/* UTIL.hpp - collection of small helper functions used "everywhere" Copyright (C) Lumiera.org 2008, Hermann Vosseler This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ /** @file lib/util.hpp ** Tiny helper functions and shortcuts to be used _everywhere_ ** Consider this header to be effectively included in almost every translation unit. ** @remark The motivation of using these helpers is conciseness and uniformity of expression. ** There are several extensions and not-so-frequently used supplements packaged into ** separate headers. ** @warning be sure to understand the ramifications of including _anything_ here... ** @see util-coll.hpp ** @see util-foreach.hpp ** @see util-quant.hpp */ #ifndef LIB_UTIL_H #define LIB_UTIL_H #include "include/limits.hpp" #include "lib/hash-standard.hpp" #include namespace std {// forward declarations to avoid pervasive includes template class allocator; template class set; template IT find (IT, IT, V const&); template IT remove (IT, IT, V const&); } const char* cStr (std::string const&); namespace util { using std::string; using CStr = const char*; template inline int constexpr sgn (NUM n) { return (n==0)? 0 :((n<0)? -1:+1 ); } template inline N1 constexpr min (N1 n1, N2 n2) { return n2 < n1? N1(n2) : n1; } template inline N1 constexpr max (N1 n1, N2 n2) { return n1 < n2? N1(n2) : n1; } /** cut a numeric value to be >=0 */ template inline NUM constexpr noneg (NUM val) { return (0 inline NUM constexpr limited (NB lowerBound, NUM val, NB upperBound) { return min ( max (val, lowerBound) , upperBound); } template inline bool constexpr isLimited (NB lowerBound, NUM val, NB upperBound) { return lowerBound <= val and val <= upperBound; } /** positive integral number from textual representation * @return always a number, 0 in case of unparseable text, * limited to 0 <= num <= LUMIERA_MAX_ORDINAL_NUMBER */ inline uint uNum (CStr charPtr) { if (!charPtr) return 0; int parsedNumber (std::atoi (charPtr)); return limited (0, parsedNumber, LUMIERA_MAX_ORDINAL_NUMBER); } inline int sNum (CStr charPtr) { if (!charPtr) return 0; int parsedNumber (std::atoi (charPtr)); return limited (-LUMIERA_MAX_ORDINAL_NUMBER, parsedNumber, LUMIERA_MAX_ORDINAL_NUMBER); } template inline uint uNum (OBJ const& spec) { return uNum (cStr(spec)); } template inline int sNum (OBJ const& spec) { return sNum (cStr(spec)); } /* ======== generic empty check ========= */ /** a family of util functions providing a "no value whatsoever" test. Works on strings and all STL containers, includes NULL test for pointers */ template inline bool isnil (const CONT& container) { return container.empty(); } template inline bool isnil (const CONT* pContainer) { return !pContainer or pContainer->empty(); } template inline bool isnil (CONT* pContainer) { return !pContainer or pContainer->empty(); } inline bool isnil (CStr charPtr) { return !charPtr or !(*charPtr); } /** check if string starts with a given prefix */ inline bool startsWith (string const& str, string const& prefix) { return 0 == str.rfind (prefix, 0); } inline bool startsWith (string const& str, CStr prefix) { return 0 == str.rfind (prefix, 0); } /** check if string ends with the given suffix */ inline bool endsWith (string const& str, string const& suffix) { size_t l = suffix.length(); if (l > str.length()) return false; size_t pos = str.length() - l; return pos == str.find (suffix, pos); } inline bool endsWith (string const& str, CStr suffix) { return endsWith (str, string(suffix)); } inline void removePrefix (string& str, string const& prefix) { if (not startsWith (str,prefix)) return; str = str.substr (prefix.length()); } inline void removeSuffix (string& str, string const& suffix) { if (not endsWith (str,suffix)) return; str.resize(str.length() - suffix.length()); } /** shortcut for containment test on a map */ template inline bool contains (MAP& map, typename MAP::key_type const& key) { return map.find(key) != map.end(); } /** shortcut for set value containment test */ template inline bool contains (std::set const& set, T const& val) { return set.end() != set.find (val); } /** shortcut for string value containment test */ template inline bool contains (std::string const& str, const T& val) { return str.find (val) != std::string::npos; } /** shortcut for brute-force containment test * in any sequential container */ template inline bool contains (SEQ const& cont, typename SEQ::const_reference val) { typename SEQ::const_iterator begin = cont.begin(); typename SEQ::const_iterator end = cont.end(); return end != std::find(begin,end, val); } /** use (and exhaust) a »Lumiera Forward Iterator« for linear search */ template inline bool linearSearch (IT iter, typename IT::value_type const& val) { IT end{}; return end != std::find (std::move (iter), end, val); } /** fetch value from a Map, or return a default if not found */ template inline typename MAP::mapped_type getValue_or_default (MAP& map, typename MAP::key_type const& key , typename MAP::mapped_type defaultVal) { typename MAP::const_iterator pos = map.find (key); if (pos != map.end()) return pos->second; else return defaultVal; } /** expose a reference to a map entry, with fall-back to some default object * @note exposing a const reference; especially the default needs to reside * somewhere at a safe storage location. * @see lib::NullValue */ template inline typename MAP::mapped_type const & access_or_default (MAP& map, typename MAP::key_type const& key , typename MAP::mapped_type const& refDefault) { typename MAP::const_iterator pos = map.find (key); if (pos != map.end()) return pos->second; else return refDefault; } /** shortcut for removing all copies of an Element * in any sequential collection */ template inline typename SEQ::iterator removeall (SEQ& coll, typename SEQ::value_type const& val) { typename SEQ::iterator collEnd = coll.end(); return coll.erase (std::remove (coll.begin(), collEnd, val), collEnd ); } /** remove all elements fulfilling a given predicate * from a (sorted) set. * @return true if anything has been removed. */ template bool remove_if (SET& set, FUN test) { typedef typename SET::iterator Itor; bool found = false; Itor end = set.end(); Itor begin = set.begin(); Itor pos = begin; while (pos!=end) { if (not test(*pos)) ++pos; else { found = true; if (pos==begin) { set.erase(pos); pos = begin = set.begin(); } else { set.erase(pos--); ++pos; } end = set.end(); } } return found; } /** shortcut to save some typing when having to define * const and non-const variants of member functions */ template inline OBJ* unConst (const OBJ* o) { return const_cast (o); } template inline OBJ& unConst (OBJ const& ro) { return const_cast (ro); } /** compare plain object identity, * bypassing any custom comparison operators. */ template inline bool isSameObject (A const& a, B const& b) { return static_cast (std::addressof(a)) == static_cast (std::addressof(b)); } /** extract address but strip any type info */ template inline const void* getAddr (X& x) { return static_cast (std::addressof(x)); } template inline const void* getAddr (X* x) { return static_cast (x); } /** the addressable memory »slot« — platform dependent */ template inline size_t slotNr (X const& x) { return reinterpret_cast (std::addressof(x)) / sizeof(size_t); } template inline size_t slotNr (X const* x) { return reinterpret_cast (x) / sizeof(size_t);; } /** determine heuristically if two objects * are located „close to each other“ in memory. * @remark can be used to find out about heap vs. stack allocation */ template inline bool isCloseBy (A&& a, B&& b, size_t consideredNearby =50) { size_t loc1 = slotNr (std::forward (a)); size_t loc2 = slotNr (std::forward (b)); size_t dist = loc2 > loc1? loc2-loc1:loc1-loc2; return dist < consideredNearby; } /** produce an identifier based on the given string. * remove non-standard-chars, reduce sequences of punctuation * and whitespace to single underscores. The sanitised string * will start with an alphanumeric character. * * @par Example Conversions \verbatim "Word" --> "Word" "a Sentence" --> "a_Sentence" "trailing Withespace \t \n" --> "trailing_Withespace" "with a lot \nof Whitespace" --> "with_a_lot_of_Whitespace" "@with\".\'much ($punctuation)[]!" --> "@with.much_($punctuation)" "§&Ω%€ leading garbage" --> "leading_garbage" "mixed Ω garbage" --> "mixed_garbage" "Bääääh!!" --> "Bh" \endverbatim * @see \ref UtilSanitizedIdentifier_test * @see \ref lib::meta::sanitisedSymbol() */ string sanitise (string const& org); /** remove leading and trailing whitespace * @return a trimmed copy (default locale) */ string trim (string const& org); /** interpret text representation of a boolean value. * @remarks this function detects the relevant token rather strict.... * - yields `true` for the tokens "true", "True", "TRUE", "yes", "Yes", "YES", "1", "+" * - yields `false` for the tokens "false", "False", "FALSE", "no", "No, "NO", "0", "-" * - leading and trailing whitespace is ignored * @throws lumiera::error::Invalid for any other text content */ bool boolVal (string const&); /** check the given text if it can be interpreted as affirmative answer (bool `true`). * @remarks this function just fishes for the known `true` tokens and interprets * all other content as `false`, including empty strings. Never throws. */ bool isYes (string const&) noexcept; } // namespace util /* === some common macro definitions === */ /** suppress "warning: unused variable" on vars, which are * introduced into a scope because of some sideeffect, i.e. Locking */ #define SIDEEFFECT __attribute__ ((unused)); /** this macro wraps its parameter into a cstring literal */ #define STRINGIFY(TOKEN) __STRNGFY(TOKEN) #define __STRNGFY(TOKEN) #TOKEN /** shortcut for subclass test, intended for assertions only. * @note it is considered bad style to use such in non-assertion code, * and we probably will enforce this design rule in future. */ #define INSTANCEOF(CLASS, EXPR) (dynamic_cast (EXPR)) /** the inevitable MAX macro, sometimes still necessary in template code */ #ifndef MAX // this is present to make this definition play nice with GLib #define MAX(A,B) ((A < B) ? (B) : (A)) #endif #endif /*UTIL_HPP_*/