[IRCServices Coding] svcs5 - request

[Andrew Church]

     I'm planning to do this when I redo the database handling, but that
will be in a future version--the current design has settled too much for me
to want to redo it right now.  As things stand now, such additions can
still be done--they just require a separate database.  (Whether this is
more or less efficient than a structure of the kind described below is left
as an exercise for the reader.)

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

> If you realy want other people to write useful modules, then it should b
>e 
>possible for each module to extend the NickServ and ChanServ (and even th
>e 
>others) databases. I suppose that having a:
>
>struct ext_list {
>	struct ext_list	*prev, *next;
>	long		id;
>	size_t		size;
>	void		*buf;
>};
>
>that will form a list for each nickname/channel whould be what we need. I
>t 
>should be easy to save it using the existing database format.
>Also by providing some functions like:
>
>struct ext_list *get_extlist_memb(struct ext_list *head, long id);
>
>void update_extlist_memb(struct ext_list **head, long id, size_t size,
>			void *buf);
>
>/* and one for delete */
>
>it should be very easy to handle it.
>
>Each module will only need to have a fixed unique integer to use and it w
>ill 
>need only one field to be added to struct NickInfo etc.. like:
>
>struct NickInfo {
>	...
>	struct ext_list	*head;
>};
>
>and after that..
>
>/**********************************************/
>
>#define MY_ID	0x1234
>
>	struct NickInfo	*ni;
>	struct ext_list	*el;
>
>	...code...
>
>	update_extlist_memb( &(ni->head), MY_ID, 7, "RANDOM" );
>
>	...code...
>
>	el=get_extlist_memb(ni->head, MY_ID);
>
>	/* and there we have el==NULL or el->buf == "RANDOM" */
>
>/**********************************************/
>
>Something like this whould *REALY* help to add functionality without chan
>ging 
>existing code, without creating another database and will be compatible t
>o 
>future versions.
>
>TIA
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