source: vbox/trunk/include/iprt/cpp/ministring.h@ 27843

/** @file
 * IPRT - Mini C++ string class.
 */

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#ifndef ___VBox_ministring_h
#define ___VBox_ministring_h

#include <iprt/mem.h>
#include <iprt/string.h>

#include <new>

namespace iprt
{

/**
 * @brief Mini C++ string class.
 *
 * "MiniString" is a small C++ string class that does not depend on anything
 * else except IPRT memory management functions.  Semantics are like in
 * std::string, except it can do a lot less.
 *
 *
 * Note that MiniString does not differentiate between NULL strings and
 * empty strings. In other words, MiniString("") and MiniString(NULL)
 * behave the same. In both cases, MiniString allocates no memory, reports
 * a zero length and zero allocated bytes for both, and returns an empty
 * C string from c_str().
 */
#ifdef VBOX
 /** @remarks Much of the code in here used to be in com::Utf8Str so that
  *          com::Utf8Str can now derive from MiniString and only contain code
  *          that is COM-specific, such as com::Bstr conversions.  Compared to
  *          the old Utf8Str though, MiniString always knows the length of its
  *          member string and the size of the buffer so it can use memcpy()
  *          instead of strdup().
  */
#endif
class RT_DECL_CLASS MiniString
{
public:
    /**
     * Creates an empty string that has no memory allocated.
     */
    MiniString()
        : m_psz(NULL),
          m_cbLength(0),
          m_cbAllocated(0)
    {
    }

    /**
     * Creates a copy of another MiniString.
     *
     * This allocates s.length() + 1 bytes for the new instance, unless s is empty.
     *
     * @param   s               The source string.
     *
     * @throws  std::bad_alloc
     */
    MiniString(const MiniString &s)
    {
        copyFrom(s);
    }

    /**
     * Creates a copy of a C string.
     *
     * This allocates strlen(pcsz) + 1 bytes for the new instance, unless s is empty.
     *
     * @param   pcsz            The source string.
     *
     * @throws  std::bad_alloc
     */
    MiniString(const char *pcsz)
    {
        copyFrom(pcsz);
    }

    /**
     * Destructor.
     */
    virtual ~MiniString()
    {
        cleanup();
    }

    /**
     * String length in bytes.
     *
     * Returns the length of the member string, which is equal to strlen(c_str()).
     * In other words, this does not count unicode codepoints but returns the number
     * of bytes.  This is always cached so calling this is cheap and requires no
     * strlen() invocation.
     *
     * @returns m_cbLength.
     */
    size_t length() const
    {
        return m_cbLength;
    }

    /**
     * The allocated buffer size (in bytes).
     *
     * Returns the number of bytes allocated in the internal string buffer, which is
     * at least length() + 1 if length() > 0; for an empty string, this returns 0.
     *
     * @returns m_cbAllocated.
     */
    size_t capacity() const
    {
        return m_cbAllocated;
    }

    /**
     * Make sure at that least cb of buffer space is reserved.
     *
     * Requests that the contained memory buffer have at least cb bytes allocated.
     * This may expand or shrink the string's storage, but will never truncate the
     * contained string.  In other words, cb will be ignored if it's smaller than
     * length() + 1.
     *
     * @param   cb              New minimum size (in bytes) of member memory buffer.
     *
     * @throws  std::bad_alloc  On allocation error.  The object is left unchanged.
     */
    void reserve(size_t cb)
    {
        if (    cb != m_cbAllocated
             && cb > m_cbLength + 1
           )
        {
            char *pszNew = (char*)RTMemRealloc(m_psz, cb);
            if (RT_LIKELY(pszNew))
            {
                if (!m_psz)
                    *pszNew = '\0';
                m_psz = pszNew;
                m_cbAllocated = cb;
            }
#ifdef RT_EXCEPTIONS_ENABLED
            else
                throw std::bad_alloc();
#endif
        }
    }

    /**
     * Deallocates all memory.
     */
    inline void setNull()
    {
        cleanup();
    }

    /**
     * Assigns a copy of pcsz to "this".
     *
     * @param   pcsz            The source string.
     *
     * @throws  std::bad_alloc  On allocation failure.  The object is left describing
     *             a NULL string.
     *
     * @returns Reference to the object.
     */
    MiniString &operator=(const char *pcsz)
    {
        if (m_psz != pcsz)
        {
            cleanup();
            copyFrom(pcsz);
        }
        return *this;
    }

    /**
     * Assigns a copy of s to "this".
     *
     * @param   s               The source string.
     *
     * @throws  std::bad_alloc  On allocation failure.  The object is left describing
     *             a NULL string.
     *
     * @returns Reference to the object.
     */
    MiniString &operator=(const MiniString &s)
    {
        if (this != &s)
        {
            cleanup();
            copyFrom(s);
        }
        return *this;
    }

    /**
     * Appends the string "that" to "this".
     *
     * @param   that            The string to append.
     *
     * @throws  std::bad_alloc  On allocation error.  The object is left unchanged.
     *
     * @returns Reference to the object.
     */
    MiniString &append(const MiniString &that);

    /**
     * Appends the given character to "this".
     *
     * @param   c               The character to append.
     *
     * @throws  std::bad_alloc  On allocation error.  The object is left unchanged.
     *
     * @returns Reference to the object.
     */
    MiniString &append(char c);

    /**
     * Index operator.
     *
     * Returns the byte at the given index, or a null byte if the index is not
     * smaller than length().  This does _not_ count codepoints but simply points
     * into the member C string.
     *
     * @param   i       The index into the string buffer.
     * @returns char at the index or null.
     */
    inline char operator[](size_t i) const
    {
        if (i < length())
            return m_psz[i];
        return '\0';
    }

    /**
     * Returns the contained string as a C-style const char* pointer.
     * This never returns NULL; if the string is empty, this returns a
     * pointer to static null byte.
     *
     * @returns const pointer to C-style string.
     */
    inline const char *c_str() const
    {
        return (m_psz) ? m_psz : "";
    }

    /**
     * Like c_str(), for compatibility with lots of VirtualBox Main code.
     *
     * @returns const pointer to C-style string.
     */
    inline const char *raw() const
    {
        return (m_psz) ? m_psz : "";
    }

    /**
     * Returns a non-const raw pointer that allows to modify the string directly.
     * As opposed to c_str() and raw(), this DOES return NULL for an empty string
     * because we cannot return a non-const pointer to a static "" global.
     *
     * @warning
     *      -# Be sure not to modify data beyond the allocated memory! Call
     *         capacity() to find out how large that buffer is.
     *      -# After any operation that modifies the length of the string,
     *         you _must_ call MiniString::jolt(), or subsequent copy operations
     *         may go nowhere.  Better not use mutableRaw() at all.
     */
    char *mutableRaw()
    {
        return m_psz;
    }

    /**
     * Clean up after using mutableRaw.
     *
     * Intended to be called after something has messed with the internal string
     * buffer (e.g. after using mutableRaw() or Utf8Str::asOutParam()).  Resets the
     * internal lengths correctly.  Otherwise subsequent copy operations may go
     * nowhere.
     */
    void jolt()
    {
        if (m_psz)
        {
            m_cbLength = strlen(m_psz);
            m_cbAllocated = m_cbLength + 1; /* (Required for the Utf8Str::asOutParam case) */
        }
        else
        {
            m_cbLength = 0;
            m_cbAllocated = 0;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns true if the member string has no length.
     * This is true for instances created from both NULL and "" input strings.
     *
     * This states nothing about how much memory might be allocated.
     *
     * @returns true if empty, false if not.
     */
    bool isEmpty() const
    {
        return length() == 0;
    }

    /** Case sensitivity selector. */
    enum CaseSensitivity
    {
        CaseSensitive,
        CaseInsensitive
    };

    /**
     * Compares the member string to pcsz.
     * @param pcsz
     * @param cs Whether comparison should be case-sensitive.
     * @return
     */
    int compare(const char *pcsz, CaseSensitivity cs = CaseSensitive) const
    {
        if (m_psz == pcsz)
            return 0;
        if (m_psz == NULL)
            return -1;
        if (pcsz == NULL)
            return 1;

        if (cs == CaseSensitive)
            return ::RTStrCmp(m_psz, pcsz);
        else
            return ::RTStrICmp(m_psz, pcsz);
    }

    int compare(const MiniString &that, CaseSensitivity cs = CaseSensitive) const
    {
        return compare(that.m_psz, cs);
    }

    /** @name Comparison operators.
     * @{  */
    bool operator==(const MiniString &that) const { return !compare(that); }
    bool operator!=(const MiniString &that) const { return !!compare(that); }
    bool operator<( const MiniString &that) const { return compare(that) < 0; }
    bool operator>( const MiniString &that) const { return compare(that) > 0; }

    bool operator==(const char *that) const       { return !compare(that); }
    bool operator!=(const char *that) const       { return !!compare(that); }
    bool operator<( const char *that) const       { return compare(that) < 0; }
    bool operator>( const char *that) const       { return compare(that) > 0; }
    /** @} */

    /** Max string offset value.
     *
     * When returned by a method, this indicates failure.  When taken as input,
     * typically a default, it means all the way to the string terminator.
     */
    static const size_t npos;

    /**
     * Find the given substring.
     *
     * Looks for pcszFind in "this" starting at "pos" and returns its position,
     * counting from the beginning of "this" at 0.
     *
     * @param   pcszFind        The substring to find.
     * @param   pos             The (byte) offset into the string buffer to start
     *                          searching.
     *
     * @returns 0 based position of pcszFind. npos if not found.
     */
    size_t find(const char *pcszFind, size_t pos = 0) const;

    /**
     * Returns a substring of "this" as a new Utf8Str.
     *
     * Works exactly like its equivalent in std::string except that this interprets
     * pos and n as unicode codepoints instead of bytes.  With the default
     * parameters "0" and "npos", this always copies the entire string.
     *
     * @param   pos             Index of first unicode codepoint to copy from
     *                          "this", counting from 0.
     * @param   n               Number of unicode codepoints to copy, starting with
     *                          the one at "pos".  The copying will stop if the null
     *                          terminator is encountered before n codepoints have
     *                          been copied.
     *
     * @remarks This works on code points, not bytes!
     */
    iprt::MiniString substr(size_t pos = 0, size_t n = npos) const;

    /**
     * Returns true if "this" ends with "that".
     *
     * @param   that    Suffix to test for.
     * @param   cs      Case sensitivity selector.
     * @returns true if match, false if mismatch.
     */
    bool endsWith(const iprt::MiniString &that, CaseSensitivity cs = CaseSensitive) const;

    /**
     * Returns true if "this" begins with "that".
     * @param   that    Prefix to test for.
     * @param   cs      Case sensitivity selector.
     * @returns true if match, false if mismatch.
     */
    bool startsWith(const iprt::MiniString &that, CaseSensitivity cs = CaseSensitive) const;

    /**
     * Returns true if "this" contains "that" (strstr).
     *
     * @param   that    Substring to look for.
     * @param   cs      Case sensitivity selector.
     * @returns true if match, false if mismatch.
     */
    bool contains(const iprt::MiniString &that, CaseSensitivity cs = CaseSensitive) const;

    /**
     * Attempts to convert the member string into an 64-bit integer.
     *
     * @returns 64-bit unsigned number on success.
     * @returns 0 on failure.
     */
    int64_t toInt64() const
    {
        return RTStrToInt64(m_psz);
    }

    /**
     * Attempts to convert the member string into an unsigned 64-bit integer.
     *
     * @returns 64-bit unsigned number on success.
     * @returns 0 on failure.
     */
    uint64_t toUInt64() const
    {
        return RTStrToUInt64(m_psz);
    }

    /**
     * Attempts to convert the member string into an unsigned 64-bit integer.
     *
     * @param   i       Where to return the value on success.
     * @returns IPRT error code, see RTStrToInt64.
     */
    int toInt(uint64_t &i) const;

    /**
     * Attempts to convert the member string into an unsigned 32-bit integer.
     *
     * @param   i       Where to return the value on success.
     * @returns IPRT error code, see RTStrToInt32.
     */
    int toInt(uint32_t &i) const;

protected:

    /**
     * Hide operator bool() to force people to use isEmpty() explicitly.
     */
    operator bool() const;

    /**
     * Destructor implementation, also used to clean up in operator=() before
     * assigning a new string.
     */
    void cleanup()
    {
        if (m_psz)
        {
            RTMemFree(m_psz);
            m_psz = NULL;
            m_cbLength = 0;
            m_cbAllocated = 0;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Protected internal helper to copy a string. This ignores the previous object
     * state, so either call this from a constructor or call cleanup() first.
     *
     * copyFrom() unconditionally sets the members to a copy of the given other
     * strings and makes no assumptions about previous contents. Can therefore be
     * used both in copy constructors, when member variables have no defined value,
     * and in assignments after having called cleanup().
     *
     * This variant copies from another MiniString and is fast since
     * the length of the source string is known.
     *
     * @param   s               The source string.
     *
     * @throws  std::bad_alloc  On allocation failure. The object is left describing
     *             a NULL string.
     */
    void copyFrom(const MiniString &s)
    {
        if ((m_cbLength = s.m_cbLength))
        {
            m_cbAllocated = m_cbLength + 1;
            m_psz = (char *)RTMemAlloc(m_cbAllocated);
            if (RT_LIKELY(m_psz))
                memcpy(m_psz, s.m_psz, m_cbAllocated);      // include 0 terminator
            else
            {
                m_cbLength = 0;
                m_cbAllocated = 0;
#ifdef RT_EXCEPTIONS_ENABLED
                throw std::bad_alloc();
#endif
            }
        }
        else
        {
            m_cbAllocated = 0;
            m_psz = NULL;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Protected internal helper to copy a string. This ignores the previous object
     * state, so either call this from a constructor or call cleanup() first.
     *
     * See copyFrom() above.
     *
     * This variant copies from a C string and needs to call strlen()
     * on it. It's therefore slower than the one above.
     *
     * @param   pcsz            The source string.
     *
     * @throws  std::bad_alloc  On allocation failure. The object is left describing
     *             a NULL string.
     */
    void copyFrom(const char *pcsz)
    {
        if (pcsz && *pcsz)
        {
            m_cbLength = strlen(pcsz);
            m_cbAllocated = m_cbLength + 1;
            m_psz = (char *)RTMemAlloc(m_cbAllocated);
            if (RT_LIKELY(m_psz))
                memcpy(m_psz, pcsz, m_cbAllocated);     // include 0 terminator
            else
            {
                m_cbLength = 0;
                m_cbAllocated = 0;
#ifdef RT_EXCEPTIONS_ENABLED
                throw std::bad_alloc();
#endif
            }
        }
        else
        {
            m_cbLength = 0;
            m_cbAllocated = 0;
            m_psz = NULL;
        }
    }

    char    *m_psz;                     /**< The string buffer. */
    size_t  m_cbLength;                 /**< strlen(m_psz) - i.e. no terminator included. */
    size_t  m_cbAllocated;              /**< Size of buffer that m_psz points to; at least m_cbLength + 1. */
};

} // namespace iprt

#endif