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/* nsStringFragment.h --- machinery that makes string iterators work */

#ifndef nsStringFragment_h___
#define nsStringFragment_h___



  /**
   * An |nsFragmentRequest| is used to tell |GetReadableFragment| and
   * |GetWritableFragment| what to do.
   *
   * @see GetReadableFragment
   */

enum nsFragmentRequest { kPrevFragment, kFirstFragment, kLastFragment, kNextFragment, kFragmentAt };


  /**
   * A |nsReadableFragment| provides |const| access to a contiguous hunk of
   * string of homogenous units, e.g., bytes (|char|).  This doesn't mean it
   * represents a flat hunk.  It could be a variable length encoding, for
   * instance UTF-8.  And the fragment itself need not be zero-terminated.
   *
   * An |nsReadableFragment| is the underlying machinery that lets
   * |nsReadingIterator|s work.
   *
   * @see nsReadingIterator
   */

template <class CharT>
struct nsReadableFragment
  {
    const CharT*  mStart;
    const CharT*  mEnd;
    const void*   mFragmentIdentifier;

    nsReadableFragment()
        : mStart(0), mEnd(0), mFragmentIdentifier(0)
      {
        // nothing else to do here
      }
  };


  /**
   * A |nsWritableFragment| provides non-|const| access to a contiguous hunk of
   * string of homogenous units, e.g., bytes (|char|).  This doesn't mean it
   * represents a flat hunk.  It could be a variable length encoding, for
   * instance UTF-8.  And the fragment itself need not be zero-terminated.
   *
   * An |nsWritableFragment| is the underlying machinery that lets
   * |nsWritingIterator|s work.
   *
   * @see nsWritingIterator
   */

template <class CharT>
struct nsWritableFragment
  {
    CharT*    mStart;
    CharT*    mEnd;
    void*     mFragmentIdentifier;

    nsWritableFragment()
        : mStart(0), mEnd(0), mFragmentIdentifier(0)
      {
        // nothing else to do here
      }
  };

#endif /* !defined(nsStringFragment_h___) */