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  <span style="float:right">systemd 221</span><hr><div class="refentry"><a name="sd_bus_path_encode"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>sd_bus_path_encode, sd_bus_path_decode — Convert an external identifier into an object path and back</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><pre class="funcsynopsisinfo">#include &lt;systemd/sd-bus.h&gt;</pre><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">sd_bus_path_encode</b>(</code></td><td>const char *<var class="pdparam">prefix</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>const char *<var class="pdparam">external_id</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>char **<var class="pdparam">ret_path</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">sd_bus_path_decode</b>(</code></td><td>const char *<var class="pdparam">path</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>const char *<var class="pdparam">prefix</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>char **<var class="pdparam">ret_external_id</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm47623234167024"></a><h2 id="Description">Description<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Description">¶</a></h2><p><code class="function">sd_bus_path_encode()</code> and
    <code class="function">sd_bus_path_decode()</code> convert external
    identifier strings into object paths and back. These functions are
    useful to map application-specific string identifiers of any kind
    into bus object paths in a simple, reversible and safe way.</p><p><code class="function">sd_bus_path_encode()</code> takes a bus path
    prefix and an external identifier string as arguments, plus a
    place to store the returned bus path string. The bus path prefix
    must be a valid bus path, starting with a slash
    "<code class="literal">/</code>", and not ending in one. The external
    identifier string may be in any format, may be the empty string,
    and has no restrictions on the charset — however, it must
    always be <code class="constant">NUL</code>-terminated. The returned string
    will be the concatenation of the bus path prefix plus an escaped
    version of the external identifier string. This operation may be
    reversed with <code class="function">sd_bus_decode()</code>. It is
    recommended to only use external identifiers that generally
    require little escaping to be turned into valid bus path
    identifiers (for example, by sticking to a 7-bit ASCII character
    set), in order to ensure the resulting bus path is still short and
    easily processed.</p><p><code class="function">sd_bus_path_decode()</code> reverses the
    operation of <code class="function">sd_bus_path_encode()</code> and thus
    regenerates an external identifier string from a bus path. It
    takes a bus path and a prefix string, plus a place to store the
    returned external identifier string. If the bus path does not
    start with the specified prefix, 0 is returned and the returned
    string is set to <code class="constant">NULL</code>. Otherwise, the
    string following the prefix is unescaped and returned in the
    external identifier string.</p><p>The escaping used will replace all characters which are
    invalid in a bus object path by "<code class="literal">_</code>", followed by a
    hexadecimal value. As a special case, the empty string will be
    replaced by a lone "<code class="literal">_</code>".</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm47623235632784"></a><h2 id="Return Value">Return Value<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Return%20Value">¶</a></h2><p>On success, <code class="function">sd_bus_path_encode()</code>
    returns positive or 0, and a valid bus path in the return
    argument. On success, <code class="function">sd_bus_path_decode()</code>
    returns a positive value if the prefixed matched, or 0 if it
    did not. If the prefix matched, the external identifier is returned
    in the return parameter. If it did not match, NULL is returned in
    the return parameter. On failure, a negative errno-style error
    number is returned by either function. The returned strings must
    be
    <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/free.3.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">free</span>(3)</span></a>'d
    by the caller.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm47623235089248"></a><h2 id="Notes">Notes<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Notes">¶</a></h2><p><code class="function">sd_bus_path_encode()</code> and
    <code class="function">sd_bus_path_decode()</code> are available as a
    shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the
    <code class="constant">libsystemd</code> <a href="http://linux.die.net/man/1/pkg-config"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pkg-config</span>(1)</span></a>
    file.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm47623233520256"></a><h2 id="See Also">See Also<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#See%20Also">¶</a></h2><p>
      <a href="systemd.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd</span>(1)</span></a>,
      <a href="sd-bus.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sd-bus</span>(3)</span></a>,
      <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/free.3.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">free</span>(3)</span></a>
    </p></div></div></body></html>