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1 // Copyright 2014 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 // A streaming validator for UTF-8. Validation is based on the definition in
6 // RFC-3629. In particular, it does not reject the invalid characters rejected
7 // by base::IsStringUTF8().
8 //
9 // The implementation detects errors on the first possible byte.
11 #ifndef BASE_I18N_STREAMING_UTF8_VALIDATOR_H_
12 #define BASE_I18N_STREAMING_UTF8_VALIDATOR_H_
14 #include <string>
16 #include "base/basictypes.h"
17 #include "base/i18n/base_i18n_export.h"
19 namespace base {
21 class BASE_I18N_EXPORT StreamingUtf8Validator {
22 public:
23 // The validator exposes 3 states. It starts in state VALID_ENDPOINT. As it
24 // processes characters it alternates between VALID_ENDPOINT and
25 // VALID_MIDPOINT. If it encounters an invalid byte or UTF-8 sequence the
26 // state changes permanently to INVALID.
27 enum State {
28 VALID_ENDPOINT,
29 VALID_MIDPOINT,
30 INVALID
33 StreamingUtf8Validator() : state_(0u) {}
34 // Trivial destructor intentionally omitted.
36 // Validate |size| bytes starting at |data|. If the concatenation of all calls
37 // to AddBytes() since this object was constructed or reset is a valid UTF-8
38 // string, returns VALID_ENDPOINT. If it could be the prefix of a valid UTF-8
39 // string, returns VALID_MIDPOINT. If an invalid byte or UTF-8 sequence was
40 // present, returns INVALID.
41 State AddBytes(const char* data, size_t size);
43 // Return the object to a freshly-constructed state so that it can be re-used.
44 void Reset();
46 // Validate a complete string using the same criteria. Returns true if the
47 // string only contains complete, valid UTF-8 codepoints.
48 static bool Validate(const std::string& string);
50 private:
51 // The current state of the validator. Value 0 is the initial/valid state.
52 // The state is stored as an offset into |kUtf8ValidatorTables|. The special
53 // state |kUtf8InvalidState| is invalid.
54 uint8 state_;
56 // This type could be made copyable but there is currently no use-case for
57 // it.
58 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(StreamingUtf8Validator);
61 } // namespace base
63 #endif // BASE_I18N_STREAMING_UTF8_VALIDATOR_H_