[libvirt] [PATCH libvirt-java 1/2] Return a byte[] array with secretGetValue

Wido den Hollander wido at widodh.nl
Tue Jun 26 08:07:31 UTC 2012


We break the API with this, but Java does not support multiple method signatures with different return types.

The old method returned a String, but since a secret can be binary data this type is not suited.

Users who now that their secret is in fact a String, can use cast with:

Secret secret = conn.secretLookupByUUIDString("uuuuuuuid");
String value = new String(secret.getValue());

Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido at widodh.nl>
---
 src/main/java/org/libvirt/Secret.java      |   13 ++++++++++---
 src/main/java/org/libvirt/jna/Libvirt.java |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/libvirt/Secret.java b/src/main/java/org/libvirt/Secret.java
index 48f7895..39d9122 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/libvirt/Secret.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/libvirt/Secret.java
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ import org.libvirt.jna.SecretPointer;
 
 import com.sun.jna.Native;
 import com.sun.jna.NativeLong;
+import com.sun.jna.ptr.LongByReference;
+import com.sun.jna.Pointer;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 
 /**
  * A secret defined by libvirt
@@ -106,12 +109,16 @@ public class Secret {
 
     /**
      * Fetches the value of the secret
-     * 
+     *
      * @return the value of the secret, or null on failure.
      */
-    public String getValue() throws LibvirtException {
-        String returnValue = libvirt.virSecretGetValue(VSP, new NativeLong(), 0);
+    public byte[] getValue() throws LibvirtException {
+        LongByReference value_size = new LongByReference();
+        Pointer value = libvirt.virSecretGetValue(VSP, value_size, 0);
         processError();
+        ByteBuffer bb = value.getByteBuffer(0, value_size.getValue());
+        byte[] returnValue = new byte[bb.remaining()];
+        bb.get(returnValue);
         return returnValue;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/libvirt/jna/Libvirt.java b/src/main/java/org/libvirt/jna/Libvirt.java
index b1e53a2..f53199d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/libvirt/jna/Libvirt.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/libvirt/jna/Libvirt.java
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ public interface Libvirt extends Library {
     public int virSecretGetUUID(SecretPointer virSecretPtr, byte[] uuidString);
     public int virSecretGetUUIDString(SecretPointer virSecretPtr, byte[] uuidString);
     public String virSecretGetUsageID(SecretPointer virSecretPtr);   
-    public String virSecretGetValue(SecretPointer virSecretPtr, NativeLong value_size, int flags);      
+    public Pointer virSecretGetValue(SecretPointer virSecretPtr, LongByReference value_size, int flags);
     public String virSecretGetXMLDesc(SecretPointer virSecretPtr, int flags);      
     public SecretPointer virSecretLookupByUsage(ConnectionPointer virConnectPtr, int usageType, String usageID);
     public SecretPointer virSecretLookupByUUID(ConnectionPointer virConnectPtr, byte[] uuidBytes);
-- 
1.7.9.5




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