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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 #include "mojo/public/cpp/bindings/lib/template_util.h"
9 
10 namespace mojo {
11 
12 // This must be specialized for any type |T| to be serialized/deserialized as
13 // a mojom array.
14 //
15 // Usually you would like to do a partial specialization for a container (e.g.
16 // vector) template. Imagine you want to specialize it for Container<>, you need
17 // to implement:
18 //
19 //   template <typename T>
20 //   struct ArrayTraits<Container<T>> {
21 //     using Element = T;
22 //     // These two statements are optional. Use them if you'd like to serialize
23 //     // a container that supports iterators but does not support O(1) random
24 //     // access and so GetAt(...) would be expensive.
25 //     // using Iterator = T::iterator;
26 //     // using ConstIterator = T::const_iterator;
27 //
28 //     // These two methods are optional. Please see comments in struct_traits.h
29 //     // Note that unlike with StructTraits, IsNull() is called *twice* during
30 //     // serialization for ArrayTraits.
31 //     static bool IsNull(const Container<T>& input);
32 //     static void SetToNull(Container<T>* output);
33 //
34 //     static size_t GetSize(const Container<T>& input);
35 //
36 //     // These two methods are optional. They are used to access the
37 //     // underlying storage of the array to speed up copy of POD types.
38 //     static T* GetData(Container<T>& input);
39 //     static const T* GetData(const Container<T>& input);
40 //
41 //     // The following six methods are optional if the GetAt(...) methods are
42 //     // implemented. These methods specify how to read the elements of
43 //     // Container in some sequential order specified by the iterator.
44 //     //
45 //     // Acquires an iterator positioned at the first element in the container.
46 //     static ConstIterator GetBegin(const Container<T>& input);
47 //     static Iterator GetBegin(Container<T>& input);
48 //
49 //     // Advances |iterator| to the next position within the container.
50 //     static void AdvanceIterator(ConstIterator& iterator);
51 //     static void AdvanceIterator(Iterator& iterator);
52 //
53 //     // Returns a reference to the value at the current position of
54 //     // |iterator|. Optionally, the ConstIterator version of GetValue can
55 //     // return by value instead of by reference if it makes sense for the
56 //     // type.
57 //     static const T& GetValue(ConstIterator& iterator);
58 //     static T& GetValue(Iterator& iterator);
59 //
60 //     // These two methods are optional if the iterator methods are
61 //     // implemented.
62 //     static T& GetAt(Container<T>& input, size_t index);
63 //     static const T& GetAt(const Container<T>& input, size_t index);
64 //
65 //     // Returning false results in deserialization failure and causes the
66 //     // message pipe receiving it to be disconnected.
67 //     static bool Resize(Container<T>& input, size_t size);
68 //   };
69 //
70 template <typename T>
71 struct ArrayTraits {
72   static_assert(internal::AlwaysFalse<T>::value,
73                 "Cannot find the mojo::ArrayTraits specialization. Did you "
74                 "forget to include the corresponding header file?");
75 };
76 
77 }  // namespace mojo
78 
79 #endif  // MOJO_PUBLIC_CPP_BINDINGS_ARRAY_TRAITS_H_
80