PInvoke FbwfFindFirst - FbwfCacheDetail problems

Question

I'm trying to create a PInvoke for FbwfFindFirst and am struggling with the struct FbwfCacheDetail.

In short, I'm not sure how to marshal WCHAR fileName[1]; seeing as it's a variable length array and a non-null terminated.

Any help would be welcomed

Answer 1

Simon Mourier's answer is 99% correct, and with normal APIs it would have definitely worked, but it appears as if this particular API doesn't follow "normal rules", whatever that might be ;). As such, I needed to modify a couple things and this is what worked for me:

const int ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER = 122;
const int ERROR_MORE_DATA = 234;

var volume = "C:";
var fileName = string.Empty;
var size = 0;

while (true)
{
    var ptr = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(size); // FbwfFindFirst fails if given IntPtr.Zero - regardless of what the value of size is.

    try
    {
        var result = FbwfFindFirst(volume, ptr, ref size);

        // Despite documentation saying otherwise, it can return either of these
        if (result == ERROR_MORE_DATA || result == ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER)
        {
            continue;
        }

        if (result != 0)
        {
            throw new Exception($"Failed with {result}");
        }

        // get the easy part 
        var detail = (FbwfCacheDetail) Marshal.PtrToStructure(ptr, typeof(FbwfCacheDetail));

        // compute filename offset and get the string
        // file name length is in bytes, per documentation
        fileName = Marshal.PtrToStringUni(ptr + Marshal.OffsetOf(typeof(FbwfCacheDetail), "fileName").ToInt32(), detail.fileNameLength / 2);
        break;
    }
    finally
    {
        Marshal.FreeHGlobal(ptr);
    }
}

EDIT

Forgot to say that the pinvoke for FbwfFindFirst needs to be as follows, else it will return ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER:

[DllImport("fbwflib.dll")]
public static extern uint FbwfFindFirst(
    [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)]    
    string volume,
    IntPtr cacheDetail,
    ref int size
);