libcamera: request: Add cookie to make request tracking easier

Applications often have to map requests queued to a camera to external
resources. To make this easy, add a 64-bit integer cookie to the Request
class that is set when the request is created and can be retrieved at
any time, especially in the request completion handler. The cookie is
completely transparent for libcamera and is never modified.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/libcamera/camera.cpp b/src/libcamera/camera.cpp
index 810cb129..1f307654 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/camera.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/camera.cpp
@@ -754,10 +754,16 @@ int Camera::freeBuffers()
 
 /**
  * \brief Create a request object for the camera
+ * \param[in] cookie Opaque cookie for application use
  *
  * This method creates an empty request for the application to fill with
  * buffers and paramaters, and queue for capture.
  *
+ * The \a cookie is stored in the request and is accessible through the
+ * Request::cookie() method at any time. It is typically used by applications
+ * to map the request to an external resource in the request completion
+ * handler, and is completely opaque to libcamera.
+ *
  * The ownership of the returned request is passed to the caller, which is
  * responsible for either queueing the request or deleting it.
  *
@@ -766,12 +772,12 @@ int Camera::freeBuffers()
  *
  * \return A pointer to the newly created request, or nullptr on error
  */
-Request *Camera::createRequest()
+Request *Camera::createRequest(uint64_t cookie)
 {
 	if (disconnected_ || !stateBetween(CameraPrepared, CameraRunning))
 		return nullptr;
 
-	return new Request(this);
+	return new Request(this, cookie);
 }
 
 /**