openssl/doc/man3/OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX.pod
Richard Levitte c3e4c1f325 DESERIALIZER: Add foundation for deserializers
This adds a method OSSL_DESERIALIZER, a deserializer context and basic
support to use a set of serializers to get a desired type of data, as
well as deserializer chains.

The idea is that the caller can call OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX_add_serializer()
to set up the set of desired results, and to add possible chains, call
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX_add_extra().  All these deserializers are pushed
on an internal stack.

The actual deserialization is then performed using functions like
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_from_bio().  When performing deserialization, the
inernal stack is walked backwards, keeping track of the deserialized
data and its type along the way, until the data kan be processed into
the desired type of data.

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12410)
2020-07-24 16:32:00 +02:00

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=pod
=head1 NAME
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX,
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX_new,
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_settable_ctx_params,
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX_set_params,
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX_free
- Serializer context routines
=head1 SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/deserializer.h>
typedef struct ossl_deserializer_ctx_st OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX;
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX *OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX_new(OPENSSL_CTX *libctx);
const OSSL_PARAM *OSSL_DESERIALIZER_settable_ctx_params(OSSL_DESERIALIZER *deser);
int OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX_set_params(OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX *ctx,
const OSSL_PARAM params[]);
void OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX_free(OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX *ctx);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
B<OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX> is a context with which B<OSSL_DESERIALIZER>
operations are performed. The context typically holds values, both
internal and supplied by the application, which are useful for the
implementations supplied by providers.
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX_new() creates a new empty B<OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX>.
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_settable_ctx_params() returns an L<OSSL_PARAM(3)>
array of parameter descriptors.
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX_set_params() attempts to set parameters specified
with an L<OSSL_PARAM(3)> array I<params>. These parameters are passed
to all deserializers that have been added to the I<ctx> so far.
Parameters that an implementation doesn't recognise should be ignored
by it.
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX_free() frees the given context I<ctx>.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX_new() returns a pointer to a
B<OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX>, or NULL if the context structure couldn't be
allocated.
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_settable_ctx_params() returns an L<OSSL_PARAM(3)>
array, or NULL if none is available.
OSSL_DESERIALIZER_CTX_set_params() returns 1 if all recognised
parameters were valid, or 0 if one of them was invalid or caused some
other failure in the implementation.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<provider(7)>, L<OSSL_DESERIALIZER(3)>, L<OSSL_DESERIALIZER_from_bio(3)>
=head1 HISTORY
The functions described here were added in OpenSSL 3.0.
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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