Introduce experimental new hooks for command-line tools

This allows third-party package managers like snap or flatpak
to hook in and suggest alternatives if packages could not be
found, for example.

This is still highly experimental and the protocol might change
in future versions.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/apt-private/private-json-hooks.h b/apt-private/private-json-hooks.h
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+/*
+ * private-json-hooks.h - 2nd generation, JSON-RPC, hooks for APT
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2018 Canonical Ltd
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+ */
+
+#include <set>
+#include <string>
+
+#include <apt-private/private-cachefile.h>
+
+bool RunJsonHook(std::string const &option, std::string const &method, const char **FileList, CacheFile &Cache, std::set<std::string> const &UnknownPackages = {});