strngs.h

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/**********************************************************************
 * File:        strngs.h  (Formerly strings.h)
 * Description: STRING class definition.
 * Author:      Ray Smith
 *
 * (C) Copyright 1991, Hewlett-Packard Ltd.
 ** Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 ** you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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#ifndef STRNGS_H
#define STRNGS_H
 
#include <cassert>  // for assert
#include <cstdint>  // for uint32_t
#include <cstdio>   // for FILE
#include <cstring>  // for strncpy
 
#include "platform.h"  // for TESS_API
 
namespace tesseract {
class TFile;
}  // namespace tesseract.
 
// STRING_IS_PROTECTED means that  string[index] = X is invalid
// because you have to go through strings interface to modify it.
// This allows the string to ensure internal integrity and maintain
// its own string length. Unfortunately this is not possible because
// STRINGS are used as direct-manipulation data buffers for things
// like length arrays and many places cast away the const on c_str()
// to mutate the string. Turning this off means that internally we
// cannot assume we know the strlen.
#define STRING_IS_PROTECTED 0
 
template <typename T>
class GenericVector;
 
class TESS_API STRING {
 public:
  STRING();
  STRING(const STRING& string);
  STRING(const char* string);
  STRING(const char* data, int length);
  ~STRING();
 
  // Writes to the given file. Returns false in case of error.
  bool Serialize(FILE* fp) const;
  // Reads from the given file. Returns false in case of error.
  // If swap is true, assumes a big/little-endian swap is needed.
  bool DeSerialize(bool swap, FILE* fp);
  // Writes to the given file. Returns false in case of error.
  bool Serialize(tesseract::TFile* fp) const;
  // Reads from the given file. Returns false in case of error.
  // If swap is true, assumes a big/little-endian swap is needed.
  bool DeSerialize(tesseract::TFile* fp);
  // As DeSerialize, but only seeks past the data - hence a static method.
  static bool SkipDeSerialize(tesseract::TFile* fp);
 
  bool contains(char c) const;
  int32_t length() const;
  int32_t size() const {
    return length();
  }
  // Workaround to avoid g++ -Wsign-compare warnings.
  uint32_t unsigned_size() const {
    const int32_t len = length();
    assert(0 <= len);
    return static_cast<uint32_t>(len);
  }
  const char* c_str() const;
 
  inline char* strdup() const {
    int32_t len = length() + 1;
    return strncpy(new char[len], GetCStr(), len);
  }
 
#if STRING_IS_PROTECTED
  const char& operator[](int32_t index) const;
  // len is number of chars in s to insert starting at index in this string
  void insert_range(int32_t index, const char* s, int len);
  void erase_range(int32_t index, int len);
#else
  char& operator[](int32_t index) const;
#endif
  void split(char c, GenericVector<STRING>* splited);
  void truncate_at(int32_t index);
 
  bool operator==(const STRING& string) const;
  bool operator!=(const STRING& string) const;
  bool operator!=(const char* string) const;
 
  STRING& operator=(const char* string);
  STRING& operator=(const STRING& string);
 
  STRING operator+(const STRING& string) const;
  STRING operator+(char ch) const;
 
  STRING& operator+=(const char* string);
  STRING& operator+=(const STRING& string);
  STRING& operator+=(char ch);
 
  // Assignment for strings which are not null-terminated.
  void assign(const char* cstr, int len);
 
  // Appends the given string and int (as a %d) to this.
  // += cannot be used for ints as there as a char += operator that would
  // be ambiguous, and ints usually need a string before or between them
  // anyway.
  void add_str_int(const char* str, int number);
  // Appends the given string and double (as a %.8g) to this.
  void add_str_double(const char* str, double number);
 
  // ensure capacity but keep pointer encapsulated
  inline void ensure(int32_t min_capacity) {
    ensure_cstr(min_capacity);
  }
 
 private:
  typedef struct STRING_HEADER {
    // How much space was allocated in the string buffer for char data.
    int capacity_;
 
    // used_ is how much of the capacity is currently being used,
    // including a '\0' terminator.
    //
    // If used_ is 0 then string is nullptr (not even the '\0')
    // else if used_ > 0 then it is strlen() + 1 (because it includes '\0')
    // else strlen is >= 0 (not nullptr) but needs to be computed.
    //      this condition is set when encapsulation is violated because
    //      an API returned a mutable string.
    //
    // capacity_ - used_ = excess capacity that the string can grow
    //                     without reallocating
    mutable int used_;
  } STRING_HEADER;
 
  // To preserve the behavior of the old serialization, we only have space
  // for one pointer in this structure. So we are embedding a data structure
  // at the start of the storage that will hold additional state variables,
  // then storing the actual string contents immediately after.
  STRING_HEADER* data_;
 
  // returns the header part of the storage
  inline STRING_HEADER* GetHeader() {
    return data_;
  }
  inline const STRING_HEADER* GetHeader() const {
    return data_;
  }
 
  // returns the string data part of storage
  inline char* GetCStr() {
    return (reinterpret_cast<char*>(data_)) + sizeof(STRING_HEADER);
  }
 
  inline const char* GetCStr() const {
    return (reinterpret_cast<const char*>(data_)) + sizeof(STRING_HEADER);
  }
  inline bool InvariantOk() const {
#if STRING_IS_PROTECTED
    return (GetHeader()->used_ == 0)
               ? (c_str() == nullptr)
               : (GetHeader()->used_ == (strlen(c_str()) + 1));
#else
    return true;
#endif
  }
 
  // Ensure string has requested capacity as optimization
  // to avoid unnecessary reallocations.
  // The return value is a cstr buffer with at least requested capacity
  char* ensure_cstr(int32_t min_capacity);
 
  void FixHeader() const;  // make used_ non-negative, even if const
 
  char* AllocData(int used, int capacity);
  void DiscardData();
};
 
#endif