Re: [Libevent-users] API question: struct evkeyval

[Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Mark Ellzey <mthomas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 07:39:02PM +0400, Leonid Evdokimov wrote:
>> evhttp_parse_query and evhttp_parse_query_str require preallocated
>> struct evkeyvalq that has unstable ABI according to section 2.1 of
>> whatsnew-2.0.txt
>>
>> But these functions are placed in "stable ABI" header event2/http.h
>>
>> Maybe, there these functions should be placed into _compat, _internal
>> or something like that in release 2.1 ?
>> Another options is to introduce something simple like evkeyval_new /
>> evkeyval_free in addition to evhttp_clear_headers.
>>
>
>
> I'll be pushing something much like this soonish. Uses same tailq but
> with more options. We'll see how the world thinks of it.

I'm in favor, generally.  I think making evkeyvalq into an opaque type
would probably be the best approach here, to be consonant with the
rest of the libevent API.

-- 
Nick
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