Commit 9488a2ad authored by Federico G. Schwindt's avatar Federico G. Schwindt

Update to mention STRANDS and reword

parent 54e7d45b
......@@ -50,35 +50,36 @@ data structures that do all the hard work.
The std VMODs vmod.vcc file looks somewhat like this::
$Module std 3
$ABI strict
$Module std 3 "Varnish Standard Module"
$Event event_function
$Function STRING toupper(STRING_LIST)
$Function STRING tolower(STRING_LIST)
$Function STRING toupper(STRANDS s)
$Function STRING tolower(STRANDS s)
$Function VOID set_ip_tos(INT)
The first line gives the name of the module and the manual section where
the documentation will reside.
The ``$ABI`` line is optional. Possible values are ``strict``
(default) and ``vrt``. It allows to specify that a vmod is integrating
with the blessed ``vrt`` interface provided by ``varnishd`` or go
deeper in the stack.
The ``$ABI`` line is optional (possible values ``strict`` (default)
and ``vrt``) and allows to specify that a vmod is integrating with the
blessed ``vrt`` interface provided by ``varnishd`` or go deeper in the
stack. As a general rule of thumb you are considered "on your own" if
your VMOD uses more than the VRT (Varnish RunTime), in which case it
needs to be built for the exact Varnish version.
As a rule of thumb you, if the VMOD uses more than the VRT (Varnish
RunTime), in which case it needs to be built for the exact Varnish
version, use ``strict``. If it complies to the VRT and only needs
to be rebuilt when breaking changes are introduced to the VRT API,
use ``vrt``.
``$ABI vrt`` means that a module complies to the VRT and only needs to
be rebuilt when breaking changes are introduced to the VRT API.
The ``$Module`` line gives the name of the module, the manual section
where the documentation will reside, and the description.
The third line specifies an optional "Event" function, which will be
called whenever a VCL program which imports this VMOD is loaded or
transitions to any of the warm, active, cold or discarded states.
More on this below.
The ``$Event`` line specifies an optional "Event" function, which
will be called whenever a VCL program which imports this VMOD is
loaded or transitions to any of the warm, active, cold or discarded
states. More on this below.
The next three lines define three functions in the VMOD, along with the
types of the arguments, and that is probably where the hardest bit of
writing a VMOD is to be found, so we will talk about that at length in
a moment.
The ``$Function`` lines define three functions in the VMOD, along
with the types of the arguments, and that is probably where the
hardest bit of writing a VMOD is to be found, so we will talk about
that at length in a moment.
Notice that the third function returns VOID, that makes it a "procedure"
in VCL lingo, meaning that it cannot be used in expressions, right side
......@@ -102,10 +103,8 @@ the functions you want to export to VCL.
For the std VMOD, the compiled vcc_if.h file looks like this::
struct vmod_priv;
VCL_STRING vmod_toupper(VRT_CTX, const char *, ...);
VCL_STRING vmod_tolower(VRT_CTX, const char *, ...);
VCL_STRING vmod_toupper(VRT_CTX, VCL_STRANDS);
VCL_STRING vmod_tolower(VRT_CTX, VCL_STRANDS);
VCL_VOID vmod_set_ip_tos(VRT_CTX, VCL_INT);
vmod_event_f event_function;
......
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