DTMMDBSECTIONGETDATA(3)

💅 DtMmdbSectionGetData — library call realness 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

DtMmdbSectionGetData — obtains the data for a section. That’s the whole vibe, bestie. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so the exact incantation is literally this, no cap:

#include &<DtMmdb.h>
const char* DtMmdbSectionGetData(
DtMmdbInfoRequest* request,
unsigned int* length);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The DtMmdbSectionGetData function returns the data for the specified section. Big main-character energy, honestly. But listen: do not use the free function on the returned pointer. That’s a hard no. 🚨

Also, table lookup is involved if the section identifier is specified by the locator_ptr field. That’s the tea, and it’s important. 🍓

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• request — Specifies the bookcase in the bookcase descriptor field and either the section’s Database Engine identifier (in the primary_oid field) or the section’s logical identifier (in the locator_ptr field). If both of these fields have a value, DtMmdbSectionGetData ignores the locator_ptr value. The way it just ignores it — periodt. 💅
• length — Specifies the variable to receive the length of the returned data, if the returned pointer to the data is not NULL. Very “here’s your length, but only if the pointer is valid” of it. ✨

🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

If DtMmdbSectionGetData completes successfully, it returns a pointer to a NULL-terminated data string. If it fails, it returns a NULL pointer.

So: success = pointer to a NULL-terminated data string, fail = NULL pointer. Iykyk. 💀

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

The following shows how a DtMmdbSectionGetData call might be coded. Literally:

DtMmdbInfoRequest request;
/* fill the request */
DtMmdbSectionGetData(&&request, 0);

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

TO BE SUPPLIED — yep, that’s all it says. No extra links invented, bestie. 🧚

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