doxygen: Add more input format docs.

This is largely taken from the respective wiki page (with some updates
and improvements), which will be removed in favor of the doxygen docs.
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Uwe Hermann 2013-02-21 21:27:27 +01:00
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*
* Input file/data format handling.
*
* libsigrok can process acquisition data in several different ways.
* Aside from acquiring data from a hardware device, it can also take it from
* a file in various formats (binary, CSV, VCD, and so on).
*
* Like everything in libsigrok that handles data, processing is done in a
* streaming manner -- input should be supplied to libsigrok a chunk at a time.
* This way anything that processes data can do so in real time, without the
* user having to wait for the whole thing to be finished.
*
* Every input module is "pluggable", meaning it's handled as being separate
* from the main libsigrok, but linked in to it statically. To keep things
* modular and separate like this, functions within an input module should be
* declared static, with only the respective 'struct sr_input_format' being
* exported for use into the wider libsigrok namespace.
*
* @{
*/

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@ -300,18 +300,71 @@ struct sr_datafeed_analog {
float *data;
};
/** Input (file) format struct. */
struct sr_input {
/**
* A pointer to this input format's 'struct sr_input_format'.
* The frontend can use this to call the module's callbacks.
*/
struct sr_input_format *format;
GHashTable *param;
struct sr_dev_inst *sdi;
void *internal;
};
struct sr_input_format {
/** The unique ID for this input format. Must not be NULL. */
char *id;
/**
* A short description of the input format, which can (for example)
* be displayed to the user by frontends. Must not be NULL.
*/
char *description;
/**
* Check if this input module can load and parse the specified file.
*
* @param filename The name (and path) of the file to check.
*
* @return TRUE if this module knows the format, FALSE if it doesn't.
*/
int (*format_match) (const char *filename);
/**
* Initialize the input module.
*
* @param in A pointer to a valid 'struct sr_input' that the caller
* has to allocate and provide to this function. It is also
* the responsibility of the caller to free it later.
* @param filename The name (and path) of the file to use.
*
* @return SR_OK upon success, a negative error code upon failure.
*/
int (*init) (struct sr_input *in, const char *filename);
/**
* Load a file, parsing the input according to the file's format.
*
* This function will send datafeed packets to the session bus, so
* the calling frontend must have registered its session callbacks
* beforehand.
*
* The packet types sent across the session bus by this function must
* include at least SR_DF_HEADER, SR_DF_END, and an appropriate data
* type such as SR_DF_LOGIC. It may also send a SR_DF_TRIGGER packet
* if appropriate.
*
* @param in A pointer to a valid 'struct sr_input' that the caller
* has to allocate and provide to this function. It is also
* the responsibility of the caller to free it later.
* @param filename The name (and path) of the file to use.
*
* @return SR_OK upon success, a negative error code upon failure.
*/
int (*loadfile) (struct sr_input *in, const char *filename);
};