[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1107) Documentation of BIFs that take variable number of arguments

Daniel Thayer (JIRA) jira at bro-tracker.atlassian.net
Fri Dec 6 07:53:45 PST 2013


Daniel Thayer created BIT-1107:
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             Summary: Documentation of BIFs that take variable number of arguments
                 Key: BIT-1107
                 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1107
             Project: Bro Issue Tracker
          Issue Type: Problem
          Components: Bro
            Reporter: Daniel Thayer


The function prototype for BIFs that take a variable number of 
arguments appears in an altered form in the online documentation.

Here is a comparison of how these functions appear in the source code, 
versus what they look like in the online documentation:

md5_hash%(...%)  ===>  Type : function (va_args: any)
order%(v: any, ...%)  ===>  Type : function (va_args: any)
sort%(v: any, ...%)  ===>  Type : function (va_args: any)
cat_sep%(sep: string, def: string, ...%)  ===>  Type :  function (va_args: any)

The functions that have a named argument ("v" in sort, or "sep" in cat_sep)
have those arguments described in the online documentation, but we
cannot see them in the function prototype (only "va_args" is shown, 
which isn't actually the name of any function argument).




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