Utilities

The utilities library (libkea-util) provides generic and Kea utilities:

boost time: boost Posix time and duration to text conversions.
buffer (header only): input and output buffers.
csv file: comma-separated values (CSV) files.
double: test utility for checking double equivalence (vs. strict equality).
encode: base16, base32, base64 and hexadecimal conversions.
filename: filename manipulation (avoid dependency on boost).
hash: Fowler-Noll-Vo 64 bit hash function.
io: test utils for file descriptors and sockets.
io utilities (header only): reads and writes integers from / to buffers.
labeled values: labeled constants and label constant sets.
multi threading manager (in the util library to be available in the whole Kea code).
optional: optional values.
pid file: process id files.
pointer util: test utility to compare smart pointers.
process spawn.
range utilities.
read-write mutex (header only).
signal set: signal handling (please use isc::asiolink::IOSignalSet instead).
staged values.
state model: event-driven deterministic finite state machine.
stop watch: to measure code execution time.
string util: various string common tools.
thread pool.
time utilities: DNSSEC time conversions from and to text.
unittests (directory): tools for google test unit tests.
unlock guard: RAII helper to unlock a mutex in a limited scope.
versioned csv file: csv files with multiple versions of file schema.
watched socket (required as select() or poll() do not support condition variables).
watched threads: threads using ready, error and terminate watched socket.

Multi-Threading Consideration for Utilities

By default utilities are not thread safe, for instance CSV files and qid random generators are not thread safe. Exceptions are: