Add OSSL_STORE_LOADER_description()
[openssl.git] / doc / man3 / OSSL_STORE_LOADER.pod
index 1cfce445b837571c524802c969ae8d8f4e85edfc..7413104079bdceb506fc243026fe716311cb4670 100644 (file)
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ OSSL_STORE_LOADER_provider,
 OSSL_STORE_LOADER_properties,
 OSSL_STORE_LOADER_is_a,
 OSSL_STORE_LOADER_number,
+OSSL_STORE_LOADER_description,
 OSSL_STORE_LOADER_do_all_provided,
 OSSL_STORE_LOADER_names_do_all,
 OSSL_STORE_LOADER_CTX, OSSL_STORE_LOADER_new,
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ unregister STORE loaders for different URI schemes
                                                  loader);
  const char *OSSL_STORE_LOADER_properties(const OSSL_STORE_LOADER *loader);
  int OSSL_STORE_LOADER_number(const OSSL_STORE_LOADER *loader);
+ const char *OSSL_STORE_LOADER_description(const OSSL_STORE_LOADER *loader);
  int OSSL_STORE_LOADER_is_a(const OSSL_STORE_LOADER *loader,
                             const char *scheme);
  void OSSL_STORE_LOADER_do_all_provided(OSSL_LIB_CTX *libctx,
@@ -139,6 +141,10 @@ of an algorithm that's identifiable with I<scheme>.
 OSSL_STORE_LOADER_number() returns the internal dynamic number assigned
 to the given I<loader>.
 
+OSSL_STORE_LOADER_description() returns a description of the I<loader>, meant
+for display and human consumption.  The description is at the discretion of the
+I<loader> implementation.
+
 OSSL_STORE_LOADER_do_all_provided() traverses all store implementations
 by all activated providers in the library context I<libctx>, and for each
 of the implementations, calls I<fn> with the implementation method and
@@ -328,6 +334,9 @@ otherwise 0.
 
 OSSL_STORE_LOADER_number() returns an integer.
 
+OSSL_STORE_LOADER_description() returns a pointer to a decription, or NULL if
+there isn't one.
+
 The functions with the types B<OSSL_STORE_open_fn>,
 B<OSSL_STORE_open_ex_fn>, B<OSSL_STORE_ctrl_fn>,
 B<OSSL_STORE_expect_fn>, B<OSSL_STORE_load_fn>, B<OSSL_STORE_eof_fn>