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      1 // Copyright 2016 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 #ifndef MOJO_PUBLIC_CPP_BINDINGS_ARRAY_TRAITS_H_
      6 #define MOJO_PUBLIC_CPP_BINDINGS_ARRAY_TRAITS_H_
      7 
      8 namespace mojo {
      9 
     10 // This must be specialized for any type |T| to be serialized/deserialized as
     11 // a mojom array.
     12 //
     13 // Usually you would like to do a partial specialization for a container (e.g.
     14 // vector) template. Imagine you want to specialize it for Container<>, you need
     15 // to implement:
     16 //
     17 //   template <typename T>
     18 //   struct ArrayTraits<Container<T>> {
     19 //     using Element = T;
     20 //     // These two statements are optional. Use them if you'd like to serialize
     21 //     // a container that supports iterators but does not support O(1) random
     22 //     // access and so GetAt(...) would be expensive.
     23 //     // using Iterator = T::iterator;
     24 //     // using ConstIterator = T::const_iterator;
     25 //
     26 //     // These two methods are optional. Please see comments in struct_traits.h
     27 //     static bool IsNull(const Container<T>& input);
     28 //     static void SetToNull(Container<T>* output);
     29 //
     30 //     static size_t GetSize(const Container<T>& input);
     31 //
     32 //     // These two methods are optional. They are used to access the
     33 //     // underlying storage of the array to speed up copy of POD types.
     34 //     static T* GetData(Container<T>& input);
     35 //     static const T* GetData(const Container<T>& input);
     36 //
     37 //     // The following six methods are optional if the GetAt(...) methods are
     38 //     // implemented. These methods specify how to read the elements of
     39 //     // Container in some sequential order specified by the iterator.
     40 //     //
     41 //     // Acquires an iterator positioned at the first element in the container.
     42 //     static ConstIterator GetBegin(const Container<T>& input);
     43 //     static Iterator GetBegin(Container<T>& input);
     44 //
     45 //     // Advances |iterator| to the next position within the container.
     46 //     static void AdvanceIterator(ConstIterator& iterator);
     47 //     static void AdvanceIterator(Iterator& iterator);
     48 //
     49 //     // Returns a reference to the value at the current position of
     50 //     // |iterator|. Optionally, the ConstIterator version of GetValue can
     51 //     // return by value instead of by reference if it makes sense for the
     52 //     // type.
     53 //     static const T& GetValue(ConstIterator& iterator);
     54 //     static T& GetValue(Iterator& iterator);
     55 //
     56 //     // These two methods are optional if the iterator methods are
     57 //     // implemented.
     58 //     static T& GetAt(Container<T>& input, size_t index);
     59 //     static const T& GetAt(const Container<T>& input, size_t index);
     60 //
     61 //     // Returning false results in deserialization failure and causes the
     62 //     // message pipe receiving it to be disconnected.
     63 //     static bool Resize(Container<T>& input, size_t size);
     64 //   };
     65 //
     66 template <typename T>
     67 struct ArrayTraits;
     68 
     69 }  // namespace mojo
     70 
     71 #endif  // MOJO_PUBLIC_CPP_BINDINGS_ARRAY_TRAITS_H_
     72