From: Eric Bollengier <eric@eb.homelinux.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:24:45 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Add Bvfs notes
X-Git-Tag: Release-5.0.0~11
X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6c46a6cd670c31dc6356a4a89d1d31ac70efcb85;p=bacula%2Fdocs

Add Bvfs notes
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diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/developers/gui-interface.tex b/docs/manuals/en/developers/gui-interface.tex
index 2733cda9..218f5af5 100644
--- a/docs/manuals/en/developers/gui-interface.tex
+++ b/docs/manuals/en/developers/gui-interface.tex
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ exception of dbcheck and bscan). This is because at some point I would like to
 add user level security and access. If we have code spread everywhere such as
 in a GUI this will be more difficult. The other advantage is that any code you
 add to the Director is automatically available to both the tty console program
-and the GNOME program. The major disadvantage is it increases the size of the
+and the WX program. The major disadvantage is it increases the size of the
 code -- however, compared to Networker the Bacula Director is really tiny. 
 
 \subsection{GUI Interface is Difficult}
@@ -98,5 +98,35 @@ Then the read\_and\_process\_input routine looks like the following:
 
 For a GUI program things will be a bit more complicated. Basically in the very
 inner loop, you will need to check and see if any output is available on the
-UA\_sock. For an example, please take a look at the GNOME GUI interface code
-in: \lt{}bacula-source\&gt/src/gnome-console/console.c 
+UA\_sock. For an example, please take a look at the WX GUI interface code
+in: \lt{bacula-source/src/wx-console}
+
+\section{Bvfs API}
+\label{sec:bvfs}
+
+To help developers of restore GUI interfaces, we have added new \textsl{dot
+  commands} that permit browsing the catalog in a very simple way.
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item \texttt{.bvfs\_update [jobid=x,y,z]} This command is required to update
+  the Bvfs cache in the catalog. You need to run it before any access to the
+  Bvfs layer.
+
+\item \texttt{.bvfs\_lsdirs jobid=x,y,z path=/path | pathid=101} This command
+  will list all directories in the specified \texttt{path} or
+  \texttt{pathid}. Using \texttt{pathid} avoids problems with character
+  encoding of path/filenames.
+
+\item \texttt{.bvfs\_lsfiles jobid=x,y,z path=/path | pathid=101} This command
+  will list all files in the specified \texttt{path} or \texttt{pathid}. Using
+  \texttt{pathid} avoids problems with character encoding.
+\end{itemize}
+
+You can use \texttt{limit=xxx} and \texttt{offset=yyy} to limit the amount of
+data that will be displayed.
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+* .bvfs_update jobid=1,2
+* .bvfs_update
+* .bvfs_lsdir path=/ jobid=1,2
+\end{verbatim}