Determine if a given namespace is valid.
Validity of a namespace is based on rules for a topic defined here:
http://design.ros2.org/articles/topic_and_service_names.html
Note that this function expects that there are no URL suffixes as described in the above document which can be used for topics and services.
If either the C string or validation_result pointer are null, then RMW_RET_INVALID_ARGUMENT
will be returned. The namespace_ should be a valid, null-terminated C string. The validation_result int pointer should point to valid memory so a result can be stored in it as an output variable. The invalid_index size_t pointer should either point NULL or to valid memory so in the event of a validation error, the location in the input string can be stored therein. If NULL is passed in for invalid_index, it will be not be set.
The invalid_index will not be assigned a value if the namespace is valid.
The int which validation_result points to will have a one of a few possible results values (defined with macros) stored into it:
- RMW_NAMESPACE_VALID
- RMW_NAMESPACE_INVALID_IS_EMPTY_STRING
- RMW_NAMESPACE_INVALID_NOT_ABSOLUTE
- RMW_NAMESPACE_INVALID_ENDS_WITH_FORWARD_SLASH
- RMW_NAMESPACE_INVALID_CONTAINS_UNALLOWED_CHARACTERS
- RMW_NAMESPACE_INVALID_CONTAINS_REPEATED_FORWARD_SLASH
- RMW_NAMESPACE_INVALID_NAME_TOKEN_STARTS_WITH_NUMBER
- RMW_NAMESPACE_INVALID_TOO_LONG
The result value can be converted to a description with the rmw_namespace_validation_result_string() function.
The RMW_NAMESPACE_INVALID_ENDS_WITH_FORWARD_SLASH
validation result does not apply to "/"
, which is a valid namespace.
The RMW_NAMESPACE_INVALID_TOO_LONG
is guaranteed to be checked last, such that if you get that result, then you can assume all other checks succeeded. This is done so that the length limit can be treated as a warning rather than an error if desired.
- Parameters
-
[in] | namespace_ | namespace to be validated |
[out] | validation_result | int in which the result of the check is stored |
[out] | invalid_index | index of the input string where an error occurred |
- Returns
RMW_RET_OK
on successfully running the check, or
-
RMW_RET_INVALID_ARGUMENT
on invalid parameters, or
-
RMW_RET_ERROR
when an unspecified error occurs.