MdeModulePkg/Library: Add HiiGetStringEx to UefiHiiLib for EDK2 Redfish

Add HiiGetStringEx and leveraged by HiiGetString function to support
getting string with the best language in optionally. This avoids the
string in x-uefi language is misled to the language defined by
"PlatformLang" or the "Supported Languages". This change is introduced
to support x-uefi keyword language for configuring BIOS setting.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxin Wu <jiaxin.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Siyuan Fu <siyuan.fu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fan Wang <fan.wang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Abner Chang <abner.chang@hpe.com>
Cc: Dandan Bi <dandan.bi@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
Cc: Nickle Wang <nickle.wang@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Dandan Bi <dandan.bi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/MdeModulePkg/Include/Library/HiiLib.h b/MdeModulePkg/Include/Library/HiiLib.h
index c475cb74a1..cd9027fefd 100644
--- a/MdeModulePkg/Include/Library/HiiLib.h
+++ b/MdeModulePkg/Include/Library/HiiLib.h
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 /** @file

   Public include file for the HII Library

 

-Copyright (c) 2007 - 2018, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>

+Copyright (c) 2007 - 2021, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>

+(C) Copyright 2021 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP<BR>

 SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-Patent

 

 **/

@@ -123,16 +124,8 @@ HiiSetString (
 ;

 

 /**

-  Retrieves a string from a string package in a specific language.  If the language

-  is not specified, then a string from a string package in the current platform

-  language is retrieved.  If the string cannot be retrieved using the specified

-  language or the current platform language, then the string is retrieved from

-  the string package in the first language the string package supports.  The

-  returned string is allocated using AllocatePool().  The caller is responsible

-  for freeing the allocated buffer using FreePool().

-

-  If HiiHandle is NULL, then ASSERT().

-  If StringId is 0, then ASSERT().

+  Retrieves a string from a string package in a specific language specified in Language

+  or in the best lanaguage. See HiiGetStringEx () for the details.

 

   @param[in]  HiiHandle  A handle that was previously registered in the HII Database.

   @param[in]  StringId   The identifier of the string to retrieved from the string

@@ -152,8 +145,49 @@ HiiGetString (
   IN EFI_HII_HANDLE  HiiHandle,

   IN EFI_STRING_ID   StringId,

   IN CONST CHAR8     *Language  OPTIONAL

-  )

-;

+  );

+

+/**

+  Retrieves a string from a string package in a specific language or in the best

+  language at discretion of this function according to the priority of languages.

+  TryBestLanguage is used to get the string in the best language or in the language

+  specified in Language parameter. The behavior is,

+  If TryBestLanguage is TRUE, this function looks for the best language for the string.

+   - If the string can not be retrieved using the specified language or the current

+     platform language, then the string is retrieved from the string package in the

+     first language the string package supports.

+  If TryBestLanguage is FALSE, Language must be specified for retrieving the string.

+

+  The returned string is allocated using AllocatePool().  The caller is responsible

+  for freeing the allocated buffer using FreePool().

+

+  If HiiHandle is NULL, then ASSERT().

+  If StringId is 0, then ASSET.

+  If TryBestLanguage is FALE and Language is NULL, then ASSERT().

+

+  @param[in]  HiiHandle         A handle that was previously registered in the HII Database.

+  @param[in]  StringId          The identifier of the string to retrieved from the string

+                                package associated with HiiHandle.

+  @param[in]  Language          The language of the string to retrieve.  If this parameter

+                                is NULL, then the current platform language is used.  The

+                                format of Language must follow the language format assumed

+                                the HII Database.

+  @param[in]  TryBestLanguage   If TRUE, try to get the best matching language from all

+                                supported languages.If FALSE, the Language must be assigned

+                                for the StringID.

+

+  @retval NULL   The string specified by StringId is not present in the string package.

+  @retval Other  The string was returned.

+

+**/

+EFI_STRING

+EFIAPI

+HiiGetStringEx (

+  IN EFI_HII_HANDLE  HiiHandle,

+  IN EFI_STRING_ID   StringId,

+  IN CONST CHAR8     *Language  OPTIONAL,

+  IN BOOLEAN         TryBestLanguage

+  );

 

 /**

   Retrieves a string from a string package named by GUID, in the specified language.