From b0b68590562f7726034fd82d35d19cdb2b388d71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Volker Birk <vb@pep.foundation>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 14:41:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] attach and detach C structs

---
 src/Identity.cc | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/Identity.hh |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Identity.cc b/src/Identity.cc
index 933f918..fb1250f 100644
--- a/src/Identity.cc
+++ b/src/Identity.cc
@@ -19,11 +19,35 @@ namespace pEp {
                 throw bad_alloc();
         }
 
+        Identity::Identity(pEp_identity *ident)
+            : _ident(ident)
+        {
+
+        }
+
         Identity::~Identity()
         {
             free_identity(_ident);
         }
 
+        void Identity::attach(pEp_identity *ident)
+        {
+            free_identity(_ident);
+            _ident = ident;
+        }
+
+        pEp_identity *Identity::detach()
+        {
+            pEp_identity *new_one = new_identity(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+            if (!new_one)
+                throw bad_alloc();
+
+            pEp_identity *ident = _ident;
+            _ident = new_one;
+
+            return ident;
+        }
+
         Identity::operator pEp_identity *()
         {
             if (!_ident)
diff --git a/src/Identity.hh b/src/Identity.hh
index 11c5752..8aff91c 100644
--- a/src/Identity.hh
+++ b/src/Identity.hh
@@ -16,8 +16,11 @@ namespace pEp {
         public:
             Identity();
             Identity(const Identity& second);
+            Identity(pEp_identity *ident);
             ~Identity();
             operator pEp_identity *();
+            void attach(pEp_identity *ident);
+            pEp_identity *detach();
 
             void address(string value) { str_attr(_ident->address, value); }
             string address() { return str_attr(_ident->address); }