CDE

NAME

DtDtsDataTypeToAttributeList − get a list of attributes for a data type

SYNOPSIS

#include <Dt/Dts.h> DtDtsAttribute ∗∗DtDtsDataTypeToAttributeList(const char ∗datatype,  const char ∗opt_name);

DESCRIPTION

The DtDtsDataTypeToAttributeList function returns a list of attributes for a data type. 

The datatype argument is a pointer to a data type name string. 

The opt_name argument can be used to specify a name to be associated with the data type.  If the opt_name argument is not NULL, it is used as a pseudo file name in typing; otherwise, certain attributes may be returned as NULL because the filename components could not be determined. 

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, the DtDtsDataTypeToAttributeList function returns a NULL-terminated array of pointers of ∗DtDtsAttribute, or NULL if no value could be determined. 

APPLICATION USAGE

The application should use the DtDtsFreeAttributeList3 function to release the memory for the returned value. 

The opt_name argument is useful when the attribute being returned contains a modifier string that depends on having a file name included.  For example, if the INSTANCE_ICON attribute had the value %name%.icon, opt_name would be used to derive the %name% portion of the attribute value.  See dtdtsfile(4). 

SEE ALSO

Dt/Dts.h, DtDtsLoadDataTypes3, DtDtsFreeAttributeList3.