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@ -3,23 +3,13 @@ WriteMakefile(
'NAME' => 'Parse::Pidl',
'VERSION_FROM' => 'lib/Parse/Pidl.pm',
'EXE_FILES' => [ 'pidl' ],
'PMLIBDIRS' => [ 'lib' ],
'test' => { 'TESTS' => 'tests/*.pl' }
);
sub MY::postamble {
<<'EOT';
lib/Parse/Pidl/IDL.pm :: idl.yp
yapp -s -m 'Parse::Pidl::IDL' -o 'lib/Parse/Pidl/IDL.pm' idl.yp
lib/Parse/Pidl/IDL.pm: idl.yp
yapp -s -m 'Parse::Pidl::IDL' -o lib/Parse/Pidl/IDL.pm idl.yp
doc: pidl.1 pidl.1.html
XSLTPROC=xsltproc
%.1: %.1.xml
test -z "$(XSLTPROC)" || $(XSLTPROC) -o $@ http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl $<
%.html: %.xml
test -z "$(XSLTPROC)" || $(XSLTPROC) -o $@ http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/docbook.xsl $<
EOT
}

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@ -22,11 +22,6 @@ Run Makefile.PL to generate the Makefile.
Then run "make install" (as root) to install.
Documentation:
==============
Run 'make doc' to generate the manpage and a HTML version of the manpage.
This requires the xsltproc utility to be installed.
Internals overview:
===================

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# Copyright jelmer@samba.org 2005
# released under the GNU GPL
=pod
=head1 NAME
pidl - IDL Compiler written in Perl
=head1 SYNOPSIS
pidl --help
pidl [--outputdir[=OUTNAME]] [--parse-idl-tree] [--dump-idl-tree] [--dump-ndr-tree] [--ndr-header[=OUTPUT]] [--header[=OUTPUT]] [--ejs[=OUTPUT]] [--swig[=OUTPUT]] [--uint-enums] [--ndr-parser[=OUTPUT]] [--client] [--server] [--dcom-proxy] [--com-header] [--warn-compat] [--quiet] [--verbose] [--template] [--eth-parser[=OUTPUT]] [--diff] [--dump-idl] [<idlfile>.idl]...
=head1 DESCRIPTION
pidl is an IDL compiler written in Perl that aims to be somewhat
compatible with the midl compiler. IDL stands for
"Interface Definition Language".
pidl can generate stubs for DCE/RPC server code, DCE/RPC
client code and ethereal dissectors for DCE/RPC traffic.
IDL compilers like pidl take a description
of an interface as their input and use it to generate C
(though support for other languages may be added later) code that
can use these interfaces, pretty print data sent
using these interfaces, or even generate ethereal
dissectors that can parse data sent over the
wire by these interfaces.
pidl takes IDL files in the same format as is used by midl,
converts it to a .pidl file (which contains pidl's internal representation of the interface) and can then generate whatever output you need.
.pidl files should be used for debugging purposes only. Write your
interface definitions in .idl format.
The goal of pidl is to implement a IDL compiler that can be used
while developing the RPC subsystem in Samba (for
both marshalling/unmarshalling and debugging purposes).
=head1 OPTIONS
=over 4
=item I<--help>
Show list of available options.
=item I<--outputdir OUTNAME>
Write output files to the specified directory. Defaults to the current
directory.
=item I<--parse-idl-tree>
Read internal tree structure from input files rather
then assuming they contain IDL.
=item I<--dump-idl>
Generate a new IDL file. File will be named OUTNAME.idl.
=item I<--header>
Generate a C header file for the specified interface. Filename defaults to OUTNAME.h.
=item I<--ndr-header>
Generate a C header file with the prototypes for the NDR parsers. Filename defaults to ndr_OUTNAME.h.
=item I<--ndr-parser>
Generate a C file containing NDR parsers. Filename defaults to ndr_OUTNAME.c.
=item I<--server>
Generate boilerplate for the RPC server that implements
the interface. Filename defaults to ndr_OUTNAME_s.c.
=item I<--template>
Generate stubs for a RPC server that implements the interface. Output will
be written to stdout.
=item I<--eth-parser>
Generate an Ethereal dissector (in C) for the interface. Filename
defaults to packet-dcerpc-OUTNAME.c.
Pidl will read additional data from an ethereal conformance file if present.
Such a file should have the same location as the IDL file but with the
extension I<cnf> rather then I<idl>. See below for details on the format of
this file.
=item I<--diff>
Parse an IDL file, generate a new IDL file based on the internal data
structures and see if there are any differences with the original IDL file.
Useful for debugging pidl.
=item I<--dump-idl-tree>
Tell pidl to dump the internal tree representation of an IDL
file the to disk. Useful for debugging pidl.
=item I<--dump-ndr-tree>
Tell pidl to dump the internal NDR information tree it generated
from the IDL file to disk. Useful for debugging pidl.
=back
=head1 IDL SYNTAX
IDL files are always preprocessed using the C preprocessor.
Pretty much everything in an interface (the interface itself, functions,
parameters) can have attributes (or properties whatever name you give them).
Attributes always prepend the element they apply to and are surrounded
by square brackets ([]). Multiple attributes are separated by comma's;
arguments to attributes are specified between parentheses.
See the section COMPATIBILITY for the list of attributes that
pidl supports.
C-style comments can be used.
=head2 CONFORMANT ARRAYS
A conformant array is one with that ends in [*] or []. The strange
things about conformant arrays are that they can only appear as the last
element of a structure (unless there is a pointer to the conformant array,
of course) and the array size appears before the structure itself on the wire.
So, in this example:
typedef struct {
long abc;
long count;
long foo;
[size_is(count)] long s[*];
} Struct1;
it appears like this:
[size_is] [abc] [count] [foo] [s...]
the first [size_is] field is the allocation size of the array, and
occurs before the array elements and even before the structure
alignment.
Note that size_is() can refer to a constant, but that doesn't change
the wire representation. It does not make the array a fixed array.
midl.exe would write the above array as the following C header:
typedef struct {
long abc;
long count;
long foo;
long s[1];
} Struct1;
pidl takes a different approach, and writes it like this:
typedef struct {
long abc;
long count;
long foo;
long *s;
} Struct1;
=head2 VARYING ARRAYS
A varying array looks like this:
typedef struct {
long abc;
long count;
long foo;
[size_is(count)] long *s;
} Struct1;
This will look like this on the wire:
[abc] [count] [foo] [PTR_s] [count] [s...]
=head2 FIXED ARRAYS
A fixed array looks like this:
typedef struct {
long s[10];
} Struct1;
The NDR representation looks just like 10 separate long
declarations. The array size is not encoded on the wire.
pidl also supports "inline" arrays, which are not part of the IDL/NDR
standard. These are declared like this:
typedef struct {
uint32 foo;
uint32 count;
uint32 bar;
long s[count];
} Struct1;
This appears like this:
[foo] [count] [bar] [s...]
Fixed arrays are an extension added to support some of the strange
embedded structures in security descriptors and spoolss.
This section is by no means complete. See the OpenGroup and MSDN
documentation for additional information.
=head1 COMPATIBILITY WITH MIDL
=head2 Missing features in pidl
The following MIDL features are not (yet) implemented in pidl
or are implemented with an incompatible interface:
=over
=item *
Asynchronous communication
=item *
Typelibs (.tlb files)
=item *
Datagram support (ncadg_*)
=back
=head2 Supported attributes
in, out, ref, length_is, switch_is, size_is, uuid, case, default, string,
unique, ptr, pointer_default, v1_enum, object, helpstring, range, local,
call_as, endpoint, switch_type, progid, coclass, iid_is.
=head2 PIDL Specific properties
=over 4
=item public
The [public] property on a structure or union is a pidl extension that
forces the generated pull/push functions to be non-static. This allows
you to declare types that can be used between modules. If you don't
specify [public] then pull/push functions for other than top-level
functions are declared static.
=item noprint
The [noprint] property is a pidl extension that allows you to specify
that pidl should not generate a ndr_print_*() function for that
structure or union. This is used when you wish to define your own
print function that prints a structure in a nicer manner. A good
example is the use of [noprint] on dom_sid, which allows the
pretty-printing of SIDs.
=item value
The [value(expression)] property is a pidl extension that allows you
to specify the value of a field when it is put on the wire. This
allows fields that always have a well-known value to be automatically
filled in, thus making the API more programmer friendly. The
expression can be any C expression.
=item relative
The [relative] property can be supplied on a pointer. When it is used
it declares the pointer as a spoolss style "relative" pointer, which
means it appears on the wire as an offset within the current
encapsulating structure. This is not part of normal IDL/NDR, but it is
a very useful extension as it avoids the manual encoding of many
complex structures.
=item subcontext(length)
Specifies that a size of I<length>
bytes should be read, followed by a blob of that size,
which will be parsed as NDR.
=item flag
Specify boolean options, mostly used for
low-level NDR options. Several options
can be specified using the | character.
Note that flags are inherited by substructures!
=item nodiscriminant
The [nodiscriminant] property on a union means that the usual uint16
discriminent field at the start of the union on the wire is
omitted. This is not normally allowed in IDL/NDR, but is used for some
spoolss structures.
=item charset(name)
Specify that the array or string uses the specified
charset. If this attribute is specified, pidl will
take care of converting the character data from this format
to the host format. Commonly used values are UCS2, DOS and UTF8.
=back
=head2 Unsupported MIDL properties
aggregatable, appobject, async_uuid, bindable, control, cpp_quote,
defaultbind, defaultcollelem, defaultvalue, defaultvtable, dispinterface,
displaybind, dual, entry, first_is, helpcontext, helpfile, helpstringcontext,
helpstringdll, hidden, idl_module, idl_quote, id, immediatebind, importlib,
import, include, includelib, last_is, lcid, licensed, max_is, module,
ms_union, no_injected_text, nonbrowsable, noncreatable, nonextensible, odl,
oleautomation, optional, pragma, propget, propputref, propput, readonly,
requestedit, restricted, retval, source, transmit_as, uidefault,
usesgetlasterror, vararg, vi_progid, wire_marshal.
=head1 ETHEREAL CONFORMANCE FILES
Pidl needs additional data for ethereal output. This data is read from
so-called conformance files. This section describes the format of these
files.
Conformance files are simple text files with a single command on each line.
Empty lines and lines starting with a '#' character are ignored.
Arguments to commands are seperated by spaces.
The following commands are currently supported:
=over 4
=item TYPE name dissector ft_type base_type mask valsstring alignment
Register new data type with specified name, what dissector function to call
and what properties to give header fields for elements of this type.
=item NOEMIT type
Suppress emitting a dissect_type function for the specified type
=item PARAM_VALUE type param
Set parameter to specify to dissector function for given type.
=item HF_FIELD hf title filter ft_type base_type valsstring mask description
Generate a custom header field with specified properties.
=item HF_RENAME old_hf_name new_hf_name
Force the use of new_hf_name when the parser generator was going to
use old_hf_name.
This can be used in conjunction with HF_FIELD in order to make more then
one element use the same filter name.
=item STRIP_PREFIX prefix
Remove the specified prefix from all function names (if present).
=item PROTOCOL longname shortname filtername
Change the short-, long- and filter-name for the current interface in
Ethereal.
=item FIELD_DESCRIPTION field desc
Change description for the specified header field. `field' is the hf name of the field.
=item IMPORT dissector code...
Code to insert when generating the specified dissector. @HF@ and
@PARAM@ will be substituted.
=back
=head1 EXAMPLES
# Generating an ethereal parser
$ ./pidl --eth-parser -- atsvc.idl
# Generating a TDR parser
$ ./pidl --tdr-parser --tdr-header --header -- regf.idl
=head1 VERSION
This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite. L<http://www.samba.org/>.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/rpc/rpc/field_attributes.asp>
L<http://wiki.ethereal.com/DCE/RPC>
yapp(1)
=head1 AUTHOR
pidl was written by Andrew Tridgell, Stefan Metzmacher, Tim Potter and Jelmer
Vernooij.
This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij, partially based on the original
pidl README by Andrew Tridgell.
=cut
use strict;
use FindBin qw($RealBin);
use lib "$RealBin";

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
<refentry id="pidl.1">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>pidl</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>pidl</refname>
<refpurpose>IDL Compiler written in Perl</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>pidl</command>
<arg choice="opt">--help</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--outputdir OUTNAME</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--parse-idl-tree</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--dump-idl-tree</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--dump-ndr-tree</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--ndr-header[=OUTPUT]</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--header[=OUTPUT]</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--ejs[=OUTPUT]</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--swig[=OUTPUT]</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--uint-enums</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--ndr-parser[=OUTPUT]</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--client</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--server</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--dcom-proxy</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--com-header</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--warn-compat</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--quiet</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--verbose</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--template</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--eth-parser[=OUTPUT]</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--diff</arg>
<arg choice="opt">--dump-idl</arg>
<arg choice="req">idlfile</arg>
<arg choice="opt">idlfile2</arg>
<arg choice="opt">...</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>pidl is an IDL compiler written in Perl that aims to be somewhat
compatible with the midl compiler. IDL stands for
"Interface Definition Language".</para>
<para>pidl can generate stubs for DCE/RPC server code, DCE/RPC
client code and ethereal dissectors for DCE/RPC traffic.</para>
<para>IDL compilers like <emphasis>pidl</emphasis> take a description
of an interface as their input and use it to generate C
(though support for other languages may be added later) code that
can use these interfaces, pretty print data sent
using these interfaces, or even generate ethereal
dissectors that can parse data sent over the
wire by these interfaces. </para>
<para>pidl takes IDL files in the same format as is used by midl,
converts it to a .pidl file (which contains pidl's internal representation of the interface) and can then generate whatever output you need.
.pidl files should be used for debugging purposes only. Write your
interface definitions in .idl format.
</para>
<para>
The goal of pidl is to implement a IDL compiler that can be used
while developing the RPC subsystem in Samba (for
both marshalling/unmarshalling and debugging purposes).
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>OPTIONS</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>--help</term>
<listitem><para>
Show list of available options.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>--outputdir OUTNAME</term>
<listitem><para>Write output files to the specified directory.
Defaults to the current directory.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>--parse-idl-tree</term>
<listitem><para>
Read internal tree structure from input files rather
then assuming they contain IDL.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>--dump-idl</term>
<listitem><para>
Generate a new IDL file. File will be named OUTNAME.idl.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>--header</term>
<listitem><para>
Generate a C header file for the specified interface. Filename defaults to OUTNAME.h.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>--ndr-header</term>
<listitem><para>
Generate a C header file with the prototypes for the NDR parsers. Filename defaults to ndr_OUTNAME.h.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>--ndr-parser</term>
<listitem><para>
Generate a C file containing NDR parsers.
Filename defaults to ndr_OUTNAME.c.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>--server</term>
<listitem><para>
Generate boilerplate for the RPC server that implements
the interface. Filename defaults to ndr_OUTNAME_s.c</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>--template</term>
<listitem><para>
Generate stubs for a RPC server that implements
the interface. Output will be written to stdout.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>--eth-parser</term>
<listitem><para>
Generate an Ethereal dissector (in C) for the interface. Filename
defaults to packet-dcerpc-OUTNAME.c.
</para>
<para>Pidl will read additional data
from an ethereal conformance file if present. Such a file should
have the same location as the IDL file but with the extension
<quote>cnf</quote> rather then <quote>idl</quote>. See
below for details on the format of this file.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>--diff</term>
<listitem><para>
Parse an IDL file, generate a new IDL file based
on the internal data structures and see if there are
any differences with the
original IDL file. Useful for debugging pidl.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>--dump-idl-tree</term>
<listitem><para>
Tell pidl to dump the internal tree representation of an IDL
file the to disk. Useful
for debugging pidl.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>--dump-ndr-tree</term>
<listitem><para>
Tell pidl to dump the internal NDR information tree it generated
from the IDL file to disk. Useful for debugging pidl.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>IDL SYNTAX</title>
<para>IDL files are always preprocessed using the C preprocessor.</para>
<para>Pretty much everything in an interface (the interface itself,
functions, parameters) can have attributes (or properties
whatever name you give them). Attributes
always prepend the element they apply to and are surrounded
by square brackets ([]). Multiple attributes
are separated by comma's; arguments to attributes are
specified between parentheses. </para>
<para>See the section COMPATIBILITY for the list of attributes that
pidl supports.</para>
<para>C-style comments can be used.</para>
<refsect2>
<title>CONFORMANT ARRAYS</title>
<para>
A conformant array is one with that ends in [*] or []. The strange
things about conformant arrays are:
</para>
<simplelist>
<member>they can only appear as the last element of a structure</member>
<member>the array size appears before the structure itself on the wire. </member>
</simplelist>
<para>
So, in this example:
</para>
<programlisting>
typedef struct {
long abc;
long count;
long foo;
[size_is(count)] long s[*];
} Struct1;
</programlisting>
<para>
it appears like this:
</para>
<programlisting>
[size_is] [abc] [count] [foo] [s...]
</programlisting>
<para>
the first [size_is] field is the allocation size of the array, and
occurs before the array elements and even before the structure
alignment.
</para>
<para>
Note that size_is() can refer to a constant, but that doesn't change
the wire representation. It does not make the array a fixed array.
</para>
<para>
midl.exe would write the above array as the following C header:
</para>
<programlisting>
typedef struct {
long abc;
long count;
long foo;
long s[1];
} Struct1;
</programlisting>
<para>
pidl takes a different approach, and writes it like this:
</para>
<programlisting>
typedef struct {
long abc;
long count;
long foo;
long *s;
} Struct1;
</programlisting>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>VARYING ARRAYS</title>
<para>
A varying array looks like this:
</para>
<programlisting>
typedef struct {
long abc;
long count;
long foo;
[size_is(count)] long *s;
} Struct1;
</programlisting>
<para>
This will look like this on the wire:
</para>
<programlisting>
[abc] [count] [foo] [PTR_s] [count] [s...]
</programlisting>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>FIXED ARRAYS</title>
<para>
A fixed array looks like this:
</para>
<programlisting>
typedef struct {
long s[10];
} Struct1;
</programlisting>
<para>
The NDR representation looks just like 10 separate long
declarations. The array size is not encoded on the wire.
</para>
<para>
pidl also supports "inline" arrays, which are not part of the IDL/NDR
standard. These are declared like this:
</para>
<programlisting>
typedef struct {
uint32 foo;
uint32 count;
uint32 bar;
long s[count];
} Struct1;
</programlisting>
<para>
This appears like this:
</para>
<programlisting>
[foo] [count] [bar] [s...]
</programlisting>
<para>
Fixed arrays are an extension added to support some of the strange
embedded structures in security descriptors and spoolss.
</para>
</refsect2>
<para>This section is by no means complete. See the OpenGroup and MSDN
documentation for additional information.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>COMPATIBILITY WITH MIDL</title>
<refsect2>
<title>Missing features in pidl</title>
<para>
The following MIDL features are not (yet) implemented in pidl
or are implemented with an incompatible interface:
</para>
<simplelist>
<member>Asynchronous communication</member>
<member>Typelibs (.tlb files)</member>
<member>Datagram support (ncadg_*)</member>
</simplelist>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>Supported properties (attributes is the MIDL term)</title>
<para>
in, out, ref, length_is, switch_is, size_is, uuid, case, default, string, unique, ptr, pointer_default, v1_enum, object, helpstring, range, local, call_as, endpoint, switch_type, progid, coclass, iid_is.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>PIDL Specific properties</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>public</term>
<listitem><para>
The [public] property on a structure or union is a pidl extension that
forces the generated pull/push functions to be non-static. This allows
you to declare types that can be used between modules. If you don't
specify [public] then pull/push functions for other than top-level
functions are declared static.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>noprint</term>
<listitem><para>
The [noprint] property is a pidl extension that allows you to specify
that pidl should not generate a ndr_print_*() function for that
structure or union. This is used when you wish to define your own
print function that prints a structure in a nicer manner. A good
example is the use of [noprint] on dom_sid, which allows the
pretty-printing of SIDs.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>value</term>
<listitem><para>
The [value(expression)] property is a pidl extension that allows you
to specify the value of a field when it is put on the wire. This
allows fields that always have a well-known value to be automatically
filled in, thus making the API more programmer friendly. The
expression can be any C expression.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>relative</term>
<listitem><para>
The [relative] property can be supplied on a pointer. When it is used
it declares the pointer as a spoolss style "relative" pointer, which
means it appears on the wire as an offset within the current
encapsulating structure. This is not part of normal IDL/NDR, but it is
a very useful extension as it avoids the manual encoding of many
complex structures.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>subcontext(length)</term>
<listitem><para>
Specifies that a size of <replaceable>length</replaceable>
bytes should be read, followed by a blob of that size,
which will be parsed as NDR.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>flag</term>
<listitem><para>
Specify boolean options, mostly used for
low-level NDR options. Several options
can be specified using the | character.
Note that flags are inherited by substructures!
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>nodiscriminant</term>
<listitem><para>
The [nodiscriminant] property on a union means that the usual uint16
discriminent field at the start of the union on the wire is
omitted. This is not normally allowed in IDL/NDR, but is used for some
spoolss structures.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>charset(name)</term>
<listitem><para>
Specify that the array or string uses the specified
charset. If this attribute is specified, pidl will
take care of converting the character data from this format
to the host format. Commonly used values are UCS2, DOS and UTF8.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>Unsupported MIDL properties</title>
<para>aggregatable, appobject, async_uuid, bindable, control, cpp_quote, defaultbind, defaultcollelem, defaultvalue, defaultvtable, dispinterface, displaybind, dual, entry, first_is, helpcontext, helpfile, helpstringcontext, helpstringdll, hidden, idl_module, idl_quote, id, immediatebind, importlib, import, include, includelib, last_is, lcid, licensed, max_is, module, ms_union, no_injected_text, nonbrowsable, noncreatable, nonextensible, odl, oleautomation, optional, pragma, propget, propputref, propput, readonly, requestedit, restricted, retval, source, transmit_as, uidefault, usesgetlasterror, vararg, vi_progid, wire_marshal. </para>
</refsect2>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>ETHEREAL CONFORMANCE FILES</title>
<para>
Pidl needs additional data for ethereal output. This data is read from
so-called conformance files. This section describes the format of these
files.</para>
<para>
Conformance files are simple text files with a single command on each line.
Empty lines and lines starting with a '#' character are ignored.
Arguments to commands are seperated by spaces.
</para>
<para>
The following commands are currently supported:
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>TYPE name dissector ft_type base_type mask valsstring alignment</term>
<listitem><para>Register new data type with specified name, what dissector function to call and what properties to give header fields for elements of this type.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>NOEMIT type</term>
<listitem><para>
Suppress emitting a dissect_type function for the specified type
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>PARAM_VALUE type param</term>
<listitem><para>
Set parameter to specify to dissector function for given type.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>HF_FIELD hf title filter ft_type base_type valsstring mask description</term>
<listitem><para>
Generate a custom header field with specified properties.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>HF_RENAME old_hf_name new_hf_name</term>
<listitem><para>
Force the use of new_hf_name when the parser generator was going to
use old_hf_name.
</para>
<para>
This can be used in conjunction with HF_FIELD in order to make more then
one element use the same filter name.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>STRIP_PREFIX prefix</term>
<listitem><para>
Remove the specified prefix from all function names (if present).
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>PROTOCOL longname shortname filtername</term>
<listitem><para>
Change the short-, long- and filter-name for the current interface in
Ethereal.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>FIELD_DESCRIPTION field desc</term>
<listitem><para>Change description for the specified header field. `field' is the hf name of the field.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>IMPORT dissector code...</term>
<listitem><para>
Code to insert when generating the specified dissector. @HF@ and
@PARAM@ will be substituted.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>EXAMPLES</title>
<programlisting>
# Generating an ethereal parser
$ ./pidl --eth-parser -- atsvc.idl
# Generating a TDR parser
$ ./pidl --tdr-parser --tdr-header --header -- regf.idl
</programlisting>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>VERSION</title>
<para>This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para><ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/rpc/rpc/field_attributes.asp">Field Attributes [Remote Procedure Call]</ulink>, <ulink url="http://wiki.ethereal.com/DCE/RPC">Ethereal Wiki on DCE/RPC</ulink>.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>AUTHOR</title>
<para>pidl was written by Andrew Tridgell, Stefan Metzmacher, Tim
Potter and Jelmer Vernooij. </para>
<para>This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij, partially based on the original pidl README by Andrew Tridgell. </para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>