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#ifndef _CCNX_ENCODING_HELPER_H_
#define _CCNX_ENCODING_HELPER_H_

#include <sys/types.h>

#include "ns3/ccnb-parser-common.h"
#include "ns3/ptr.h"
#include "ns3/nstime.h"
#include "ns3/buffer.h"

namespace ns3 {

namespace Name{ class Components; }

class CcnxInterestHeader;
class CcnxContentObjectHeader;
  
/**
 * Helper to encode/decode ccnb formatted CCNx message
 *
 */
class CcnxEncodingHelper
{
public:
  static size_t
  Serialize (Buffer::Iterator start, const CcnxInterestHeader &interest);

  static size_t
  Serialize (Buffer::Iterator start, const CcnxContentObjectHeader &contentObject);

private:
  static size_t
  AppendBlockHeader (Buffer::Iterator start, size_t value, CcnbParser::ccn_tt block_type);

  static size_t
  AppendNumber (Buffer::Iterator start, uint32_t number);

  static size_t
  AppendCloser (Buffer::Iterator start);

  static size_t
  AppendNameComponents (Buffer::Iterator start, const Name::Components &name);

  /**
   * Append a binary timestamp as a BLOB using the ccn binary
   * Timestamp representation (12-bit fraction).
   *
   * @param start start iterator of  the buffer to append to.
   * @param time - Time object
   *
   * @returns written length
   */
  static size_t
  AppendTimestampBlob (Buffer::Iterator start, Time time);

  /**
   * Append a tagged BLOB
   *
   * This is a ccnb-encoded element with containing the BLOB as content
   *
   * @param start start iterator of  the buffer to append to.
   * @param dtag is the element's dtab
   * @param data points to the binary data
   * @param size is the size of the data, in bytes
   *
   * @returns written length
   */
  static size_t
  AppendTaggedBlob (Buffer::Iterator start, CcnbParser::ccn_dtag dtag,
                    const uint8_t *data, size_t size);
  
};

} // namespace ns3

#endif // _CCNX_ENCODING_HELPER_H_