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1 // Copyright (c) 2012 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 SYNC_INTERNAL_API_PUBLIC_BASE_UNIQUE_POSITION_H_
6 #define SYNC_INTERNAL_API_PUBLIC_BASE_UNIQUE_POSITION_H_
7 
8 #include <string>
9 
10 #include "base/basictypes.h"
11 #include "sync/base/sync_export.h"
12 
13 namespace sync_pb {
14 class UniquePosition;
15 }
16 
17 namespace syncer {
18 
19 // A class to represent positions.
20 //
21 // Valid UniquePosition objects have the following properties:
22 //
23 //  - a < b and b < c implies a < c (transitivity);
24 //  - exactly one of a < b, b < a and a = b holds (trichotomy);
25 //  - if a < b, there is a UniquePosition such that a < x < b (density);
26 //  - there are UniquePositions x and y such that x < a < y (unboundedness);
27 //  - if a and b were constructed with different unique suffixes, then a != b.
28 //
29 // As long as all UniquePositions used to sort a list were created with unique
30 // suffixes, then if any item changes its position in the list, only its
31 // UniquePosition value has to change to represent the new order, and all other
32 // values can stay the same.
33 //
34 // Note that the unique suffixes must be exactly |kSuffixLength| bytes long.
35 //
36 // The cost for all these features is potentially unbounded space usage.  In
37 // practice, however, most ordinals should be not much longer than the suffix.
38 //
39 // This class currently has several bookmarks-related assumptions built in,
40 // though it could be adapted to be more generally useful.
41 class SYNC_EXPORT_PRIVATE UniquePosition {
42  public:
43   static const size_t kSuffixLength;
44   static const size_t kCompressBytesThreshold;
45 
46   static bool IsValidSuffix(const std::string& suffix);
47   static bool IsValidBytes(const std::string& bytes);
48 
49   // Returns an invalid position.
50   static UniquePosition CreateInvalid();
51 
52   // Converts from a 'sync_pb::UniquePosition' protobuf to a UniquePosition.
53   // This may return an invalid position if the parsing fails.
54   static UniquePosition FromProto(const sync_pb::UniquePosition& proto);
55 
56   // Creates a position with the given suffix.  Ordering among positions created
57   // from this function is the same as that of the integer parameters that were
58   // passed in.
59   static UniquePosition FromInt64(int64 i, const std::string& suffix);
60 
61   // Returns a valid position.  Its ordering is not defined.
62   static UniquePosition InitialPosition(const std::string& suffix);
63 
64   // Returns positions compare smaller than, greater than, or between the input
65   // positions.
66   static UniquePosition Before(const UniquePosition& x,
67                                const std::string& suffix);
68   static UniquePosition After(const UniquePosition& x,
69                               const std::string& suffix);
70   static UniquePosition Between(const UniquePosition& before,
71                                 const UniquePosition& after,
72                                 const std::string& suffix);
73 
74   // This constructor creates an invalid value.
75   UniquePosition();
76 
77   bool LessThan(const UniquePosition& other) const;
78   bool Equals(const UniquePosition& other) const;
79 
80   // Serializes the position's internal state to a protobuf.
81   void ToProto(sync_pb::UniquePosition* proto) const;
82 
83   // Serializes the protobuf representation of this object as a string.
84   void SerializeToString(std::string* blob) const;
85 
86   // Returns a human-readable representation of this item's internal state.
87   std::string ToDebugString() const;
88 
89   // Returns the suffix.
90   std::string GetSuffixForTest() const;
91 
92   // Performs a lossy conversion to an int64 position.  Positions converted to
93   // and from int64s using this and the FromInt64 function should maintain their
94   // relative orderings unless the int64 values conflict.
95   int64 ToInt64() const;
96 
97   bool IsValid() const;
98 
99  private:
100   friend class UniquePositionTest;
101 
102   // Returns a string X such that (X ++ |suffix|) < |str|.
103   // |str| must be a trailing substring of a valid ordinal.
104   // |suffix| must be a valid unique suffix.
105   static std::string FindSmallerWithSuffix(const std::string& str,
106                                            const std::string& suffix);
107   // Returns a string X such that (X ++ |suffix|) > |str|.
108   // |str| must be a trailing substring of a valid ordinal.
109   // |suffix| must be a valid unique suffix.
110   static std::string FindGreaterWithSuffix(const std::string& str,
111                                            const std::string& suffix);
112   // Returns a string X such that |before| < (X ++ |suffix|) < |after|.
113   // |before| and after must be a trailing substrings of valid ordinals.
114   // |suffix| must be a valid unique suffix.
115   static std::string FindBetweenWithSuffix(const std::string& before,
116                                            const std::string& after,
117                                            const std::string& suffix);
118 
119   // Expects a run-length compressed string as input.  For internal use only.
120   explicit UniquePosition(const std::string& internal_rep);
121 
122   // Expects an uncompressed prefix and suffix as input.  The |suffix| parameter
123   // must be a suffix of |uncompressed|.  For internal use only.
124   UniquePosition(const std::string& uncompressed, const std::string& suffix);
125 
126   // Implementation of an order-preserving run-length compression scheme.
127   static std::string Compress(const std::string& input);
128   static std::string CompressImpl(const std::string& input);
129   static std::string Uncompress(const std::string& compressed);
130   static bool IsValidCompressed(const std::string& str);
131 
132   // The position value after it has been run through the custom compression
133   // algorithm.  See Compress() and Uncompress() functions above.
134   std::string compressed_;
135   bool is_valid_;
136 };
137 
138 }  // namespace syncer;
139 
140 #endif  // SYNC_INTERNAL_API_PUBLIC_BASE_UNIQUE_POSITION_H_
141