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+/** -*- Mode:C++; c-file-style:"gnu"; indent-tabs-mode:nil -*- */
+/* 
+ * Copyright (c) 2013, Regents of the University of California
+ *                     Alexander Afanasyev
+ * 
+ * GNU 3.0 license, See the LICENSE file for more information
+ * 
+ * Author: Alexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu>
+ */
+
+#include "wire-ndnsim.h"
+#include <boost/foreach.hpp>
+
+NDN_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
+
+namespace wire {
+
+//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+size_t
+NdnSim::SerializeName (Buffer::Iterator &i, const Name &name)
+{
+  Buffer::Iterator start = i;
+
+  i.WriteU16 (static_cast<uint16_t> (SerializedSizeName (name)-2));
+
+  for (std::list<std::string>::const_iterator item = name.begin ();
+       item != name.end ();
+       item++)
+    {
+      i.WriteU16 (static_cast<uint16_t> (item->size ()));
+      i.Write (reinterpret_cast<const uint8_t*> (item->c_str ()), item->size ());
+    }
+
+  return i.GetDistanceFrom (start);
+}
+
+size_t
+NdnSim::SerializedSizeName (const Name &name)
+{
+  size_t nameSerializedSize = 2;
+
+  for (std::list<std::string>::const_iterator i = name.begin ();
+       i != name.end ();
+       i++)
+    {
+      nameSerializedSize += 2 + i->size ();
+    }
+  NS_ASSERT_MSG (nameSerializedSize < 30000, "Name is too long (> 30kbytes)");
+
+  return nameSerializedSize;
+}
+
+Ptr<Name>
+NdnSim::DeserializeName (Buffer::Iterator &i)
+{
+  Ptr<Name> name = Create<Name> ();
+
+  uint16_t nameLength = i.ReadU16 ();
+  while (nameLength > 0)
+    {
+      uint16_t length = i.ReadU16 ();
+      nameLength = nameLength - 2 - length;
+
+      uint8_t tmp[length];
+      i.Read (tmp, length);
+
+      name->Add (std::string (reinterpret_cast<const char*> (tmp), length));
+    }
+
+  return name;
+}
+
+} // wire
+
+NDN_NAMESPACE_END