Callout Configuration

Functions for registering callouts. More...

Detailed Description

Functions for registering callouts.

This section defines operations for registering callouts. Callouts may be registered either through a configuration file or through calls to globus_callout_register.

Function Documentation

globus_result_t globus_callout_read_config	(	globus_callout_handle_t	handle,
		char *	filename
	)

Read callout configuration from file.

This function read a configuration file with the following format:

Anything after a '#' is assumed to be a comment
Blanks lines are ignored
Lines specifying callouts have the format abstract type library symbol where "abstract type" denotes the type of callout, e.g. globus_gram_jobmanager_authz, "library" denotes the library the callout can be found in and "symbol" denotes the function name of the callout. The library argument can be specified in two forms, libfoo or libfoo_<flavor>. When using the former version the current flavor will automatically be added to the library name.

Parameters:

	handle	The handle that is to be configured
	filename	The file to read configuration from

Returns:: GLOBUS_SUCCESS A Globus error object on failure: GLOBUS_CALLOUT_ERROR_OPENING_CONF_FILE GLOBUS_CALLOUT_ERROR_PARSING_CONF_FILE GLOBUS_CALLOUT_ERROR_WITH_HASHTABLE GLOBUS_CALLOUT_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY

globus_result_t globus_callout_register	(	globus_callout_handle_t	handle,
		char *	type,
		char *	library,
		char *	symbol
	)

Register callout configuration

This function registers a callout type in the given handle.

Parameters:

	handle	The handle that is to be configured
	type	The abstract type of the callout
	library	The location of the library containing the callout
	symbol	The symbol (ie function name) for the callout

Returns:: GLOBUS_SUCCESS A Globus error object on failure: GLOBUS_CALLOUT_ERROR_WITH_HASHTABLE GLOBUS_CALLOUT_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY