From befbaf97d09f1c36437bb285d7a1dc70a34ef6ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Braun <martin.braun@ettus.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:46:22 +0100
Subject: uhd: Added an update() method for dicts

Very similar to Python's dict.update().
---
 host/include/uhd/types/dict.hpp | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 host/include/uhd/types/dict.ipp | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'host/include')

diff --git a/host/include/uhd/types/dict.hpp b/host/include/uhd/types/dict.hpp
index 97fa8f09c..51e3e1814 100644
--- a/host/include/uhd/types/dict.hpp
+++ b/host/include/uhd/types/dict.hpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 //
-// Copyright 2010-2011 Ettus Research LLC
+// Copyright 2010-2011,2015 Ettus Research LLC
 //
 // This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 // it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -117,6 +117,23 @@ namespace uhd{
          */
         Val pop(const Key &key);
 
+        /*! Update this dictionary with values from another.
+         *
+         * Basically, this copies all the key/value pairs from \p new_dict
+         * into this dict. When the key is already present in the current
+         * dict, it either overwrites the current value (if \p fail_on_conflict
+         * is false) or it throws (if \p fail_on_conflict is true *and* the
+         * values differ).
+         *
+         * With the exception of \p fail_on_conflict, this behaves analogously
+         * to Python's dict.update() method.
+         *
+         * \param new_args The arguments to copy.
+         * \param fail_on_conflict If true, throws.
+         * \throws uhd::value_error
+         */
+        void update(const dict<Key, Val> &new_dict, bool fail_on_conflict=true);
+
     private:
         typedef std::pair<Key, Val> pair_t;
         std::list<pair_t> _map; //private container
diff --git a/host/include/uhd/types/dict.ipp b/host/include/uhd/types/dict.ipp
index 5e9cf97ad..5fd4b536e 100644
--- a/host/include/uhd/types/dict.ipp
+++ b/host/include/uhd/types/dict.ipp
@@ -135,6 +135,20 @@ namespace uhd{
         throw key_not_found<Key, Val>(key);
     }
 
+    template <typename Key, typename Val>
+    void dict<Key, Val>::update(const dict<Key, Val> &new_dict, bool fail_on_conflict)
+    {
+        BOOST_FOREACH(const Key &key, new_dict.keys()) {
+            if (fail_on_conflict and has_key(key) and get(key) != new_dict[key]) {
+                throw uhd::value_error(str(
+                    boost::format("Option merge conflict: %s:%s != %s:%s")
+                    % key % get(key) % key % new_dict[key]
+                ));
+            }
+            set(key, new_dict[key]);
+        }
+    }
+
 } //namespace uhd
 
 #endif /* INCLUDED_UHD_TYPES_DICT_IPP */
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