Implementing it

Create a BonoboItemHandler. This component will let you do argument parsing of any kind.

You have to provide two functions: enumObjects (this can be empty) and getObject.

The getObject function will be called when the moniker mechanism is trying to resolve a set of arguments to your function.

Like this:

Bonobo_Unknown
getObject (BonoboItemHandler *h, const char *item_name,
           gboolean only_if_exists, gpointer data,
           CORBA_Environment *ev)
{
        MyData *m = data;
                                                                        
        if (strcmp (item_name, "friendly") == 0){
                m->friendly = true;
        }
                                                                        
        /* we just return ourselves */
        return bonobo_object_dup_ref (bonobo_object_corba_objref (h), NULL);
}
	

So basically during the `getObject' operation you will be given a chance to process the `item_name' string which is basically like a command line argument (for the sake of explaining this) and based on this information you can customize your component.

Sample functions

Sometimes you will want to specify a bunch of options to configure your component, like this:

OAFIID:MyComponent!visible=true;image=blah.png

So we are separating the various options with semi-colons here. To simplify your code, we have provided a couple of functions that given the following string:

visible=true;image=blah.png

Will return a GList split with BonoboItemOptions:

GSList *l, *x;
									
x = bonobo_item_option_parse ("visible=true;image=blah.png");
									
for (l = x; l != NULL; l++){
	BonoboItemOption *io = l->data;
									
	printf ("Key=%s, Value=%s\n", io->key, io->value);
}
bonobo_item_option_free (x);
	

BonoboItemHandler

typedef struct _BonoboItemHandler BonoboItemHandler;

Bonobo::ItemHandler implementation

BonoboItemHandlerClass

typedef struct {
	BonoboObjectClass parent_class;

	POA_Bonobo_ItemContainer__epv epv;
} BonoboItemHandlerClass;

BonoboItemHandler class

bonobo_item_handler_new ()

BonoboItemHandler*  bonobo_item_handler_new             (BonoboItemHandlerEnumObjectsFn enum_objects,
                                                         BonoboItemHandlerGetObjectFn get_object,
                                                         gpointer user_data);

Creates a new BonoboItemHandler object. These are used to hold client sites.

bonobo_item_handler_new_closure ()

BonoboItemHandler*  bonobo_item_handler_new_closure     (GClosure *enum_objects,
                                                         GClosure *get_object);

Creates a new BonoboItemHandler object. These are used to hold client sites.

bonobo_item_handler_construct ()

BonoboItemHandler*  bonobo_item_handler_construct       (BonoboItemHandler *handler,
                                                         GClosure *enum_objects,
                                                         GClosure *get_object);

Constructs the container BonoboObject using the provided closures for the actual implementation.

BonoboItemOption

typedef struct {
	char *key;
	char *value;
} BonoboItemOption;

A key-value pair.

bonobo_item_option_parse ()

GSList*             bonobo_item_option_parse            (const char *option_string);

bonobo_item_options_free ()

void                bonobo_item_options_free            (GSList *options);

Use this to release a list returned by bonobo_item_option_parse()