Working directly with Eina_Slice is easier than a pointer to it,
requires no validation of the pointers and is cheap since it's just
putting together size_t + void*.
However we can't hint the user of 'const(Eina.Slice)' properties as
Eolian is incorrectly generating getters as:
const Eina_Slice class_property_get(...)
which is makes compilers complain about ignored qualifiers:
../src/lib/ecore/efl_io_copier.eo.h:329:7: warning: 'const' type qualifier on return type has no effect [-Wignored-qualifiers]
Leave some TODO so @q66 can fix those.
This is a string parser, serializer and asynchronous resolver.
It's purpose is to convert to and from the strings we use in our
dialers and servers, such as "127.0.0.1:1234" or "[::1]:1234",
properties allow to check the family, port, address bytes (slice) and
even get a struct sockaddr pointer to use with bind()/connect() in
outside code.
It will also offer some utilities present in netinet/in.h in an easy
to use way, after all IN6_IS_ADDR_LOOPBACK() works one way, while
there is no IN_LOOPBACK and comparing with INADDR_LOOPBACK will lead
to errors since it's in network order.
Last but not least, it will do asynchronous resolve of host and port
names using an internal thread and getaddrinfo(). The results are
delivered using a Future with an array of objects.
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri