pkt-line: introduce packet_read_with_status

The current pkt-line API encodes the status of a pkt-line read in the
length of the read content.  An error is indicated with '-1', a flush
with '0' (which can be confusing since a return value of '0' can also
indicate an empty pkt-line), and a positive integer for the length of
the read content otherwise.  This doesn't leave much room for allowing
the addition of additional special packets in the future.

To solve this introduce 'packet_read_with_status()' which reads a packet
and returns the status of the read encoded as an 'enum packet_status'
type.  This allows for easily identifying between special and normal
packets as well as errors.  It also enables easily adding a new special
packet in the future.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkt-line.h b/pkt-line.h
index 3dad583e2d..099b26b95f 100644
--- a/pkt-line.h
+++ b/pkt-line.h
@@ -66,6 +66,22 @@ int packet_read(int fd, char **src_buffer, size_t *src_len, char
 		*buffer, unsigned size, int options);
 
 /*
+ * Read a packetized line into a buffer like the 'packet_read()' function but
+ * returns an 'enum packet_read_status' which indicates the status of the read.
+ * The number of bytes read will be assigined to *pktlen if the status of the
+ * read was 'PACKET_READ_NORMAL'.
+ */
+enum packet_read_status {
+	PACKET_READ_EOF,
+	PACKET_READ_NORMAL,
+	PACKET_READ_FLUSH,
+};
+enum packet_read_status packet_read_with_status(int fd, char **src_buffer,
+						size_t *src_len, char *buffer,
+						unsigned size, int *pktlen,
+						int options);
+
+/*
  * Convenience wrapper for packet_read that is not gentle, and sets the
  * CHOMP_NEWLINE option. The return value is NULL for a flush packet,
  * and otherwise points to a static buffer (that may be overwritten by