From 7bf79a1a47143d0b2d1eb87fe1b938f870edc5b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:54:19 +0000
Subject: * fix behaviour of empty TXT lists

git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/avahi/trunk@445 941a03a8-eaeb-0310-b9a0-b1bbd8fe43fe
---
 avahi-common/strlst-test.c |  6 +++++
 avahi-common/strlst.c      | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/avahi-common/strlst-test.c b/avahi-common/strlst-test.c
index a4c758f..b725fa7 100644
--- a/avahi-common/strlst-test.c
+++ b/avahi-common/strlst-test.c
@@ -111,6 +111,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
     
     avahi_string_list_free(a);
     avahi_string_list_free(b);
+
+    size = avahi_string_list_serialize(NULL, data, sizeof(data));
+    assert(size == 1);
+
+    a = avahi_string_list_parse(data, size);
+    assert(!a);
     
     return 0;
 }
diff --git a/avahi-common/strlst.c b/avahi-common/strlst.c
index d1e17be..db5ac59 100644
--- a/avahi-common/strlst.c
+++ b/avahi-common/strlst.c
@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ AvahiStringList *avahi_string_list_parse(const void* data, size_t size) {
             break;
 
         k = *(c++);
-        r = avahi_string_list_add_arbitrary(r, c, k);
+
+        if (k > 0) /* Ignore empty strings */
+            r = avahi_string_list_add_arbitrary(r, c, k);
         c += k;
 
         size -= 1 + k;
@@ -153,34 +155,48 @@ size_t avahi_string_list_serialize(AvahiStringList *l, void *data, size_t size)
     size_t used = 0;
 
     if (data) {
-        uint8_t *c;
-        AvahiStringList *n;
     
-        assert(data);
+        if (l) {
+            uint8_t *c;
+            AvahiStringList *n;
         
-        l = avahi_string_list_reverse(l);
-        c = data;
-        
-        for (n = l; n; n = n->next) {
-            size_t k;
-            if (size < 1)
-                break;
-            
-            k = n->size;
-            if (k > 255)
-                k = 255;
+            l = avahi_string_list_reverse(l);
+            c = data;
             
-            if (k > size-1)
-                k = size-1;
+            for (n = l; n; n = n->next) {
+                size_t k;
+                if (size < 1)
+                    break;
+                
+                k = n->size;
+                if (k > 255)
+                    k = 255;
+                
+                if (k > size-1)
+                    k = size-1;
+                
+                *(c++) = k;
+                memcpy(c, n->text, k);
+                c += k;
+                
+                used += 1+ k;
+            }
+        
+            l = avahi_string_list_reverse(l);
             
-            *(c++) = k;
-            memcpy(c, n->text, k);
-            c += k;
+        } else {
+
+            /* Empty lists are treated specially. To comply with
+             * section 6.1 of the DNS-SD spec, we return a single
+             * empty string (i.e. a NUL byte)*/
+
+            if (size > 0) {
+                *(uint8_t*) data = 0;
+                used = 1;
+            }
             
-            used += 1+ k;
         }
-        
-        l = avahi_string_list_reverse(l);
+            
     } else {
         AvahiStringList *n;
 
-- 
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