Add more flexible funtions to qpdfjob C API

ChangeLog

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2022-06-18  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
 
+        * Add additional qpdfjob C API functions take a handle.
+
         * Add qpdf_exit_code_e to Constants.h so that exit codes from
         QPDFJob are accessible to the C API.
 

include/qpdf/QPDFJob.hh

@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ class QPDFJob
     // and error streams on the caller's behalf. Defaults to "qpdf".
     QPDF_DLL
     void setMessagePrefix(std::string const&);
+    QPDF_DLL
+    std::string getMessagePrefix() const;
 
     // To capture or redirect output, configure the logger returned by
     // getLogger(). By default, all QPDF and QPDFJob objects share the

include/qpdf/qpdfjob-c.h

@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
 #endif
+    /* SHORT INTERFACE -- These functions are single calls that take
+     * care of the whole life cycle of QPDFJob. They can be used for
+     * one-shot ooperations where no additional configuration is
+     * needed. See FULL INTERFACE below. */
+
     /* This function does the equivalent of running the qpdf
      * command-line with the given arguments and returns the exit code
      * that qpdf would use. argv must be a null-terminated array of
@@ -74,6 +79,52 @@ extern "C" {
     QPDF_DLL
     int qpdfjob_run_from_json(char const* json);
 
+    /* FULL INTERFACE -- new in qpdf11. Similar to the qpdf-c.h API,
+     * you must call qpdfjob_init to get a qpdfjob_handle and, when
+     * done, call qpdfjob_cleanup to free resources. Remaining methods
+     * take qpdfjob_handle as an argument. This interface requires
+     * more calls but also offers greater flexibility.
+     */
+    typedef struct _qpdfjob_handle* qpdfjob_handle;
+    QPDF_DLL
+    qpdfjob_handle qpdfjob_init();
+
+    QPDF_DLL
+    void qpdfjob_cleanup(qpdfjob_handle* j);
+
+    /* This function wraps QPDFJob::initializeFromArgv. The return
+     * value is the same as qpdfjob_run. If this returns an error, it
+     * is invalid to call any other functions this job handle.
+     */
+    QPDF_DLL
+    int
+    qpdfjob_initialize_from_argv(qpdfjob_handle j, char const* const argv[]);
+
+#ifndef QPDF_NO_WCHAR_T
+    /* This function is the same as qpdfjob_initialize_from_argv
+     * except argv is encoded with wide characters. This would be
+     * suitable for calling from a Windows wmain function.
+     */
+    QPDF_DLL
+    int qpdfjob_initialize_from_wide_argv(
+        qpdfjob_handle j, wchar_t const* const argv[]);
+#endif /* QPDF_NO_WCHAR_T */
+
+    /* This function wraps QPDFJob::initializeFromJson. The return
+     * value is the same as qpdfjob_run. If this returns an error, it
+     * is invalid to call any other functions this job handle.
+     */
+    QPDF_DLL
+    int qpdfjob_initialize_from_json(qpdfjob_handle j, char const* json);
+
+    /* This function wraps QPDFJob::run. It returns the error code
+     * that qpdf would return with the equivalent command-line
+     * invocation. Exit code values are defined in Constants.h in the
+     * qpdf_exit_code_e type.
+     */
+    QPDF_DLL
+    int qpdfjob_run(qpdfjob_handle j);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif

libqpdf/QPDFJob.cc

@@ -438,6 +438,12 @@ QPDFJob::setMessagePrefix(std::string const& message_prefix)
     this->m->message_prefix = message_prefix;
 }
 
+std::string
+QPDFJob::getMessagePrefix() const
+{
+    return this->m->message_prefix;
+}
+
 std::shared_ptr<QPDFLogger>
 QPDFJob::getLogger()
 {

libqpdf/qpdfjob-c.cc

@@ -8,51 +8,115 @@
 #include <cstdio>
 #include <cstring>
 
-int
+struct _qpdfjob_handle
-qpdfjob_run_from_argv(char const* const argv[])
 {
-    auto whoami_p = QUtil::make_unique_cstr(argv[0]);
+    _qpdfjob_handle() = default;
-    auto whoami = QUtil::getWhoami(whoami_p.get());
+    ~_qpdfjob_handle() = default;
-    QUtil::setLineBuf(stdout);
 
     QPDFJob j;
+};
+
+qpdfjob_handle
+qpdfjob_init()
+{
+    return new _qpdfjob_handle;
+}
+
+void
+qpdfjob_cleanup(qpdfjob_handle* j)
+{
+    delete *j;
+    *j = nullptr;
+}
+
+static int
+wrap_qpdfjob(qpdfjob_handle j, std::function<int(qpdfjob_handle j)> fn)
+{
     try {
-        j.initializeFromArgv(argv);
+        return fn(j);
-        j.run();
     } catch (std::exception& e) {
-        *QPDFLogger::defaultLogger()->getError()
+        *j->j.getLogger()->getError()
-            << whoami << ": " << e.what() << "\n";
+            << j->j.getMessagePrefix() << ": " << e.what() << "\n";
-        return QPDFJob::EXIT_ERROR;
     }
-    return j.getExitCode();
+    return QPDFJob::EXIT_ERROR;
+}
+
+int
+qpdfjob_initialize_from_argv(qpdfjob_handle j, char const* const argv[])
+{
+    return wrap_qpdfjob(j, [argv](qpdfjob_handle jh) {
+        jh->j.initializeFromArgv(argv);
+        return 0;
+    });
 }
 
 #ifndef QPDF_NO_WCHAR_T
 int
-qpdfjob_run_from_wide_argv(wchar_t const* const argv[])
+qpdfjob_initialize_from_wide_argv(qpdfjob_handle j, wchar_t const* const argv[])
 {
     int argc = 0;
     for (auto k = argv; *k; ++k) {
         ++argc;
     }
     return QUtil::call_main_from_wmain(
-        argc, argv, [](int, char const* const new_argv[]) {
+        argc, argv, [j](int, char const* const new_argv[]) {
-            return qpdfjob_run_from_argv(new_argv);
+            return qpdfjob_initialize_from_argv(j, new_argv);
         });
 }
 #endif // QPDF_NO_WCHAR_T
 
 int
-qpdfjob_run_from_json(char const* json)
+qpdfjob_initialize_from_json(qpdfjob_handle j, char const* json)
 {
-    QPDFJob j;
+    return wrap_qpdfjob(j, [json](qpdfjob_handle jh) {
-    try {
+        jh->j.setMessagePrefix("qpdfjob json");
-        j.initializeFromJson(json);
+        jh->j.initializeFromJson(json);
-        j.run();
+        return 0;
-    } catch (std::exception& e) {
+    });
-        *QPDFLogger::defaultLogger()->getError()
-            << "qpdfjob json: " << e.what() << "\n";
-        return QPDFJob::EXIT_ERROR;
-    }
-    return j.getExitCode();
 }
+
+int
+qpdfjob_run(qpdfjob_handle j)
+{
+    QUtil::setLineBuf(stdout);
+    return wrap_qpdfjob(j, [](qpdfjob_handle jh) {
+        jh->j.run();
+        return jh->j.getExitCode();
+    });
+}
+
+static int run_with_handle(std::function<int(qpdfjob_handle)> fn)
+{
+    auto j = qpdfjob_init();
+    int status = fn(j);
+    if (status == 0) {
+        status = qpdfjob_run(j);
+    }
+    qpdfjob_cleanup(&j);
+    return status;
+}
+
+int qpdfjob_run_from_argv(char const* const argv[])
+{
+    return run_with_handle([argv](qpdfjob_handle j) {
+        return qpdfjob_initialize_from_argv(j, argv);
+    });
+}
+
+#ifndef QPDF_NO_WCHAR_T
+int
+qpdfjob_run_from_wide_argv(wchar_t const* const argv[])
+{
+    return run_with_handle([argv](qpdfjob_handle j) {
+        return qpdfjob_initialize_from_wide_argv(j, argv);
+    });
+}
+#endif /* QPDF_NO_WCHAR_T */
+
+int qpdfjob_run_from_json(char const* json)
+{
+    return run_with_handle([json](qpdfjob_handle j) {
+        return qpdfjob_initialize_from_json(j, json);
+    });
+}
+

manual/release-notes.rst

@@ -188,6 +188,13 @@ For a detailed list of changes, please see the file
       writing large amounts of data without having to keep everything
       in memory.
 
+    - Add new functions to the C API for qpdfjob that use a
+      ``qpdfjob_handle``. Like with the regular C API for qpdf, you
+      have to call ``qpdfjob_init`` first, pass the handle to the
+      functions, and call ``qpdfjob_cleanup`` at the end. This
+      interface offers more flexibility than the old interface, which
+      remains available.
+
   - Other changes
 
     - In JSON v1 mode, the ``"objects"`` key now reflects the repaired

qpdf/qtest/qpdf/qpdfjob-ctest.out

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 argv test passed
 json test passed
 WARNING: xref-with-short-size.pdf (xref stream, offset 16227): Cross-reference stream data has the wrong size; expected = 52; actual = 56
-qpdf: operation succeeded with warnings; resulting file may have some problems
+qpdfjob json: operation succeeded with warnings; resulting file may have some problems
 json warn test passed
 qpdfjob json: an output file name is required; use - for standard output
 json error test passed