On 12/22/2021 11:45 AM, David von
Oheimb wrote:
Yet beware that a general-purpose library function that has (at least) the flexibility offered by that app would need a non-trivial set of parameters.
I suspect that it would end up looking a lot like the existing API. There might be a few shortcuts possible, but fundamentally you need to set a significant (and variable) number of parameters. The straightforward way to do that is with a "create object" function and "set parameter into object" functions - and some of those parameters themselves need a similar set of functions.
The existing API isn't bad, once you figure out how to use it. It's been several years since I wrote a CSR generator and so I don't remember how I figured it out, but I think I might have had to look at req.c rather than finding documentation.
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