loop gets results:
while ((ret = cursor->get (cursor, &key, &data, DB_NEXT)) == 0) {
but are dropped because of this check:
/* result must have at least 2 chars plus 2 nulls to be valid
if (data.size < 4) {
This rule isn't understood. Explanations are welcome!
Reducing the check to 2 (1 char + null) will consider single char values.
This makes listing properties for a given UUID the same keys as when listing all UUIDs and keys.
No side-effects of lowering the value has been detected (yet).
Note: there is no problem getting "short" values in this method:
int JackMetadata::GetAllProperties(jack_description_t** descriptions)
(as used by jack_property -l without UUID)
jack_property output after change to (data.size < 2):
$ jack_property -s 4294967296 "a" 1
$ jack_property -s 4294967296 b "2"
$ jack_property -l
4294967296
key: b value: 2
key: a value: 1
$ jack_property -l 4294967296
key: b value: 2
key: a value: 1
$ jack_property -l 4294967296 a
1
$ jack_property -l 4294967296 b
2
Note: This change should be considered also for JACK1 (libjack/metadata.c)
to keep implementations in sync.
tags/v1.9.13