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 * Author: Ilya Moiseenko <iliamo@cs.ucla.edu>
 */

#ifndef _NDN_NAME_COMPONENTS_H_
#define _NDN_NAME_COMPONENTS_H_

#include "ns3/simple-ref-count.h"
#include "ns3/attribute.h"
#include "ns3/attribute-helper.h"

#include <string>
#include <algorithm>
#include <list>
#include "ns3/object.h"

#include <boost/ref.hpp>

namespace ns3 {

/**
 * \ingroup ccnx
 * \brief Hierarchical CCNX name
 * A Name element represents a hierarchical name for CCNx content. 
 * It simply contains a sequence of Component elements. 
 * Each Component element contains a sequence of zero or more bytes. 
 * There are no restrictions on what byte sequences may be used.
 * The Name element in an Interest is often referred to with the term name prefix or simply prefix.
 */ 
class CcnxNameComponents : public SimpleRefCount<CcnxNameComponents>
{
public:
  /**
   * \brief Constructor 
   * Creates a prefix with zero components (can be looked as root "/")
   */
  CcnxNameComponents ();
  
  /**
   * \brief Constructor
   * Creates a prefix from a list of strings where every string represents a prefix component
   * @param[in] components A list of strings
   */
  CcnxNameComponents (const std::list<boost::reference_wrapper<const std::string> > &components);

  /**
   * \brief Generic Add method
   * Appends object of type T to the list of components 
   * @param[in] value The object to be appended
   */
  template<class T>
  inline void
  Add (const T &value);
  
  /**
   * \brief Generic constructor operator
   * The object of type T will be appended to the list of components
   */
  template<class T>
  inline CcnxNameComponents&
  operator () (const T &value);

  /**
   * \brief Get a name
   * Returns a list of components (strings)
   */
  const std::list<std::string> &
  GetComponents () const;

  /**
   * \brief Get subcomponents of the name, starting with first component
   * @param[in] num Number of components to return. Valid value is in range [1, GetComponents ().size ()]
   */
  std::list<boost::reference_wrapper<const std::string> >
  GetSubComponents (size_t num) const;
  
  /**
   * \brief Print name
   * @param[in] os Stream to print 
   */
  void Print (std::ostream &os) const;

  /**
   * \brief Returns the size of CcnxNameComponents
   */
  inline size_t
  size () const;

  /**
   * \brief Equality operator for CcnxNameComponents
   */
  inline bool
  operator== (const CcnxNameComponents &prefix) const;

  /**
   * \brief Less than operator for CcnxNameComponents
   */
  inline bool
  operator< (const CcnxNameComponents &prefix) const;
  
private:
  std::list<std::string> m_prefix;                              ///< \brief a list of strings (components)

  typedef std::list<std::string>::iterator iterator;            
  typedef std::list<std::string>::const_iterator const_iterator;
};

/**
 * \brief Print out name components separated by slashes, e.g., /first/second/third
 */
std::ostream &
operator << (std::ostream &os, const CcnxNameComponents &components);

/**
 * \brief Read components from input and add them to components. Will read input stream till eof
 * Substrings separated by slashes will become separate components
 */
std::istream &
operator >> (std::istream &is, CcnxNameComponents &components);

/**
 * \brief Returns the size of CcnxNameComponents object
 */  
size_t
CcnxNameComponents::size () const
{
  return m_prefix.size ();
}

/**
 * \brief Generic constructor operator
 * The object of type T will be appended to the list of components
 */
template<class T>
CcnxNameComponents&
CcnxNameComponents::operator () (const T &value)
{
  Add (value);
  return *this;
}

/**
 * \brief Generic Add method
 * Appends object of type T to the list of components 
 * @param[in] value The object to be appended
 */
template<class T>
void
CcnxNameComponents::Add (const T &value)
{
  std::ostringstream os;
  os << value;
  m_prefix.push_back (os.str ());
}

/**
 * \brief Equality operator for CcnxNameComponents
 */
bool
CcnxNameComponents::operator== (const CcnxNameComponents &prefix) const
{
  if (m_prefix.size () != prefix.m_prefix.size ())
    return false;
  
  return std::equal (m_prefix.begin (), m_prefix.end (), prefix.m_prefix.begin ());
}

/**
 * \brief Less than operator for CcnxNameComponents
 */
bool
CcnxNameComponents::operator< (const CcnxNameComponents &prefix) const
{
  return std::lexicographical_compare (m_prefix.begin (), m_prefix.end (),
                                       prefix.m_prefix.begin (), prefix.m_prefix.end ());
}

    
/**
* \class ns3::ComponentsValue
* \brief hold objects of type ns3:CcnxNameComponents
*/
ATTRIBUTE_HELPER_HEADER (CcnxNameComponents);
} // namespace ns3

#endif // _NDN_NAME_COMPONENTS_H_