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diff --git a/src/libstrongswan/collections/enumerator.h b/src/libstrongswan/collections/enumerator.h
index 55f8d83e6..99f8847e4 100644
--- a/src/libstrongswan/collections/enumerator.h
+++ b/src/libstrongswan/collections/enumerator.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/*
- * Copyright (C) 2013 Tobias Brunner
+ * Copyright (C) 2013-2017 Tobias Brunner
* Copyright (C) 2007 Martin Willi
- * Hochschule fuer Technik Rapperswil
+ * HSR Hochschule fuer Technik Rapperswil
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
@@ -34,8 +34,11 @@ struct enumerator_t {
/**
* Enumerate collection.
*
- * The enumerate function takes a variable argument list containing
- * pointers where the enumerated values get written.
+ * The enumerate() method takes a variable number of pointer arguments
+ * where the enumerated values get written to.
+ *
+ * @note Just assigning the generic enumerator_enumerate_default() function
+ * that calls the enumerator's venumerate() method is usually enough.
*
* @param ... variable list of enumerated items, implementation dependent
* @return TRUE if pointers returned
@@ -43,12 +46,34 @@ struct enumerator_t {
bool (*enumerate)(enumerator_t *this, ...);
/**
- * Destroy a enumerator instance.
+ * Enumerate collection.
+ *
+ * The venumerate() method takes a variable argument list containing
+ * pointers where the enumerated values get written to.
+ *
+ * To simplify the implementation the VA_ARGS_VGET() macro may be used.
+ *
+ * @param args variable list of enumerated items, implementation dependent
+ * @return TRUE if pointers returned
+ */
+ bool (*venumerate)(enumerator_t *this, va_list args);
+
+ /**
+ * Destroy an enumerator_t instance.
*/
void (*destroy)(enumerator_t *this);
};
/**
+ * Generic implementation of enumerator_t::enumerate() that simply calls
+ * the enumerator's venumerate() method.
+ *
+ * @param enumerator the enumerator
+ * @param ... arguments passed to enumerate()
+ */
+bool enumerator_enumerate_default(enumerator_t *enumerator, ...);
+
+/**
* Create an enumerator which enumerates over nothing
*
* @return an enumerator over no values
@@ -147,38 +172,41 @@ enumerator_t* enumerator_create_token(const char *string, const char *sep,
/**
* Creates an enumerator which enumerates over enumerated enumerators :-).
*
- * The variable argument list of enumeration values is limit to 5.
+ * The outer enumerator is expected to return objects that, when passed to
+ * inner_contructor, will create a new enumerator that will be enumerated until
+ * completion (to this enumerator will the pointer arguments that are passed to
+ * this enumerator be forwarded) at which point a new element from the outer
+ * enumerator is requested to create a new inner enumerator.
*
* @param outer outer enumerator
- * @param inner_constructor constructor to inner enumerator
+ * @param inner_constructor constructor to create inner enumerator
* @param data data to pass to each inner_constructor call
- * @param destroy_data destructor to pass to data
+ * @param destructor destructor function to clean up data after use
* @return the nested enumerator
*/
enumerator_t *enumerator_create_nested(enumerator_t *outer,
enumerator_t *(*inner_constructor)(void *outer, void *data),
- void *data, void (*destroy_data)(void *data));
+ void *data, void (*destructor)(void *data));
/**
- * Creates an enumerator which filters output of another enumerator.
+ * Creates an enumerator which filters/maps output of another enumerator.
*
- * The filter function receives the user supplied "data" followed by a
- * unfiltered enumeration item, followed by an output pointer where to write
- * the filtered data. Then the next input/output pair follows.
- * It returns TRUE to deliver the
- * values to the caller of enumerate(), FALSE to filter this enumeration.
+ * The filter function receives the user supplied "data" followed by the
+ * original enumerator, followed by the arguments passed to the outer
+ * enumerator. It returns TRUE to deliver the values assigned to these
+ * arguments to the caller of enumerate() and FALSE to end the enumeration.
+ * Filtering items is simple as the filter function may just skip enumerated
+ * items from the original enumerator.
*
- * The variable argument list of enumeration values is limit to 5.
- *
- * @param unfiltered unfiltered enumerator to wrap, gets destroyed
+ * @param orig original enumerator to wrap, gets destroyed
* @param filter filter function
* @param data user data to supply to filter
* @param destructor destructor function to clean up data after use
* @return the filtered enumerator
*/
-enumerator_t *enumerator_create_filter(enumerator_t *unfiltered,
- bool (*filter)(void *data, ...),
- void *data, void (*destructor)(void *data));
+enumerator_t *enumerator_create_filter(enumerator_t *orig,
+ bool (*filter)(void *data, enumerator_t *orig, va_list args),
+ void *data, void (*destructor)(void *data));
/**
* Create an enumerator wrapper which does a cleanup on destroy.