Start documenting stuff for 3rd party developers. Comments only, won't affect feature...

git-svn-id: http://svn.inspircd.org/repository/trunk/inspircd@10565 e03df62e-2008-0410-955e-edbf42e46eb7

diff --git a/include/bancache.h b/include/bancache.h
index 944d69816e5450d19d1de264a8ac5a8e81d0bf9a..b6e037f79dde8e955c3f5e99cceba6b2c75277ae 100644 (file)
--- a/include/bancache.h
+++ b/include/bancache.h
@@ -14,14 +14,29 @@
 #ifndef __BANCACHE_H
 #define __BANCACHE_H
 
+/** Stores a cached ban entry.
+ * Each ban has one of these hashed in a hash_map to make for faster removal
+ * of already-banned users in the case that they try to reconnect. As no wildcard
+ * matching is done on these IPs, the speed of the system is improved. These cache
+ * entries expire every few hours, which is a reasonable expiry for any reasonable
+ * sized network.
+ */
 class CoreExport BanCacheHit : public classbase
 {
  private:
        InspIRCd *ServerInstance;
  public:
+       /** Type of cached ban
+        */
        std::string Type;
+       /** Reason, shown as quit message
+        */
        std::string Reason;
+       /** IP to match against, no wildcards here (of course)
+        */
        std::string IP;
+       /** Time that the ban expires at
+        */
        time_t Expiry;
 
        BanCacheHit(InspIRCd *Instance, const std::string &ip, const std::string &type, const std::string &reason)
@@ -44,18 +59,22 @@ class CoreExport BanCacheHit : public classbase
        }
 };
 
-// must be defined after class BanCacheHit.
+/* A container of ban cache items.
+ * must be defined after class BanCacheHit.
+ */
 #ifndef WIN32
-typedef nspace::hash_map<std::string, BanCacheHit *, nspace::hash<std::string> > BanCacheHash;
+typedef nspace::hash_map<std::string, BanCacheHit*, nspace::hash<std::string> > BanCacheHash;
 #else
 typedef nspace::hash_map<std::string, BanCacheHit*, nspace::hash_compare<std::string, std::less<std::string> > > BanCacheHash;
 #endif
 
+/** A manager for ban cache, which allocates and deallocates and checks cached bans.
+ */
 class CoreExport BanCacheManager : public classbase
 {
  private:
-       BanCacheHash *BanHash;
-       InspIRCd *ServerInstance;
+       BanCacheHash* BanHash;
+       InspIRCd* ServerInstance;
  public:
 
        /** Creates and adds a Ban Cache item.