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+// -*- mode:C++; tab-width:8; c-basic-offset:2; indent-tabs-mode:t -*-
+// vim: ts=8 sw=2 smarttab
+#ifndef CEPH_COMMON_CMDPARSE_H
+#define CEPH_COMMON_CMDPARSE_H
+
+#include <vector>
+#include <stdexcept>
+#include <ostream>
+#include <boost/variant.hpp>
+#include "include/assert.h" // boost clobbers this
+#include "common/Formatter.h"
+#include "common/BackTrace.h"
+
+class CephContext;
+
+/* this is handy; can't believe it's not standard */
+#define ARRAY_SIZE(a) (sizeof(a) / sizeof(*a))
+
+typedef boost::variant<std::string,
+ bool,
+ int64_t,
+ double,
+ std::vector<std::string>,
+ std::vector<int64_t>,
+ std::vector<double>> cmd_vartype;
+typedef std::map<std::string, cmd_vartype> cmdmap_t;
+
+std::string cmddesc_get_prefix(const std::string &cmddesc);
+void dump_cmd_to_json(ceph::Formatter *f, const std::string& cmd);
+void dump_cmd_and_help_to_json(ceph::Formatter *f,
+ const std::string& secname,
+ const std::string& cmd,
+ const std::string& helptext);
+void dump_cmddesc_to_json(ceph::Formatter *jf,
+ const std::string& secname,
+ const std::string& cmdsig,
+ const std::string& helptext,
+ const std::string& module,
+ const std::string& perm,
+ const std::string& avail,
+ uint64_t flags);
+bool cmdmap_from_json(std::vector<std::string> cmd, cmdmap_t *mapp,
+ std::stringstream &ss);
+void cmdmap_dump(const cmdmap_t &cmdmap, ceph::Formatter *f);
+void handle_bad_get(CephContext *cct, const std::string& k, const char *name);
+
+std::string cmd_vartype_stringify(const cmd_vartype& v);
+
+template <typename T>
+bool
+cmd_getval(CephContext *cct, const cmdmap_t& cmdmap, const std::string& k, T& val)
+{
+ if (cmdmap.count(k)) {
+ try {
+ val = boost::get<T>(cmdmap.find(k)->second);
+ return true;
+ } catch (boost::bad_get) {
+ handle_bad_get(cct, k, typeid(T).name());
+ }
+ }
+ return false;
+}
+
+// with default
+
+template <typename T>
+void
+cmd_getval(CephContext *cct, const cmdmap_t& cmdmap, const std::string& k, T& val, const T& defval)
+{
+ if (!cmd_getval(cct, cmdmap, k, val))
+ val = defval;
+}
+
+template <typename T>
+void
+cmd_putval(CephContext *cct, cmdmap_t& cmdmap, const std::string& k, const T& val)
+{
+ cmdmap[k] = val;
+}
+
+extern int parse_osd_id(const char *s, std::ostream *pss);
+extern long parse_pos_long(const char *s, std::ostream *pss = NULL);
+
+#endif