error.h

   1 /*
   2  * QEMU Error Objects
   3  *
   4  * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2011
   5  *
   6  * Authors:
   7  *  Anthony Liguori   <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
   8  *
   9  * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2.  See
  10  * the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
  11  */
  12 #ifndef ERROR_H
  13 #define ERROR_H
  14
  15 #include <stdbool.h>
  16
  17 /**
  18  * A class representing internal errors within QEMU.  An error has a string
  19  * typename and optionally a set of named string parameters.
  20  */
  21 typedef struct Error Error;
  22
  23 /**
  24  * Set an indirect pointer to an error given a printf-style format parameter.
  25  * Currently, qerror.h defines these error formats.  This function is not
  26  * meant to be used outside of QEMU.
  27  */
  28 void error_set(Error **err, const char *fmt, ...) GCC_FMT_ATTR(2, 3);
  29
  30 /**
  31  * Returns true if an indirect pointer to an error is pointing to a valid
  32  * error object.
  33  */
  34 bool error_is_set(Error **err);
  35
  36 /**
  37  * Get a human readable representation of an error object.
  38  */
  39 const char *error_get_pretty(Error *err);
  40
  41 /**
  42  * Get an individual named error field.
  43  */
  44 const char *error_get_field(Error *err, const char *field);
  45
  46 /**
  47  * Get an individual named error field.
  48  */
  49 void error_set_field(Error *err, const char *field, const char *value);
  50
  51 /**
  52  * Propagate an error to an indirect pointer to an error.  This function will
  53  * always transfer ownership of the error reference and handles the case where
  54  * dst_err is NULL correctly.
  55  */
  56 void error_propagate(Error **dst_err, Error *local_err);
  57
  58 /**
  59  * Free an error object.
  60  */
  61 void error_free(Error *err);
  62
  63 /**
  64  * Determine if an error is of a speific type (based on the qerror format).
  65  * Non-QEMU users should get the `class' field to identify the error type.
  66  */
  67 bool error_is_type(Error *err, const char *fmt);
  68
  69 #endif