gecko-dev/content/base/src/nsAttrValueOrString.h

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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file,
* You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
/*
* A wrapper to contain either an nsAttrValue or an nsAString. This is useful
* because constructing an nsAttrValue from an nsAString can be expensive when
* the buffer of the string is not shared.
*
* Since a raw pointer to the passed-in string is kept, this class should only
* be used on the stack.
*/
#ifndef nsAttrValueOrString_h___
#define nsAttrValueOrString_h___
#include "nsString.h"
#include "nsAttrValue.h"
class MOZ_STACK_CLASS nsAttrValueOrString
{
public:
nsAttrValueOrString(const nsAString& aValue)
: mAttrValue(nullptr)
, mStringPtr(&aValue)
, mCheapString(nullptr)
{ }
nsAttrValueOrString(const nsAttrValue& aValue)
: mAttrValue(&aValue)
, mStringPtr(nullptr)
, mCheapString(nullptr)
{ }
/**
* Returns a reference to the string value of the contents of this object.
*
* When this object points to a string or an nsAttrValue of string or atom
* type this should be fairly cheap. Other nsAttrValue types will be
* serialized the first time this is called and cached from thereon.
*/
const nsAString& String() const;
/**
* Compares the string representation of this object with the string
* representation of an nsAttrValue.
*/
bool EqualsAsStrings(const nsAttrValue& aOther) const
{
if (mStringPtr) {
return aOther.Equals(*mStringPtr, eCaseMatters);
}
return aOther.EqualsAsStrings(*mAttrValue);
}
protected:
const nsAttrValue* mAttrValue;
mutable const nsAString* mStringPtr;
mutable nsCheapString mCheapString;
};
#endif // nsAttrValueOrString_h___