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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_STRING_TRAITS_H_
6 #define MOJO_PUBLIC_CPP_BINDINGS_STRING_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 string.
14 //
15 // Imagine you want to specialize it for CustomString, usually you need to
16 // implement:
17 //
18 //   template <T>
19 //   struct StringTraits<CustomString> {
20 //     // These two methods are optional. Please see comments in struct_traits.h
21 //     static bool IsNull(const CustomString& input);
22 //     static void SetToNull(CustomString* output);
23 //
24 //     static size_t GetSize(const CustomString& input);
25 //     static const char* GetData(const CustomString& input);
26 //
27 //     // The caller guarantees that |!input.is_null()|.
28 //     static bool Read(StringDataView input, CustomString* output);
29 //   };
30 //
31 // In some cases, you may need to do conversion before you can return the size
32 // and data as 8-bit characters for serialization. (For example, CustomString is
33 // UTF-16 string). In that case, you can add two optional methods:
34 //
35 //   static void* SetUpContext(const CustomString& input);
36 //   static void TearDownContext(const CustomString& input, void* context);
37 //
38 // And then you append a second parameter, void* context, to GetSize() and
39 // GetData():
40 //
41 //   static size_t GetSize(const CustomString& input, void* context);
42 //   static const char* GetData(const CustomString& input, void* context);
43 //
44 // If a CustomString instance is not null, the serialization code will call
45 // SetUpContext() at the beginning, and pass the resulting context pointer to
46 // GetSize()/GetData(). After serialization is done, it calls TearDownContext()
47 // so that you can do any necessary cleanup.
48 //
49 template <typename T>
50 struct StringTraits {
51   static_assert(internal::AlwaysFalse<T>::value,
52                 "Cannot find the mojo::StringTraits specialization. Did you "
53                 "forget to include the corresponding header file?");
54 };
55 
56 }  // namespace mojo
57 
58 #endif  // MOJO_PUBLIC_CPP_BINDINGS_STRING_TRAITS_H_
59