Cgu::Utf8::Reassembler Class Reference

A class for reassembling UTF-8 strings sent over pipes and sockets so they form complete valid UTF-8 characters. More...

#include <c++-gtk-utils/reassembler.h>

Public Member Functions
Cgu::SharedHandle< char * >	operator() (const char *input, size_t size)
size_t	get_stored () const
void	reset ()
	Reassembler ()

Detailed Description

A class for reassembling UTF-8 strings sent over pipes and sockets so they form complete valid UTF-8 characters.

Utf8::Reassembler is a functor class which takes in a partially formed UTF-8 string and returns a nul-terminated string comprising such of the input string (after inserting, at the beginning, any partially formed UTF-8 character which was at the end of the input string passed in previous calls to the functor) as forms complete UTF-8 characters (storing any partial character at the end for the next call to the functor). If the input string contains invalid UTF-8 after adding any stored previous part character (apart from any partially formed character at the end of the input string) then operator() will return a null Cgu::SharedHandle<char*> object (that is, Cgu::SharedHandle<char*>::get() will return 0). Such input will not be treated as invalid if it consists only of a single partly formed UTF-8 character which could be valid if further bytes were received and added to it. In that case the returned SharedHandle<char*> object will contain an allocated string of zero length, comprising only a terminating \0 character, rather than a NULL pointer.

This enables UTF-8 strings to be sent over pipes, sockets, etc and displayed in a GTK+ object at the receiving end

Note that for efficiency reasons the memory held in the returned Cgu::SharedHandle<char*> object may be greater than the length of the nul-terminated string that is contained in that memory: just let the Cgu::SharedHandle<char*> object manage the memory, and use the contents like any other nul-terminated string.

This class is not needed if std::getline(), with its default '\n' delimiter, is used to read UTF-8 characters using, say, Cgu::fdistream, because a whole '\n' delimited line of UTF-8 characters will always be complete.

This is an example of its use, reading from a pipe until it is closed by the writer and putting the received text in a GtkTextBuffer object:

using namespace Cgu;
 
GtkTextIter end;
GtkTextBuffer* text_buffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer(GTK_TEXT_VIEW(text_view));
gtk_text_buffer_get_end_iter(text_buffer, &end);
 
Utf8::Reassembler reassembler;
const int BSIZE = 1024;
char read_buffer[BSIZE];
ssize_t res;
do {
  res = ::read(fd, read_buffer, BSIZE);
  if (res > 0) {
    SharedHandle<char*> utf8(reassembler(read_buffer, res));
    if (utf8.get()) {
      gtk_text_buffer_insert(text_buffer, &end,
                             utf8.get(), std::strlen(utf8));
    }
    else std::cerr << "Invalid utf8 text sent over pipe\n";
  }
} while (res && (res != -1 || errno == EINTR));

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Reassembler()

Cgu::Utf8::Reassembler::Reassembler ( )

inline

The constructor will not throw.

Member Function Documentation

get_stored()

size_t Cgu::Utf8::Reassembler::get_stored ( ) const

inline

Gets the number of bytes of a partially formed UTF-8 character stored for the next call to operator()(). It will not throw.

Returns

The number of bytes.

operator()()

Cgu::SharedHandle<char*> Cgu::Utf8::Reassembler::operator()	(	const char *	input,
		size_t	size
	)

Takes a byte array of wholly or partly formed UTF-8 characters to be converted (after taking account of previous calls to the method) to a valid string of wholly formed characters.

Parameters

input	The input array.
size	The number of bytes in the input (not the number of UTF-8 characters).

Returns

A Cgu::SharedHandle<char*> object holding a nul-terminated string comprising such of the input (after inserting, at the beginning, any partially formed UTF-8 character which was at the end of the input passed in previous calls to the functor) as forms complete UTF-8 characters (storing any partial character at the end for the next call to the functor). If the input is invalid after such recombination, then a null Cgu::SharedHandle<char*> object is returned (that is, Cgu::SharedHandle<char*>::get() will return 0). Such input will not be treated as invalid if it consists only of a single partly formed UTF-8 character which could be valid if further bytes were received and added to it. In that case the returned Cgu::SharedHandle<char*> object will contain an allocated string of zero length, comprising only a terminating \0 character, rather than a NULL pointer.

Exceptions

std::bad_alloc

The method might throw std::bad_alloc if memory is exhausted and the system throws in that case. It will not throw any other exception.

reset()

void Cgu::Utf8::Reassembler::reset ( )

inline

Resets the Reassembler, by discarding any partially formed UTF-8 character from previous calls to operator()(). It will not throw.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• reassembler.h