hylarana_common/strings.rs
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use std::{
ffi::{c_char, CStr, CString},
str::Utf8Error,
};
use thiserror::Error;
#[derive(Debug, Error)]
pub enum StringError {
#[error(transparent)]
Utf8Error(#[from] Utf8Error),
#[error("the string ptr is null")]
Null,
}
/// A type representing an owned, C-compatible, nul-terminated string with no
/// nul bytes in the middle.
///
/// This type serves the purpose of being able to safely generate a C-compatible
/// string from a Rust byte slice or vector. An instance of this type is a
/// static guarantee that the underlying bytes contain no interior 0 bytes (“nul
/// characters”) and that the final byte is 0 (“nul terminator”).
///
/// CString is to &CStr as String is to &str: the former in each pair are owned
/// strings; the latter are borrowed references.
pub struct Strings {
ptr: *const c_char,
drop: bool,
}
impl Drop for Strings {
fn drop(&mut self) {
if self.drop && !self.ptr.is_null() {
drop(unsafe { CString::from_raw(self.ptr as *mut c_char) })
}
}
}
impl From<*const c_char> for Strings {
fn from(ptr: *const c_char) -> Self {
Self { drop: false, ptr }
}
}
impl From<&str> for Strings {
fn from(value: &str) -> Self {
Self {
ptr: CString::new(value).unwrap().into_raw(),
drop: true,
}
}
}
impl From<String> for Strings {
fn from(value: String) -> Self {
Self {
ptr: CString::new(value).unwrap().into_raw(),
drop: true,
}
}
}
impl Strings {
/// Yields a &str slice if the CStr contains valid UTF-8.
///
/// If the contents of the CStr are valid UTF-8 data, this function will
/// return the corresponding &str slice. Otherwise, it will return an error
/// with details of where UTF-8 validation failed.
pub fn to_string(&self) -> Result<String, StringError> {
if !self.ptr.is_null() {
Ok(unsafe { CStr::from_ptr(self.ptr) }
.to_str()
.map(|s| s.to_string())?)
} else {
Err(StringError::Null)
}
}
/// Returns the inner pointer to this C string.
///
///The returned pointer will be valid for as long as self is, and points to
/// a contiguous region of memory terminated with a 0 byte to represent the
/// end of the string.
///
///The type of the returned pointer is *const c_char, and whether it’s an
/// alias for *const i8 or *const u8 is platform-specific.
///
/// ### WARNING
///
///The returned pointer is read-only; writing to it (including passing it
/// to C code that writes to it) causes undefined behavior.
pub fn as_ptr(&self) -> *const c_char {
self.ptr
}
}
#[macro_export]
macro_rules! c_str {
($s:expr) => {
hylarana_common::strings::Strings::from($s).as_ptr()
};
}