Re: [reSIProcate] Accessing a header by name determined at runtime
Hi Ryan,
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Ryan Kereliuk wrote:
On 2007-07-10 at 20h34, Matthew Hodgson wrote:
I'm trying to access a header's value by name - but with a name
determined at runtime (e.g. Data headerName) rather than by a header
token (e.g. h_To). I was assuming that ExtensionHeader could be used
for this by passing in the name of the header when constructing the
ExtensionHeader - but I just realised that it asserts that you're not
trying to define a header which already exists, and so can't be used for
dynamically accessing wellknown header types.
I appreciate this is a bit perverse & contrary to the way resip takes
pains to nicely type & parse known header types - but can anyone suggest
how I might do this?
You could turn your string into a header token first and then use
the standard interface. Since this uses the gperf perfect hash
function, I can't imagine a cheaper way of accomplishing your goal.
Headers::getType(const char* name, int len) does this if my quick grep
through the code is to be believed.
Oops - given that I saw that Headers::getType() is used by ExtensionHeader
to determine whether a specific header type already exists for a given
header name, I should probably have realised that it does so by mapping to
a header token :)
thanks for the assistance!
Matthew.
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