[ libetpan-Feature Requests-1163923 ] C++ friendly interface

Feature Requests item #1163923, was opened at 2005-03-15 10:12
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Category: Interface
Group: libEtPan!
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: David Gal (davidgal)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: C++ friendly interface

Initial Comment:
Interface functions that take "char*" parameters should 
be changed to take "const char*" parameters where 
appropriate. This would certainly making linking to C++ 
applications easier.




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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2005-03-16 01:39

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I've only just started looking at the library so don't know it in 
any huge detail at the moment.

It's not even really a C++ issue just more likely to come up 
because if you use strings in C++ then to pass that string to 
a function that deals with C style strings you use string.c_str
() which returns a const char*. If you're not changing the C 
string you're being passed then there's no reason the 
parameter shouldn't be typed const char*.

for example:

void connect(const char* user, const char* password)
{
    .
    .
    pop3_mailstorage_init(storage, server, 0, 0, 
CONNECTION_TYPE_PLAIN, POP3_AUTH_TYPE_PLAIN, 
user, password, 0, 0, 0);
    .
    .
}

gives the following compiler error:

In function `void connect(const char*, const char*)':
invalid conversion from `const char*' to `char*'
invalid conversion from `const char*' to `char*'

Hope that makes things a little clearer.


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Comment By: DINH V. Hoa (hoa)
Date: 2005-03-15 15:44

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Could you give more details about functions that take char *
that will not be friendly ?

And a patch will allow the feature request to be completed
quicker.


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