[PATCH] more data structures public in mongoose.h

[Joel Sherrill]

On 11/19/2014 1:24 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Due to the license change, we can consider our version of Mongoose as
> "RTEMS Project" maintained for now. I don't know if anyone is
> maintaining a fork with an appropriate license.
There is a fork with the appropriate license.

https://github.com/sunsetbrew/civetweb

Looks like it has some activity. But in general, I agree.

> Moving the struct definitions to the header file is sensible, although
> the usual caveat is that users might have namespace conflicts.
>
> Gedare
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Ben Gras <beng at shrike-systems.com> wrote:
>> The attached patch is a proposed solution to a problem I am having with
>> interfacing with the mongoose httpd for which I've found no canonical (or
>> any other) clean solution.
>>
>> The problem is that some of the data structures needed for some operations,
>> specifically writing callbacks that get invoked for some HTTP requests, are
>> declared in mongoose.c and therefore are not available to external programs,
>> i.e. clients of mongoose. This is the mg_connection struct & its
>> dependencies. It is passed as an argument to callbacks, and even without
>> referencing the object the code won't compile if the struct isn't fully
>> known.
>>
>> The change is moving some declarations from mongoose.c to mongoose.h.
>>
>> Unfortunately this diverges from the original code, then again mongoose
>> isn't tracked any more since the license change I take it, so perhaps that's
>> not so bad. I've made the changes __rtems__-conditional so it's clear where
>> the divergence is.
>>
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