getdns_pretty_print_dict(3)

💖 getdns_pretty_print_dict — a getdns dict, but make it readable 💖

okay bestie, this is a page from the getdns manual, and it's about the lil glow-up function that turns your dict into a string you can actually look at. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

getdns_pretty_print_dict — return a string representation of a getdns dict 🎀

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📚 LIBRARY 📚

DNS Resolver library — that's libgetdns, and you link it with -lgetdns. periodt.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <getdns.h>

char *
getdns_pretty_print_dict (const getdns_dict *this_dict)

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this is a helper function, right? and what it does is return a string of nicely formatted data that includes all of the elements in the dict. every single one. the whole thing. it's giving "show me everything, but cute". 🦋

• this_dict — the dictionary you want rendered as a string. yes, the one you're passing in. that one. 👑

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🫶 RETURN VALUES 🫶

it hands you back a string, and — listen, this matters — the calling function must free it. and like, the way it was allocated is a whole thing: it uses the system allocator, not the user defined allocator. so free it accordingly, iykyk. 😭

and if something goes sideways? it returns NULL on error. no string, no vibes, just NULL. 💀

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🙈 EXAMPLES 🙈

TBD

...yeah. that's literally it. the examples are to be determined. not me getting left on read by the documentation bestie. 💔

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• getdns_dict(3)
• libgetdns(3)

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okay that's the whole page!! 💜 this one came from getdns 1.7.3, dated December 2015 — iconic behavior from a manual page that's been serving since 2015, we stan. go forth and pretty-print, bestie 💖✨🌸