Providing Callbacks for ELS Services

If your application is using asynchronous operations for text recognition, it must provide a callback function for the ELS service to use. The callback function is based on the MappingCallbackProc prototype.

The Requesting Text Recognition topic describes how your application can request asynchronous text recognition from an ELS service. The following example shows an application that makes an asynchronous call to MappingRecognizeText. The callback function for text recognition is called RecognizeCallback. Note that the application must make sure that the property bag, the input text, the options, and the service are all valid until after the callback function has finished executing. Additionally, the application must ensure that MappingFreePropertyBag is called immediately after the bag is consumed by the callback function.

Note

It might be a good idea for your application to use the callback function to free the resources after it has finished processing or copying them.

 

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <elscore.h>
#include <elssrvc.h>

#define USER_TEXT ( \
    L"Skip This is a simple sentence. " \
    L"\x0422\x0445\x0438\x0441 \x0438\x0441 \x0415\x043d\x0433\x043b\x0438\x0441\x0445.")
#define USER_TEXT_SKIP (5)

int __cdecl main();
HRESULT CallMappingRecognizeText(PMAPPING_SERVICE_INFO pService);
void RecognizeCallback(
     PMAPPING_PROPERTY_BAG pBag, 
     LPVOID data, DWORD dwDataSize, 
     HRESULT Result); 

int __cdecl main()
{
    MAPPING_ENUM_OPTIONS    EnumOptions;
    PMAPPING_SERVICE_INFO   prgServices = NULL;
    DWORD                   dwServicesCount = 0;
    HRESULT                 hResult;

    ZeroMemory(&EnumOptions, sizeof (MAPPING_ENUM_OPTIONS));
    EnumOptions.Size = sizeof (MAPPING_ENUM_OPTIONS);
    // Using the Language Auto-Detection GUID to enumerate LAD only:
    EnumOptions.pGuid = (GUID *)&ELS_GUID_LANGUAGE_DETECTION;
    hResult = MappingGetServices(&EnumOptions, &prgServices, &dwServicesCount);

    if (SUCCEEDED(hResult))
    {
        hResult = CallMappingRecognizeText(&prgServices[0]);
        if (SUCCEEDED(hResult))
        {
            printf("Calling the service %ws has succeeded!\n",
                prgServices[0].pszDescription);
        }
        else
        {
            printf("Calling the service %ws has failed, failure = 0x%x!\n",
                prgServices[0].pszDescription, hResult);
        }
        MappingFreeServices(prgServices);
    }

    return 0;
}

HRESULT CallMappingRecognizeText(PMAPPING_SERVICE_INFO pService)
{
    MAPPING_PROPERTY_BAG    bag;
    MAPPING_OPTIONS         Options;
    HRESULT                 hResult;
    HANDLE                  SyncEvent;
    DWORD                   dwWaitResult;

    SyncEvent = CreateEvent(NULL, FALSE, FALSE, NULL);

    if (SyncEvent == NULL)
    {
        hResult = E_FAIL;
    }
    else
    {
        ZeroMemory(&bag, sizeof (MAPPING_PROPERTY_BAG));
        bag.Size = sizeof (MAPPING_PROPERTY_BAG);

        ZeroMemory(&Options, sizeof (MAPPING_OPTIONS));
        Options.Size = sizeof (MAPPING_OPTIONS);
        Options.pfnRecognizeCallback = (PFN_MAPPINGCALLBACKPROC)RecognizeCallback;
        Options.pRecognizeCallerData = &SyncEvent;
        Options.dwRecognizeCallerDataSize = sizeof (HANDLE);

        // MappingRecognizeText's dwIndex parameter specifies the first
        // index inside the text from where the recognition should start.
        // We pass USER_TEXT_SKIP, thus skipping the "Skip " part
        // of the input string.
        hResult = MappingRecognizeText(pService, USER_TEXT, wcslen(USER_TEXT), USER_TEXT_SKIP, &Options, &bag);
        if (SUCCEEDED(hResult))
        {
            // We are using an event to synchronize our waiting for the call to end,
            // because some objects have to be valid till the end of the callback call:
            // - the input text
            // - the property bag
            // - the options
            // - the service
            dwWaitResult = WaitForSingleObject(SyncEvent, INFINITE);
            if (dwWaitResult != WAIT_OBJECT_0)
            {
                hResult = E_FAIL;
            }
        }
        CloseHandle(SyncEvent);
    }
    return hResult;
}

void RecognizeCallback(PMAPPING_PROPERTY_BAG pBag, LPVOID data, DWORD dwDataSize, HRESULT Result)
{
    HANDLE SyncEvent;
    WCHAR * p;

    UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER(dwDataSize);

    if (SUCCEEDED(Result))
    {
        for (p = (WCHAR *)pBag->prgResultRanges[0].pData; *p; p += wcslen(p) + 1)
        {
            printf("%ws\n", p);
        }
        MappingFreePropertyBag(pBag);
    }

    SyncEvent = *((HANDLE *)data);
    SetEvent(SyncEvent);
} 

Related topics

Using Extended Linguistic Services

Requesting Text Recognition

MappingCallbackProc

MappingFreePropertyBag

MappingRecognizeText