src/encoding/buffer.hpp

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 * @author Alexander Afanasyev <http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/afanasyev/index.html>
 */

#ifndef NDN_ENCODING_BUFFER_HPP
#define NDN_ENCODING_BUFFER_HPP

#include "../common.hpp"

#include <vector>

namespace ndn {

/**
 * @brief General-purpose automatically managed/resized buffer
 *
 * In most respect, the Buffer class is equivalent to a `std::vector<uint8_t>`, and it in fact
 * uses the latter as a base class. In addition to that, it provides the get<T>() helper method
 * that automatically casts the returned pointer to the requested type.
 */
class Buffer : public std::vector<uint8_t>
{
public:
  using std::vector<uint8_t>::vector;

  /** @brief Creates an empty Buffer
   */
  Buffer();

  /** @brief Creates a Buffer by copying contents from a raw buffer
   *  @param buf const pointer to buffer to copy
   *  @param length length of the buffer to copy
   */
  Buffer(const void* buf, size_t length);

  /** @return pointer to the first byte of the buffer, cast to the requested type T
   */
  template<class T>
  T*
  get() noexcept
  {
    return reinterpret_cast<T*>(data());
  }

  /** @return const pointer to the first byte of the buffer, cast to the requested type T
   */
  template<class T>
  const T*
  get() const noexcept
  {
    return reinterpret_cast<const T*>(data());
  }
};

using BufferPtr = shared_ptr<Buffer>;
using ConstBufferPtr = shared_ptr<const Buffer>;

} // namespace ndn

#endif // NDN_ENCODING_BUFFER_HPP