Add alternative iterator implementation
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+/**
+*******************************************************************************
+* @file cjson_object_iterator.c
+*
+* Copyright (c) 2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
+*
+* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+* it under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for details.
+*
+* @brief cjson forces clients to use its private data
+* structures for JSON Object iteration. This API
+* implementation corrects that by abstracting the
+* private cjson details.
+*
+*******************************************************************************
+*/
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+
+#include "json.h"
+#include "json_object_private.h"
+
+#include "json_object_iterator.h"
+
+/**
+ * How It Works
+ *
+ * For each JSON Object, cjson maintains a linked list of zero
+ * or more lh_entry (link-hash entry) structures inside the
+ * Object's link-hash table (lh_table).
+ *
+ * Each lh_entry structure on the JSON Object's linked list
+ * represents a single name/value pair. The "next" field of the
+ * last lh_entry in the list is set to NULL, which terminates
+ * the list.
+ *
+ * We represent a valid iterator that refers to an actual
+ * name/value pair via a pointer to the pair's lh_entry
+ * structure set as the iterator's opaque_ field.
+ *
+ * We follow cjson's current pair list representation by
+ * representing a valid "end" iterator (one that refers past the
+ * last pair) with a NULL value in the iterator's opaque_ field.
+ *
+ * A JSON Object without any pairs in it will have the "head"
+ * field of its lh_table structure set to NULL. For such an
+ * object, json_object_iter_begin will return an iterator with
+ * the opaque_ field set to NULL, which is equivalent to the
+ * "end" iterator.
+ *
+ * When iterating, we simply update the iterator's opaque_ field
+ * to point to the next lh_entry structure in the linked list.
+ * opaque_ will become NULL once we iterate past the last pair
+ * in the list, which makes the iterator equivalent to the "end"
+ * iterator.
+ */
+
+/// Our current representation of the "end" iterator;
+///
+/// @note May not always be NULL
+static const void* kObjectEndIterValue = NULL;
+
+/**
+ * ****************************************************************************
+ */
+struct json_object_iterator
+json_object_iter_begin(struct json_object* obj)
+{
+ struct json_object_iterator iter;
+ struct lh_table* pTable;
+
+ /// @note json_object_get_object will return NULL if passed NULL
+ /// or a non-json_type_object instance
+ pTable = json_object_get_object(obj);
+ JASSERT(NULL != pTable);
+
+ /// @note For a pair-less Object, head is NULL, which matches our
+ /// definition of the "end" iterator
+ iter.opaque_ = pTable->head;
+ return iter;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ****************************************************************************
+ */
+struct json_object_iterator
+json_object_iter_end(const struct json_object* obj)
+{
+ struct json_object_iterator iter;
+
+ JASSERT(NULL != obj);
+ JASSERT(json_object_is_type(obj, json_type_object));
+
+ iter.opaque_ = kObjectEndIterValue;
+
+ return iter;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ****************************************************************************
+ */
+void
+json_object_iter_next(struct json_object_iterator* iter)
+{
+ JASSERT(NULL != iter);
+ JASSERT(kObjectEndIterValue != iter->opaque_);
+
+ iter->opaque_ = ((struct lh_entry *)iter->opaque_)->next;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * ****************************************************************************
+ */
+const char*
+json_object_iter_peek_name(const struct json_object_iterator* iter)
+{
+ JASSERT(NULL != iter);
+ JASSERT(kObjectEndIterValue != iter->opaque_);
+
+ return (const char*)(((struct lh_entry *)iter->opaque_)->k);
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * ****************************************************************************
+ */
+struct json_object*
+json_object_iter_peek_value(const struct json_object_iterator* iter)
+{
+ JASSERT(NULL != iter);
+ JASSERT(kObjectEndIterValue != iter->opaque_);
+
+ return (struct json_object*)(((struct lh_entry *)iter->opaque_)->v);
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * ****************************************************************************
+ */
+bool
+json_object_iter_equal(const struct json_object_iterator* iter1,
+ const struct json_object_iterator* iter2)
+{
+ JASSERT(NULL != iter1);
+ JASSERT(NULL != iter2);
+
+ return (iter1->opaque_ == iter2->opaque_);
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * ****************************************************************************
+ */
+struct json_object_iterator
+json_object_iter_init_default(void)
+{
+ struct json_object_iterator iter;
+
+ /**
+ * @note Make this a negative, invalid value, such that
+ * accidental access to it would likely be trapped by the
+ * hardware as an invalid address.
+ */
+ iter.opaque_ = NULL;
+
+ return iter;
+}