export bt_ctf_field_type_{integer_get_base,string_get_encoding}

[milianw]

These two functions are useful when you want to write a custom CTF analyzer using libbacktrace

[milianw]

I just realize there's bt_ctf_get_encoding and bt_ctf_get_int_base which can be used as alternatives for now. I still think it would be good to have these functions available though.

[jgalar]

Hi Milian,

The functions you exported are exclusively used by the CTF-Writer API.
For the reader-side of the Babeltrace 1.x API, see include/babeltrace/ctf/events.h.

Both bt_ctf_get_encoding and bt_ctf_get_int_base are available in the "reader" header. The 1.x API is not fresh to my mind, but I think that to determine if an array or a sequence contains a string, you need to:

1. access the first element of the array/sequence
2. get the element's declaration (see bt_ctf_get_decl_from_def())
3. use that declaration with bt_ctf_get_encoding and bt_ctf_get_int_base to emulate the logic of bt_int_is_char() (see types/integer.c)

Does that work?

[jgalar]

Note that there is no way to access the alignment property of a bt_declaration. Hence, that part of the check is not possible without adding a suitable accessor.