2 * Copyright (C) 2008 Martin Willi
3 * Hochschule fuer Technik Rapperswil
5 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
6 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
7 * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
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10 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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19 * @defgroup attribute_provider attribute_provider
20 * @{ @ingroup attributes
23 #ifndef ATTRIBUTE_PROVIDER_H_
24 #define ATTRIBUTE_PROVIDER_H_
27 #include <utils/host.h>
29 typedef struct attribute_provider_t attribute_provider_t
;
32 * Interface to provide attributes to peers through attribute manager.
34 struct attribute_provider_t
{
37 * Acquire a virtual IP address to assign to a peer.
39 * @param pool name of the pool to acquire address from
41 * @param requested IP in configuration request
42 * @return allocated address, NULL to serve none
44 host_t
* (*acquire_address
)(attribute_provider_t
*this,
45 char *pool
, identification_t
*id
,
48 * Release a previously acquired address.
50 * @param pool name of the pool this address was acquired from
51 * @param address address to release
53 * @return TRUE if the address has been released by the provider
55 bool (*release_address
)(attribute_provider_t
*this,
56 char *pool
, host_t
*address
, identification_t
*id
);
59 * Create an enumerator over attributes to hand out to a peer.
62 * @return enumerator (configuration_attribute_type_t, chunk_t)
64 enumerator_t
* (*create_attribute_enumerator
)(attribute_provider_t
*this,
65 identification_t
*id
);
68 #endif /** ATTRIBUTE_PROVIDER_H_ @}*/