firebase-ios-sdk/Firestore/Source/Local/StringView.h

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#ifndef IPHONE_FIRESTORE_SOURCE_LOCAL_STRING_VIEW_H_
#define IPHONE_FIRESTORE_SOURCE_LOCAL_STRING_VIEW_H_

#ifndef __cplusplus
#error "StringView is Objective-C++ and can only be included from .mm files"
#endif

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

#include <leveldb/slice.h>
#include <string>

namespace Firestore {

// A simple wrapper for the character data of any string-like type to which
// we'd like to temporarily refer as an argument.
//
// This is superficially similar to StringPiece and leveldb::Slice except
// that it also supports implicit conversion from NSString *, which is useful
// when writing Objective-C++ methods that accept any string-like type.
//
// Note that much like any other view-type class in C++, the caller is
// responsible for ensuring that the lifetime of the string-like data is longer
// than the lifetime of the StringView.
//
// Functions that take a StringView argument promise that they won't keep the
// pointer beyond the immediate scope of their own stack frame.
class StringView {
 public:
  // Creates a StringView from an NSString. When StringView is an argument type
  // into which an NSString* is passed, the caller should ensure that the
  // NSString is retained.
  StringView(NSString *str) : data_([str UTF8String]), size_(str.length) {
  }

  // Creates a StringView from the given char* pointer with an explicit size.
  // The character data can contain NUL bytes as a result.
  StringView(const char *data, size_t size) : data_(data), size_(size) {
  }

  // Creates a StringView from the given char* pointer but computes the size
  // with strlen. This is really only suitable for passing C string literals.
  StringView(const char *data) : data_(data), size_(strlen(data)) {
  }

  // Creates a StringView from the given slice.
  StringView(leveldb::Slice slice) : data_(slice.data()), size_(slice.size()) {
  }

  // Creates a StringView from the given std::string. The string must be an
  // lvalue for the lifetime requirements to be satisfied.
  StringView(const std::string &str) : data_(str.data()), size_(str.size()) {
  }

  // Converts this StringView to a Slice, which is an equivalent (and more
  // functional) type. The returned slice has the same lifetime as this
  // StringView.
  operator leveldb::Slice() {
    return leveldb::Slice(data_, size_);
  }

 private:
  const char *data_;
  const size_t size_;
};

}  // namespace Firestore

#endif  // IPHONE_FIRESTORE_SOURCE_LOCAL_STRING_VIEW_H_