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/* EINA - EFL data type library
 * Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Carsten Haitzler, Jorge Luis Zapata Muga, Cedric Bail
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License along with this library;
 * if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 *
 * This file incorporates work covered by the following copyright and
 * permission notice:
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Wehrfritz
 *
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 */

#ifndef EINA_USTRINGSHARE_H_
#define EINA_USTRINGSHARE_H_

#include "eina_types.h"
#include "eina_unicode.h"

/**
 * @addtogroup Eina_UStringshare_Group Unicode Stringshare
 *
 * These functions allow you to store one copy of a string, and use it
 * throughout your program.
 *
 * This is a method to reduce the number of duplicated strings kept in
 * memory. It's pretty common for the same strings to be dynamically
 * allocated repeatedly between applications and libraries, especially in
 * circumstances where you could have multiple copies of a structure that
 * allocates the string. So rather than duplicating and freeing these
 * strings, you request a read-only pointer to an existing string and
 * only incur the overhead of a hash lookup.
 *
 * It sounds like micro-optimizing, but profiling has shown this can have
 * a significant impact as you scale the number of copies up. It improves
 * string creation/destruction speed, reduces memory use and decreases
 * memory fragmentation, so a win all-around.
 *
 * For more information, you can look at the @ref tutorial_ustringshare_page.
 */

/**
 * @addtogroup Eina_Data_Types_Group Data Types
 *
 * @{
 */

/**
 * @defgroup Eina_UStringshare_Group Unicode Stringshare
 *
 * @{
 */


/**
 * @brief Retrieve an instance of a string for use in a program.
 *
 * @param   str The string to retrieve an instance of.
 * @param   slen The string size (<= strlen(str)).
 * @return  A pointer to an instance of the string on success.
 *          @c NULL on failure.
 *
 * This function retrieves an instance of @p str. If @p str is
 * @c NULL, then @c NULL is returned. If @p str is already stored, it
 * is just returned and its reference counter is increased. Otherwise
 * it is added to the strings to be searched and a duplicated string
 * of @p str is returned.
 *
 * This function does not check string size, but uses the
 * exact given size. This can be used to share_common part of a larger
 * buffer or substring.
 *
 * @see eina_ustringshare_add()
 */
EAPI const Eina_Unicode *eina_ustringshare_add_length(const Eina_Unicode *str, unsigned int slen) EINA_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;

/**
 * @brief Retrieve an instance of a string for use in a program.
 *
 * @param   str The NULL-terminated string to retrieve an instance of.
 * @return  A pointer to an instance of the string on success.
 *          @c NULL on failure.
 *
 * This function retrieves an instance of @p str. If @p str is
 * @c NULL, then @c NULL is returned. If @p str is already stored, it
 * is just returned and its reference counter is increased. Otherwise
 * it is added to the strings to be searched and a duplicated string
 * of @p str is returned.
 *
 * The string @p str must be NULL-terminated ('@\0') and its full
 * length will be used. To use part of the string or non-null
 * terminated, use eina_stringshare_add_length() instead.
 *
 * @see eina_ustringshare_add_length()
 */
EAPI const Eina_Unicode *eina_ustringshare_add(const Eina_Unicode *str) EINA_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;

/**
 * Increment references of the given shared string.
 *
 * @param str The shared string.
 * @return    A pointer to an instance of the string on success.
 *            @c NULL on failure.
 *
 * This is similar to eina_share_common_add(), but it's faster since it will
 * avoid lookups if possible, but on the down side it requires the parameter
 * to be shared before, in other words, it must be the return of a previous
 * eina_ustringshare_add().
 *
 * There is no unref since this is the work of eina_ustringshare_del().
 */
EAPI const Eina_Unicode *eina_ustringshare_ref(const Eina_Unicode *str);

/**
 * @brief Note that the given string has lost an instance.
 *
 * @param str string The given string.
 *
 * This function decreases the reference counter associated to @p str
 * if it exists. If that counter reaches 0, the memory associated to
 * @p str is freed. If @p str is @c NULL, the function returns
 * immediately.
 *
 * Note that if the given pointer is not shared or @c NULL, bad things
 * will happen, likely a segmentation fault.
 */
EAPI void                eina_ustringshare_del(const Eina_Unicode *str);

/**
 * @brief Note that the given string @b must be shared.
 *
 * @param str the shared string to know the length. It is safe to
 *        give @c NULL, in that case @c -1 is returned.
 *
 * This function is a cheap way to known the length of a shared
 * string. Note that if the given pointer is not shared, bad
 * things will happen, likely a segmentation fault. If in doubt, try
 * strlen().
 */
EAPI int                 eina_ustringshare_strlen(const Eina_Unicode *str) EINA_PURE EINA_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;

/**
 * @brief Dump the contents of the share_common.
 *
 * This function dumps all strings in the share_common to stdout with a
 * DDD: prefix per line and a memory usage summary.
 */
EAPI void                eina_ustringshare_dump(void);

static inline Eina_Bool  eina_ustringshare_replace(const Eina_Unicode **p_str, const Eina_Unicode *news) EINA_ARG_NONNULL(1);
static inline Eina_Bool  eina_ustringshare_replace_length(const Eina_Unicode **p_str, const Eina_Unicode *news, unsigned int slen) EINA_ARG_NONNULL(1);

#include "eina_inline_ustringshare.x"

/**
 * @}
 */

/**
 * @}
 */

#endif /* EINA_STRINGSHARE_H_ */