lumiera_/src/lib/several.hpp

/*
  SEVERAL.hpp  -  abstraction providing a limited fixed number of elements

  Copyright (C)         Lumiera.org
    2008,               Hermann Vosseler <Ichthyostega@web.de>
    2024,               Hermann Vosseler <Ichthyostega@web.de>

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*/


/** @file several.hpp
 ** Abstraction interface: array-like access by subscript
 ** @todo as of 2016, this concept seems very questionable: do we _really_ want
 **       to abstract over random access, or do we _actually_ want for-iteration??
 ** @warning WIP-WIP-WIP in rework 5/2025
 ** @see several-builder.hpp
 */


#ifndef LIB_SEVERAL_H
#define LIB_SEVERAL_H


#include "lib/nocopy.hpp"
#include "lib/iter-adapter.hpp"

#include <cstddef>


namespace lib {
  
  namespace {// Storage implementation details
    
    struct Bucket
      {
        union Manager
          {
            typedef void (*Deleter) (void*, size_t);
            
            bool unmanaged :1;
            Deleter deleter;
          };
        
        Manager manager;
        size_t spread;
      };
    
    template<class I, size_t bytes>
    struct ArrayBucket
      : Bucket
      {
        alignas(I)
          std::byte storage[bytes];
      };
    
  }//(End)implementation details
  
  
  
  /************************************************//**
   * Abstraction: Fixed array of elements.
   * Typically the return type is an interface, 
   * and the Implementation wraps some datastructure
   * holding subclasses.
   * @warning in rework 5/2025
   */
  template<class I>
  class Several
    : util::MoveOnly
    {
    protected:
      size_t  size_{0};
      Bucket* data_{nullptr};
      
    public:
      
      size_t
      size()  const
        {
          UNIMPLEMENTED ("determine storage size");
        }
      
      I&
      operator[] (size_t i)
        {
          UNIMPLEMENTED ("subscript");
        }
      
      I&
      back()
        {
          UNIMPLEMENTED ("storage access");
        }
      
      using iterator = I*;
      using const_iterator = I const*;
      
      iterator begin() { UNIMPLEMENTED ("iteration"); }
      iterator end()   { UNIMPLEMENTED ("iteration"); }
      const_iterator begin() const { UNIMPLEMENTED ("iteration"); }
      const_iterator end()   const { UNIMPLEMENTED ("iteration"); }
      
      friend auto begin (Several const& svl) { return svl.begin();}
      friend auto end   (Several const& svl) { return svl.end();  }
    };
  
  
} // namespace lib
#endif