gecko-dev/xpcom/string/public/nsReadableUtils.h

/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
/* ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK *****
 * Version: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
 *
 * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version
 * 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
 *
 * Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 * for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the
 * License.
 *
 * The Original Code is mozilla.org code.
 *
 * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is
 * Netscape Communications Corporation.
 * Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 2000
 * the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Contributor(s):
 *   Scott Collins <scc@mozilla.org> (original author)
 *   Johnny Stenbeck <jst@netscape.com>
 *
 * Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of
 * either of the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (the "GPL"),
 * or the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later (the "LGPL"),
 * in which case the provisions of the GPL or the LGPL are applicable instead
 * of those above. If you wish to allow use of your version of this file only
 * under the terms of either the GPL or the LGPL, and not to allow others to
 * use your version of this file under the terms of the MPL, indicate your
 * decision by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice
 * and other provisions required by the GPL or the LGPL. If you do not delete
 * the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file under
 * the terms of any one of the MPL, the GPL or the LGPL.
 *
 * ***** END LICENSE BLOCK ***** */

#ifndef nsReadableUtils_h___
#define nsReadableUtils_h___

  /**
   * I guess all the routines in this file are all mis-named.
   * According to our conventions, they should be |NS_xxx|.
   */

#ifndef nsAString_h___
#include "nsAString.h"
#endif

inline size_t Distance( const nsReadingIterator<PRUnichar>& start, const nsReadingIterator<PRUnichar>& end )
  {
    return end.get() - start.get();
  }
inline size_t Distance( const nsReadingIterator<char>& start, const nsReadingIterator<char>& end )
  {
    return end.get() - start.get();
  }

NS_COM void LossyCopyUTF16toASCII( const nsAString& aSource, nsACString& aDest );
NS_COM void CopyASCIItoUTF16( const nsACString& aSource, nsAString& aDest );

NS_COM void LossyCopyUTF16toASCII( const PRUnichar* aSource, nsACString& aDest );
NS_COM void CopyASCIItoUTF16( const char* aSource, nsAString& aDest );

NS_COM void CopyUTF16toUTF8( const nsAString& aSource, nsACString& aDest );
NS_COM void CopyUTF8toUTF16( const nsACString& aSource, nsAString& aDest );

NS_COM void CopyUTF16toUTF8( const PRUnichar* aSource, nsACString& aDest );
NS_COM void CopyUTF8toUTF16( const char* aSource, nsAString& aDest );

NS_COM void LossyAppendUTF16toASCII( const nsAString& aSource, nsACString& aDest );
NS_COM void AppendASCIItoUTF16( const nsACString& aSource, nsAString& aDest );

NS_COM void LossyAppendUTF16toASCII( const PRUnichar* aSource, nsACString& aDest );
NS_COM void AppendASCIItoUTF16( const char* aSource, nsAString& aDest );

NS_COM void AppendUTF16toUTF8( const nsAString& aSource, nsACString& aDest );
NS_COM void AppendUTF8toUTF16( const nsACString& aSource, nsAString& aDest );

NS_COM void AppendUTF16toUTF8( const PRUnichar* aSource, nsACString& aDest );
NS_COM void AppendUTF8toUTF16( const char* aSource, nsAString& aDest );

// Backward compatibility
inline 
NS_COM void CopyUCS2toASCII( const nsAString& aSource, nsACString& aDest )
{ LossyCopyUTF16toASCII(aSource, aDest); }
inline 
NS_COM void CopyASCIItoUCS2( const nsACString& aSource, nsAString& aDest )
{ CopyASCIItoUTF16(aSource, aDest); }

  /**
   * Returns a new |char| buffer containing a zero-terminated copy of |aSource|.
   *
   * Allocates and returns a new |char| buffer which you must free with |nsMemory::Free|.
   * Performs a lossy encoding conversion by chopping 16-bit wide characters down to 8-bits wide while copying |aSource| to your new buffer.
   * This conversion is not well defined; but it reproduces legacy string behavior.
   * The new buffer is zero-terminated, but that may not help you if |aSource| contains embedded nulls.
   *
   * @param aSource a 16-bit wide string
   * @return a new |char| buffer you must free with |nsMemory::Free|.
   */
NS_COM char* ToNewCString( const nsAString& aSource );


  /**
   * Returns a new |char| buffer containing a zero-terminated copy of |aSource|.
   *
   * Allocates and returns a new |char| buffer which you must free with |nsMemory::Free|.
   * The new buffer is zero-terminated, but that may not help you if |aSource| contains embedded nulls.
   *
   * @param aSource an 8-bit wide string
   * @return a new |char| buffer you must free with |nsMemory::Free|.
   */
NS_COM char* ToNewCString( const nsACString& aSource );

  /**
   * Returns a new |char| buffer containing a zero-terminated copy of |aSource|.
   *
   * Allocates and returns a new |char| buffer which you must free with 
   * |nsMemory::Free|.
   * Performs an encoding conversion from a UTF-16 string to a UTF-8 string
   * copying |aSource| to your new buffer.
   * The new buffer is zero-terminated, but that may not help you if |aSource| 
   * contains embedded nulls.
   *
   * @param aSource a UTF-16 string (made of PRUnichar's)
   * @return a new |char| buffer you must free with |nsMemory::Free|.
   */

NS_COM char* ToNewUTF8String( const nsAString& aSource );


  /**
   * Returns a new |PRUnichar| buffer containing a zero-terminated copy of 
   * |aSource|.
   *
   * Allocates and returns a new |PRUnichar| buffer which you must free with 
   * |nsMemory::Free|.
   * The new buffer is zero-terminated, but that may not help you if |aSource| 
   * contains embedded nulls.
   *
   * @param aSource a UTF-16 string
   * @return a new |PRUnichar| buffer you must free with |nsMemory::Free|.
   */
NS_COM PRUnichar* ToNewUnicode( const nsAString& aSource );


  /**
   * Returns a new |PRUnichar| buffer containing a zero-terminated copy of |aSource|.
   *
   * Allocates and returns a new |PRUnichar| buffer which you must free with |nsMemory::Free|.
   * Performs an encoding conversion by 0-padding 8-bit wide characters up to 16-bits wide while copying |aSource| to your new buffer.
   * This conversion is not well defined; but it reproduces legacy string behavior.
   * The new buffer is zero-terminated, but that may not help you if |aSource| contains embedded nulls.
   *
   * @param aSource an 8-bit wide string (a C-string, NOT UTF-8)
   * @return a new |PRUnichar| buffer you must free with |nsMemory::Free|.
   */
NS_COM PRUnichar* ToNewUnicode( const nsACString& aSource );

  /**
   * Returns a new |PRUnichar| buffer containing a zero-terminated copy
   * of |aSource|.
   *
   * Allocates and returns a new |char| buffer which you must free with
   * |nsMemory::Free|.  Performs an encoding conversion from UTF-8 to UTF-16 
   * while copying |aSource| to your new buffer.  This conversion is well defined
   * for a valid UTF-8 string.  The new buffer is zero-terminated, but that 
   * may not help you if |aSource| contains embedded nulls.
   *
   * @param aSource an 8-bit wide string, UTF-8 encoded
   * @return a new |PRUnichar| buffer you must free with |nsMemory::Free|.
   *         (UTF-16 encoded)
   */
NS_COM PRUnichar* UTF8ToNewUnicode( const nsACString& aSource );

  /**
   * Copies |aLength| 16-bit code units from the start of |aSource| to the
   * |PRUnichar| buffer |aDest|.
   *
   * After this operation |aDest| is not null terminated.
   *
   * @param aSource a UTF-16 string
   * @param aSrcOffset start offset in the source string
   * @param aDest a |PRUnichar| buffer
   * @param aLength the number of 16-bit code units to copy
   * @return pointer to destination buffer - identical to |aDest|
   */
NS_COM PRUnichar* CopyUnicodeTo( const nsAString& aSource,
                                 PRUint32 aSrcOffset,
                                 PRUnichar* aDest,
                                 PRUint32 aLength );


  /**
   * Copies 16-bit characters between iterators |aSrcStart| and
   * |aSrcEnd| to the writable string |aDest|. Similar to the
   * |nsString::Mid| method.
   *
   * After this operation |aDest| is not null terminated.
   *
   * @param aSrcStart start source iterator
   * @param aSrcEnd end source iterator
   * @param aDest destination for the copy
   */
NS_COM void CopyUnicodeTo( const nsAString::const_iterator& aSrcStart,
                           const nsAString::const_iterator& aSrcEnd,
                           nsAString& aDest );

  /**
   * Appends 16-bit characters between iterators |aSrcStart| and
   * |aSrcEnd| to the writable string |aDest|. 
   *
   * After this operation |aDest| is not null terminated.
   *
   * @param aSrcStart start source iterator
   * @param aSrcEnd end source iterator
   * @param aDest destination for the copy
   */
NS_COM void AppendUnicodeTo( const nsAString::const_iterator& aSrcStart,
                             const nsAString::const_iterator& aSrcEnd,
                             nsAString& aDest );

  /**
   * Returns |PR_TRUE| if |aString| contains only ASCII characters, that is, characters in the range (0x00, 0x7F).
   *
   * @param aString a 16-bit wide string to scan
   */
NS_COM PRBool IsASCII( const nsAString& aString );

  /**
   * Returns |PR_TRUE| if |aString| contains only ASCII characters, that is, characters in the range (0x00, 0x7F).
   *
   * @param aString a 8-bit wide string to scan
   */
NS_COM PRBool IsASCII( const nsACString& aString );


  /**
   * Returns |PR_TRUE| if |aString| is a valid UTF-8 string.
   * XXX This is not bullet-proof and nor an all-purpose UTF-8 validator. 
   * It is mainly written to replace and roughly equivalent to
   *
   *    str.Equals(NS_ConvertUTF16toUTF8(NS_ConvertUTF8toUTF16(str)))
   *
   * (see bug 191541)
   * As such,  it does not check for non-UTF-8 7bit encodings such as 
   * ISO-2022-JP and HZ. However, it filters out  UTF-8 representation
   * of surrogate codepoints and non-characters ( 0xFFFE and 0xFFFF
   * in planes 0 through 16.) as well as overlong UTF-8 sequences. 
   * Also note that it regards UTF-8 sequences corresponding to 
   * codepoints above 0x10FFFF as invalid in accordance with 
   * http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-yergeau-rfc2279bis-04.txt
   *
   * @param aString an 8-bit wide string to scan
   */
NS_COM PRBool IsUTF8( const nsACString& aString );


  /**
   * Converts case in place in the argument string.
   */
NS_COM void ToUpperCase( nsACString& );

NS_COM void ToLowerCase( nsACString& );

NS_COM void ToUpperCase( nsCSubstring& );

NS_COM void ToLowerCase( nsCSubstring& );

  /**
   * Converts case from string aSource to aDest.
   */
NS_COM void ToUpperCase( const nsACString& aSource, nsACString& aDest );

NS_COM void ToLowerCase( const nsACString& aSource, nsACString& aDest );

  /**
   * Finds the leftmost occurance of |aPattern|, if any in the range |aSearchStart|..|aSearchEnd|.
   *
   * Returns |PR_TRUE| if a match was found, and adjusts |aSearchStart| and |aSearchEnd| to
   * point to the match.  If no match was found, returns |PR_FALSE| and makes |aSearchStart == aSearchEnd|.
   *
   * Currently, this is equivalent to the O(m*n) implementation previously on |ns[C]String|.
   * If we need something faster, then we can implement that later.
   */

NS_COM PRBool FindInReadable( const nsAString& aPattern, nsAString::const_iterator&, nsAString::const_iterator&, const nsStringComparator& = nsDefaultStringComparator() );
NS_COM PRBool FindInReadable( const nsACString& aPattern, nsACString::const_iterator&, nsACString::const_iterator&, const nsCStringComparator& = nsDefaultCStringComparator() );

/* sometimes we don't care about where the string was, just that we
 * found it or not */
inline PRBool FindInReadable( const nsAString& aPattern, const nsAString& aSource, const nsStringComparator& compare = nsDefaultStringComparator() )
{
  nsAString::const_iterator start, end;
  aSource.BeginReading(start);
  aSource.EndReading(end);
  return FindInReadable(aPattern, start, end, compare);
}

inline PRBool FindInReadable( const nsACString& aPattern, const nsACString& aSource, const nsCStringComparator& compare = nsDefaultCStringComparator() )
{
  nsACString::const_iterator start, end;
  aSource.BeginReading(start);
  aSource.EndReading(end);
  return FindInReadable(aPattern, start, end, compare);
}


NS_COM PRBool CaseInsensitiveFindInReadable( const nsACString& aPattern, nsACString::const_iterator&, nsACString::const_iterator& );

  /**
   * Finds the rightmost occurance of |aPattern| 
   * Returns |PR_TRUE| if a match was found, and adjusts |aSearchStart| and |aSearchEnd| to
   * point to the match.  If no match was found, returns |PR_FALSE| and makes |aSearchStart == aSearchEnd|.
   *
   * Currently, this is equivalent to the O(m*n) implementation previously on |ns[C]String|.
   * If we need something faster, then we can implement that later.
   */
NS_COM PRBool RFindInReadable( const nsAString& aPattern, nsAString::const_iterator&, nsAString::const_iterator&, const nsStringComparator& = nsDefaultStringComparator() );
NS_COM PRBool RFindInReadable( const nsACString& aPattern, nsACString::const_iterator&, nsACString::const_iterator&, const nsCStringComparator& = nsDefaultCStringComparator() );

   /**
   * Finds the leftmost occurance of |aChar|, if any in the range 
   * |aSearchStart|..|aSearchEnd|.
   *
   * Returns |PR_TRUE| if a match was found, and adjusts |aSearchStart| to
   * point to the match.  If no match was found, returns |PR_FALSE| and 
   * makes |aSearchStart == aSearchEnd|.
   */
NS_COM PRBool FindCharInReadable( PRUnichar aChar, nsAString::const_iterator& aSearchStart, const nsAString::const_iterator& aSearchEnd );
NS_COM PRBool FindCharInReadable( char aChar, nsACString::const_iterator& aSearchStart, const nsACString::const_iterator& aSearchEnd );

    /**
    * Finds the number of occurences of |aChar| in the string |aStr|
    */
NS_COM PRUint32 CountCharInReadable( const nsAString& aStr,
                                     PRUnichar aChar );
NS_COM PRUint32 CountCharInReadable( const nsACString& aStr,
                                     char aChar );

NS_COM PRBool
StringBeginsWith( const nsAString& aSource, const nsAString& aSubstring,
                  const nsStringComparator& aComparator =
                                              nsDefaultStringComparator() );
NS_COM PRBool
StringBeginsWith( const nsACString& aSource, const nsACString& aSubstring,
                  const nsCStringComparator& aComparator =
                                               nsDefaultCStringComparator() );
NS_COM PRBool
StringEndsWith( const nsAString& aSource, const nsAString& aSubstring,
                const nsStringComparator& aComparator =
                                            nsDefaultStringComparator() );
NS_COM PRBool
StringEndsWith( const nsACString& aSource, const nsACString& aSubstring,
                const nsCStringComparator& aComparator =
                                             nsDefaultCStringComparator() );

NS_COM PRUint32 HashString( const nsAString& aStr );
NS_COM PRUint32 HashString( const nsACString& aStr );

NS_COM const nsAFlatString& EmptyString();
NS_COM const nsAFlatCString& EmptyCString();


#endif // !defined(nsReadableUtils_h___)