icing/util/encode-util.h

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#ifndef ICING_UTIL_ENCODE_UTIL_H_
#define ICING_UTIL_ENCODE_UTIL_H_

#include <cstdint>
#include <string>
#include <string_view>

namespace icing {
namespace lib {

namespace encode_util {

// Converts an unsigned 64-bit integer to a C string that doesn't contain 0-byte
// since C string uses 0-byte as terminator. This increases the size of the
// encoded_str from 8-bytes to 10-bytes at worst.
//
// Note that it is compatible with unsigned 32-bit integers, i.e. casting an
// uint32_t to uint64_t with the same value and encoding it by this method will
// get the same string.
std::string EncodeIntToCString(uint64_t value);

// Converts a C string (encoded from EncodeIntToCString()) to an unsigned 64-bit
// integer.
uint64_t DecodeIntFromCString(std::string_view encoded_str);

}  // namespace encode_util

}  // namespace lib
}  // namespace icing

#endif  // ICING_UTIL_ENCODE_UTIL_H_