1 // Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
5 // Derived from google3/util/gtl/stl_util.h
7 #ifndef BASE_STL_UTIL_H_
8 #define BASE_STL_UTIL_H_
15 #include "base/logging.h"
17 // Clears internal memory of an STL object.
18 // STL clear()/reserve(0) does not always free internal memory allocated
19 // This function uses swap/destructor to ensure the internal memory is freed.
21 void STLClearObject(T
* obj
) {
24 // Sometimes "T tmp" allocates objects with memory (arena implementation?).
25 // Hence using additional reserve(0) even if it doesn't always work.
29 // For a range within a container of pointers, calls delete (non-array version)
31 // NOTE: for these three functions, we could just implement a DeleteObject
32 // functor and then call for_each() on the range and functor, but this
33 // requires us to pull in all of algorithm.h, which seems expensive.
34 // For hash_[multi]set, it is important that this deletes behind the iterator
35 // because the hash_set may call the hash function on the iterator when it is
36 // advanced, which could result in the hash function trying to deference a
38 template <class ForwardIterator
>
39 void STLDeleteContainerPointers(ForwardIterator begin
, ForwardIterator end
) {
40 while (begin
!= end
) {
41 ForwardIterator temp
= begin
;
47 // For a range within a container of pairs, calls delete (non-array version) on
48 // BOTH items in the pairs.
49 // NOTE: Like STLDeleteContainerPointers, it is important that this deletes
50 // behind the iterator because if both the key and value are deleted, the
51 // container may call the hash function on the iterator when it is advanced,
52 // which could result in the hash function trying to dereference a stale
54 template <class ForwardIterator
>
55 void STLDeleteContainerPairPointers(ForwardIterator begin
,
56 ForwardIterator end
) {
57 while (begin
!= end
) {
58 ForwardIterator temp
= begin
;
65 // For a range within a container of pairs, calls delete (non-array version) on
66 // the FIRST item in the pairs.
67 // NOTE: Like STLDeleteContainerPointers, deleting behind the iterator.
68 template <class ForwardIterator
>
69 void STLDeleteContainerPairFirstPointers(ForwardIterator begin
,
70 ForwardIterator end
) {
71 while (begin
!= end
) {
72 ForwardIterator temp
= begin
;
78 // For a range within a container of pairs, calls delete.
79 // NOTE: Like STLDeleteContainerPointers, deleting behind the iterator.
80 // Deleting the value does not always invalidate the iterator, but it may
81 // do so if the key is a pointer into the value object.
82 template <class ForwardIterator
>
83 void STLDeleteContainerPairSecondPointers(ForwardIterator begin
,
84 ForwardIterator end
) {
85 while (begin
!= end
) {
86 ForwardIterator temp
= begin
;
92 // To treat a possibly-empty vector as an array, use these functions.
93 // If you know the array will never be empty, you can use &*v.begin()
94 // directly, but that is undefined behaviour if |v| is empty.
96 inline T
* vector_as_array(std::vector
<T
>* v
) {
97 return v
->empty() ? NULL
: &*v
->begin();
101 inline const T
* vector_as_array(const std::vector
<T
>* v
) {
102 return v
->empty() ? NULL
: &*v
->begin();
105 // Return a mutable char* pointing to a string's internal buffer,
106 // which may not be null-terminated. Writing through this pointer will
107 // modify the string.
109 // string_as_array(&str)[i] is valid for 0 <= i < str.size() until the
110 // next call to a string method that invalidates iterators.
112 // As of 2006-04, there is no standard-blessed way of getting a
113 // mutable reference to a string's internal buffer. However, issue 530
114 // (http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/lwg-active.html#530)
115 // proposes this as the method. According to Matt Austern, this should
116 // already work on all current implementations.
117 inline char* string_as_array(std::string
* str
) {
118 // DO NOT USE const_cast<char*>(str->data())
119 return str
->empty() ? NULL
: &*str
->begin();
122 // The following functions are useful for cleaning up STL containers whose
123 // elements point to allocated memory.
125 // STLDeleteElements() deletes all the elements in an STL container and clears
126 // the container. This function is suitable for use with a vector, set,
127 // hash_set, or any other STL container which defines sensible begin(), end(),
128 // and clear() methods.
130 // If container is NULL, this function is a no-op.
132 // As an alternative to calling STLDeleteElements() directly, consider
133 // STLElementDeleter (defined below), which ensures that your container's
134 // elements are deleted when the STLElementDeleter goes out of scope.
136 void STLDeleteElements(T
* container
) {
139 STLDeleteContainerPointers(container
->begin(), container
->end());
143 // Given an STL container consisting of (key, value) pairs, STLDeleteValues
144 // deletes all the "value" components and clears the container. Does nothing
145 // in the case it's given a NULL pointer.
147 void STLDeleteValues(T
* container
) {
150 for (typename
T::iterator
i(container
->begin()); i
!= container
->end(); ++i
)
156 // The following classes provide a convenient way to delete all elements or
157 // values from STL containers when they goes out of scope. This greatly
158 // simplifies code that creates temporary objects and has multiple return
159 // statements. Example:
161 // vector<MyProto *> tmp_proto;
162 // STLElementDeleter<vector<MyProto *> > d(&tmp_proto);
163 // if (...) return false;
167 // Given a pointer to an STL container this class will delete all the element
168 // pointers when it goes out of scope.
170 class STLElementDeleter
{
172 STLElementDeleter
<T
>(T
* container
) : container_(container
) {}
173 ~STLElementDeleter
<T
>() { STLDeleteElements(container_
); }
179 // Given a pointer to an STL container this class will delete all the value
180 // pointers when it goes out of scope.
182 class STLValueDeleter
{
184 STLValueDeleter
<T
>(T
* container
) : container_(container
) {}
185 ~STLValueDeleter
<T
>() { STLDeleteValues(container_
); }
191 // Test to see if a set, map, hash_set or hash_map contains a particular key.
192 // Returns true if the key is in the collection.
193 template <typename Collection
, typename Key
>
194 bool ContainsKey(const Collection
& collection
, const Key
& key
) {
195 return collection
.find(key
) != collection
.end();
200 // Returns true if the container is sorted.
201 template <typename Container
>
202 bool STLIsSorted(const Container
& cont
) {
203 return std::adjacent_find(cont
.begin(), cont
.end(),
204 std::greater
<typename
Container::value_type
>())
208 // Returns a new ResultType containing the difference of two sorted containers.
209 template <typename ResultType
, typename Arg1
, typename Arg2
>
210 ResultType
STLSetDifference(const Arg1
& a1
, const Arg2
& a2
) {
211 DCHECK(STLIsSorted(a1
));
212 DCHECK(STLIsSorted(a2
));
213 ResultType difference
;
214 std::set_difference(a1
.begin(), a1
.end(),
215 a2
.begin(), a2
.end(),
216 std::inserter(difference
, difference
.end()));
222 #endif // BASE_STL_UTIL_H_