wlan-cloud-lib-cppkafka/include/cppkafka/buffer.h

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#ifndef CPPKAFKA_BUFFER_H
#define CPPKAFKA_BUFFER_H

#include <cstddef>
#include <vector>
#include <iosfwd>
#include <algorithm>

namespace cppkafka {

/**
 * \brief Represents a view of a buffer.
 * 
 * This is only a view, hence you should convert the contents of a buffer into
 * some other container if you want to store it somewhere. 
 *
 * If you're using this to produce a message, you *need* to guarantee that the
 * pointer that this buffer points to will still until the call to Producer::produce
 * returns.
 */
class Buffer {
public:
    /**
     * The type of data this buffer points to
     */
    using DataType = unsigned char;

    /**
     * The const iterator type
     */
    using const_iterator = const DataType*;

    /**
     * Constructs an empty buffer
     */
    Buffer();

    /**
     * Constructs a buffer from a pointer and a size
     *
     * \param data A pointer to some type of size 1
     * \param size The size of the buffer
     */
    template <typename T>
    Buffer(const T* data, size_t size) 
    : data_(reinterpret_cast<const DataType*>(data)), size_(size) {
        static_assert(sizeof(T) == sizeof(DataType), "sizeof(T) != sizeof(DataType)");
    }

    /**
     * \brief Construct a buffer from a const string ref
     *
     * Note that you *can't use temporaries* here as they would be destructed after
     * the constructor finishes.
     */
    Buffer(const std::string& data); 

    // Don't allow construction from temporaries
    Buffer(std::string&&) = delete;

    Buffer(const Buffer&) = delete;
    Buffer(Buffer&&) = default;
    Buffer& operator=(const Buffer&) = delete;
    Buffer& operator=(Buffer&&) = default;

    /**
     * Getter for the data pointer
     */
    const DataType* get_data() const;

    /**
     * Getter for the size of the buffer
     */
    size_t get_size() const;

    /**
     * Gets an iterator to the beginning of this buffer
     */
    const_iterator begin() const;

    /**
     * Gets an iterator to the end of this buffer
     */
    const_iterator end() const;

    /**
     * Checks whether this is a non empty buffer
     */
    explicit operator bool() const;

    /**
     * Converts the contents of the buffer into a string
     */
    operator std::string() const;

    /**
     * \brief Converts the contents of the buffer into a vector.
     *
     * The vector must contain some type of size 1 (e.g. uint8_t, char, etc).
     */
    template <typename T>
    operator std::vector<T>() const {
        static_assert(sizeof(T) == sizeof(DataType), "sizeof(T) != sizeof(DataType)");
        return std::vector<T>(data_, data_ + size_);
    }

    /**
     * Compares this Buffer for equality 
     */
    bool operator==(const Buffer& rhs) const;

    /**
     * Compares this Buffer for inequality 
     */
    bool operator!=(const Buffer& rhs) const;

    /**
     * Output operator
     */
    friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& output, const Buffer& rhs);
private:
    const DataType* data_;
    size_t size_;
};

} // cppkafka

#endif // CPPKAFKA_BUFFER_H