On 03/08/2015 01:39 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
karthik nayak <karthik....@gmail.com> writes:

On 03/07/2015 12:58 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

case 't':
        oi.typep = &type;
        oi.typename = &sb;
        sha1_object_info_extended(sha1, &oi, flags);
        if (sb.len) {
                printf("%s\n", sb.buf);
                strbuf_release(&sb);
                return 0;
        } else if (type) {
                printf("%s\n", typename(type));
                return 0;
        }
        break;

This works but I need an else statement to check the type if not
getting the type literally, which is because if not called literally
the oi.typename is not set,...

Hmph, when I outlined that change to object-info-extended, I meant
to do it in such a way that when the optional oi->typename is set,
it is always filled whether "literally" is asked for andr whether
the object is a kosher one or a bogus one.

Without parsing the header, we wouldn't know how long the object
would be, so I do not know if not doing some variant of parse_header
is an option.

Thanks.


What parse_sha1_header() does to get the type is just find the first occurrence of a " " manually and store everything before it as the type. Then it finds the size of the object if needed. And finally returns the type by calling type_from_string(). This is where we get the undefined type error. When getting the type "literally" we could just find the first occurrence of a " " using strcspn() copy the type to oi->typename and avoid calling parse_sha1_header(). Even your code went along these lines. If "literally" is not set we could call parse_sha1_header() like we regularly would.

Thanks
Karthik
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