Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:54:43 +0100
add cx_tree_search() - relates to #165
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28 /**
29 * \file tree.h
30 * \brief Interface for tree implementations.
31 * \author Mike Becker
32 * \author Olaf Wintermann
33 * \copyright 2-Clause BSD License
34 */
36 #ifndef UCX_TREE_H
37 #define UCX_TREE_H
39 #include "common.h"
41 #ifdef __cplusplus
42 extern "C" {
43 #endif
46 /**
47 * Links a node to a (new) parent.
48 *
49 * If the node has already a parent, it is unlinked, first.
50 * If the parent has children already, the node is prepended to the list
51 * of all currently existing children.
52 *
53 * @param parent the parent node
54 * @param node the node that shall be linked
55 * @param loc_parent offset in the node struct for the parent pointer
56 * @param loc_children offset in the node struct for the children linked list
57 * @param loc_prev offset in the node struct for the prev pointer
58 * @param loc_next offset in the node struct for the next pointer
59 * @see cx_tree_unlink()
60 */
61 __attribute__((__nonnull__))
62 void cx_tree_link(
63 void * restrict parent,
64 void * restrict node,
65 ptrdiff_t loc_parent,
66 ptrdiff_t loc_children,
67 ptrdiff_t loc_prev,
68 ptrdiff_t loc_next
69 );
71 /**
72 * Unlinks a node from its parent.
73 *
74 * If the node has no parent, this function does nothing.
75 *
76 * @param node the node that shall be unlinked from its parent
77 * @param loc_parent offset in the node struct for the parent pointer
78 * @param loc_children offset in the node struct for the children linked list
79 * @param loc_prev offset in the node struct for the prev pointer
80 * @param loc_next offset in the node struct for the next pointer
81 * @see cx_tree_link()
82 */
83 __attribute__((__nonnull__))
84 void cx_tree_unlink(
85 void *node,
86 ptrdiff_t loc_parent,
87 ptrdiff_t loc_children,
88 ptrdiff_t loc_prev,
89 ptrdiff_t loc_next
90 );
92 /**
93 * Function pointer for a search function.
94 *
95 * A function of this kind shall check if the specified \p node
96 * contains the given \p data or if one of the children might contain
97 * the data.
98 *
99 * The function should use the returned integer to indicate how close the
100 * match is, where a negative number means that it does not match at all.
101 *
102 * For example if a tree stores file path information, a node that is
103 * describing a parent directory of a filename that is searched, shall
104 * return a positive number to indicate that a child node might contain the
105 * searched item. On the other hand, if the node denotes a path that is not a
106 * prefix of the searched filename, the function would return -1 to indicate
107 * that * the search does not need to be continued in that branch.
108 *
109 * @param node the node that is currently investigated
110 * @param data the data that is searched for
111 *
112 * @return 0 if the node contains the data,
113 * positive if one of the children might contain the data,
114 * negative if neither the node, nor the children contains the data
115 */
116 typedef int (*cx_tree_search_func)(void const *node, void const* data);
119 /**
120 * Searches for data in a tree.
121 *
122 * When the data cannot be found exactly, the search function might return a
123 * closest result which might be a good starting point for adding a new node
124 * to the tree.
125 *
126 * Depending on the tree structure it is not necessarily guaranteed that the
127 * "closest" match is uniquely defined. This function will search for a node
128 * with the best match according to the \p sfunc (meaning: the return value of
129 * \p sfunc which is closest to zero). If that is also ambiguous, an arbitrary
130 * node matching the criteria is returned.
131 *
132 * @param root the root node
133 * @param data the data to search for
134 * @param sfunc the search function
135 * @param result where the result shall be stored
136 * @param loc_children offset in the node struct for the children linked list
137 * @param loc_next offset in the node struct for the next pointer
138 * @return zero if the node was found exactly, positive if a node was found that
139 * could contain the node (but doesn't right now), negative if the tree does not
140 * contain any node that might be related to the searched data
141 */
142 __attribute__((__nonnull__))
143 int cx_tree_search(
144 void const *root,
145 void const *data,
146 cx_tree_search_func sfunc,
147 void **result,
148 ptrdiff_t loc_children,
149 ptrdiff_t loc_next
150 );
152 #ifdef __cplusplus
153 } // extern "C"
154 #endif
156 #endif //UCX_TREE_H