Rivendellaudio/docs/rivwebcapi/rd_createticket.xml

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    <refentrytitle>RD_CreateTicket</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class='source'>March 2017</refmiscinfo>
    <refmiscinfo class='manual'>Rivendell C Library Manual</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>
  <refnamediv>
    <refname>rd_createticket</refname>
    <refpurpose>Rivendell Create Ticket C Library Function</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>
  <info>
    <author>
      <personname>
        <firstname>Todd</firstname>
        <surname>Baker</surname>
        <email>bakert@rfa.org</email>
      </personname>
      <contrib>Rivendell C Library Author</contrib>
    </author>
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    <funcsynopsis>
    <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;rivwebcapi/rd_createticket.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
    <funcprototype>
    <funcdef>int <function>RD_CreateTicket</function></funcdef>
      <paramdef> struct rd_ticketinfo * <parameter>ticketinfo[]</parameter></paramdef>
      <paramdef>const char <parameter>hostname[]</parameter></paramdef>
      <paramdef>const char <parameter>username[]</parameter></paramdef>
      <paramdef>const char <parameter>passwd[]</parameter></paramdef>
      <paramdef>const char <parameter>user_agent[]</parameter></paramdef>
      <paramdef>unsigned * <parameter>numrecs</parameter></paramdef>
    </funcprototype> 
    </funcsynopsis>

  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1 id='description'><title>Description</title>
  <para>
    <command>RD_CreateTicket</command> is  the function to use
    to create a Authentification Ticket within the Rivendell Database.
  </para>
  <table xml:id="ex.audioinfo" frame="all">
    <title>RD_CreateTicket function call fields</title>
    <tgroup cols="4" align="left" colsep="1" rowsep="1">
      <colspec colname="FIELD NAME" />
      <colspec colname="FIELD TYPE" />
      <colspec colname="MEANING" />
      <colspec colname="REMARKS" />
      <thead>
        <row>
          <entry>
            FIELD NAME
          </entry>
          <entry>
            FIELD TYPE
          </entry>
          <entry>
            MEANING
          </entry>
          <entry>
            REMARKS
          </entry>
        </row>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <row>
          <entry>
            *rd_audioinfo
          </entry>
          <entry>
          Pointer to rd_ticketinfo structure
          </entry>
          <entry>
            Memory location to store specific ticketinfo data
          </entry>
          <entry>
            Mandatory
          </entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>
            hostname
          </entry>
          <entry>
          Character Array
          </entry>
          <entry>
            Name Of Rivendell DB Host
          </entry>
          <entry>
            Mandatory
          </entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>
            username
          </entry>
          <entry>
          Character Array
          </entry>
          <entry>
            Rivendell User Name
          </entry>
          <entry>
            Mandatory
          </entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>
            passwd
          </entry>
          <entry>
          Character Array
          </entry>
          <entry>
            Rivendell User Password
          </entry>
          <entry>
            Mandatory 
          </entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>
            user_agent
          </entry>
          <entry>
          Character Array
          </entry>
          <entry>
            User Agent Value put into HTTP request
          </entry>
          <entry>
            Optional (default is Rivendell-C-API/x.x.x)
          </entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>
            *numrecs
          </entry>
          <entry>
          pointer to integer
          </entry>
          <entry>
            memory location for number of records returned
          </entry>
          <entry>
            Mandatory
          </entry>
        </row>
      </tbody>
    </tgroup>
  </table>

  <para>
    When successful function will return the number of records sent (numrecs) and a rd_ticketinfo structure which 
    is stored in the provided memory locations. The rd_ticketinfo structure has the following fields:
  </para>
  <programlisting>
    struct rd_ticketinfo {
         char ticket[40];   
          struct tm tkt_expiration_datetime;
    }

  </programlisting>

  </refsect1>
  <refsect2 id='returns'><title>RETURN VALUE</title>
    <para>
      On success, zero is returned. Using the provided parameters an rd_ticketinfo
structure is returned and the number of records is returned.
    </para>
    <para>
      If a server error occurs a -1 is returned.
      If a client error occurs a specific error number is returned.
    </para>
  </refsect2>
  <refsect3 id='errors'><title>ERRORS</title>
    <para>
      403          User Authentification Error.
    </para>
    <para>
      nnn  Unknown Error Occurred.
    </para>
  </refsect3>
     
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