upstream/utility/convert.hpp

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#pragma once

#include <limits>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <cmath>
#include <type_traits>

/* details namespace is here to hide implementation details to header end user. It
 * is NOT intended to be used outside. */
namespace details
{

/* List of allowed types for conversion */
template <typename T>
struct ConvertionAllowed : std::false_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowed<bool> : std::true_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowed<long long> : std::true_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowed<unsigned long long> : std::true_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowed<long> : std::true_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowed<unsigned long> : std::true_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowed<int> : std::true_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowed<unsigned int> : std::true_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowed<short> : std::true_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowed<unsigned short> : std::true_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowed<unsigned char> : std::true_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowed<signed char> : std::true_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowed<float> : std::true_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowed<double> : std::true_type
{
};

/* Allow chars and unsigned chars to be converted via integers */
template <typename T, typename Via>
struct ConvertionAllowedVia : std::false_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowedVia<unsigned char, unsigned int> : std::true_type
{
};
template <>
struct ConvertionAllowedVia<signed char, int> : std::true_type
{
};

template <typename T>
static inline bool convertTo(const std::string &str, T &result)
{
    /* Check that conversion to that type is allowed.
     * If this fails, this means that this template was not intended to be used
     * with this type, thus that the result is undefined. */
    static_assert(ConvertionAllowed<T>::value, "convertTo does not support this conversion");

    if (str.find_first_of(std::string("\r\n\t\v ")) != std::string::npos) {
        return false;
    }

    /* Check for a '-' in string. If type is unsigned and a - is found, the
     * parsing fails. This is made necessary because "-1" is read as 65535 for
     * uint16_t, for example */
    if (str.find("-") != std::string::npos && !std::numeric_limits<T>::is_signed) {
        return false;
    }

    std::stringstream ss(str);

    /* Sadly, the stream conversion does not handle hexadecimal format, thus
     * check is done manually */
    if (str.substr(0, 2) == "0x") {
        if (std::numeric_limits<T>::is_integer) {
            ss >> std::hex >> result;
        } else {
            /* Conversion undefined for non integers */
            return false;
        }
    } else {
        ss >> result;
    }

    return ss.eof() && !ss.fail() && !ss.bad();
}

template <typename T, typename Via>
static inline bool convertToVia(const std::string &str, T &result)
{
    /* Check that conversion to that type is allowed.
     * If this fails, this means that this template was not intended to be used
     * with this type, thus that the result is undefined. */
    static_assert(ConvertionAllowedVia<T, Via>::value,
                  "convertToVia does not support this conversion");

    /* We want to override the behaviour of convertTo<T> with that of
     * convertTo<Via> and then safely cast the result into a T. */
    Via res;

    if (!convertTo<Via>(str, res)) {
        return false;
    }

    if ((res > std::numeric_limits<T>::max()) or (res < std::numeric_limits<T>::min())) {
        return false;
    }

    result = static_cast<T>(res);
    return true;
}
} // namespace details

/**
 * Convert a string to a given type.
 *
 * This template function read the value of the type T in the given string.
 * The function does not allow to have white spaces around the value to parse
 * and tries to parse the whole string, which means that if some bytes were not
 * read in the string, the function fails.
 * Hexadecimal representation (ie numbers starting with 0x) is supported only
 * for integral types conversions.
 * Result may be modified, even in case of failure.
 *
 * @param[in]  str    the string to parse.
 * @param[out] result reference to object where to store the result.
 *
 * @return true if conversion was successful, false otherwise.
 */
template <typename T>
static inline bool convertTo(const std::string &str, T &result)
{
    return details::convertTo<T>(str, result);
}

/** Specialization for unsigned char of convertTo template function.
 *
 * This function follows the same paradigm than it's generic version.
 *
 * The generic version was converting char as it was a character
 * (unsigned char is an alias to unsigned char on most compiler).
 * Thus converting "1" would return 49 ie '1'.
 * As convertTo is thought as an _numerical_ convertion tool
 * (contrary to boost::lexical_cast for example),
 * forbid considering the input as a character and consider unsigned char
 * (aka unsigned char) as a number exclusively.
 *
 * @param[in]  str    the string to parse.
 * @param[out] result reference to object where to store the result.
 *
 * @return true if conversion was successful, false otherwise.
 */
template <>
inline bool convertTo<unsigned char>(const std::string &str, unsigned char &result)
{
    return details::convertToVia<unsigned char, unsigned int>(str, result);
}

/** Specialization for signed char of convertTo template function.
 *
 * @see convertTo<unsigned char>
 */
template <>
inline bool convertTo<signed char>(const std::string &str, signed char &result)
{
    return details::convertToVia<signed char, int>(str, result);
}
/**
 * Specialization for float of convertTo template function.
 *
 * This function follows the same paradigm than it's generic version and is
 * based on it but makes furthers checks on the returned value.
 *
 * The specific implementation is made necessary because the stlport conversion
 * from string to float behaves differently than GNU STL: overflow produce
 * +/-Infinity rather than an error.
 *
 * @param[in]  str    the string to parse.
 * @param[out] result reference to object where to store the result.
 *
 * @return true if conversion was successful, false otherwise.
 */
template <>
inline bool convertTo<float>(const std::string &str, float &result)
{
    if (!details::convertTo(str, result)) {
        return false;
    }

    if (!std::isfinite(result)) {
        return false;
    }

    return true;
}

/**
 * Specialization for double of convertTo template function.
 *
 * This function follows the same paradigm than it's generic version and is
 * based on it but makes furthers checks on the returned value.
 *
 * The specific implementation is made necessary because the stlport conversion
 * from string to double behaves differently than GNU STL: overflow produce
 * +/-Infinity rather than an error.
 *
 * @param[in]  str    the string to parse.
 * @param[out] result reference to object where to store the result.
 *
 * @return true if conversion was successful, false otherwise.
 */
template <>
inline bool convertTo<double>(const std::string &str, double &result)
{
    if (!details::convertTo(str, result)) {
        return false;
    }

    if (!std::isfinite(result)) {
        return false;
    }

    return true;
}

/**
 * Specialization for boolean of convertTo template function.
 *
 * This function follows the same paradigm than it's generic version.
 * This function accepts to parse boolean as "0/1" or "false/true" or
 * "FALSE/TRUE".
 * The specific implementation is made necessary because the behaviour of
 * string streams when parsing boolean values is not sufficient to fit our
 * requirements. Indeed, parsing "true" will correctly parse the value, but the
 * end of stream is not reached which makes the ss.eof() fails in the generic
 * implementation.
 *
 * @param[in]  str    the string to parse.
 * @param[out] result reference to object where to store the result.
 *
 * @return true if conversion was successful, false otherwise.
 */
template <>
inline bool convertTo<bool>(const std::string &str, bool &result)
{
    if (str == "0" || str == "FALSE" || str == "false") {
        result = false;
        return true;
    }

    if (str == "1" || str == "TRUE" || str == "true") {
        result = true;
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}