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/*
 * Copyright (C) 2003-2009 The Music Player Daemon Project
 * http://www.musicpd.org
 *
 * 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.
 *
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 */

#ifndef MPD_DECODER_BUFFER_H
#define MPD_DECODER_BUFFER_H

#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stddef.h>

/**
 * This objects handles buffered reads in decoder plugins easily.  You
 * create a buffer object, and use its high-level methods to fill and
 * read it.  It will automatically handle shifting the buffer.
 */
struct decoder_buffer;

struct decoder;
struct input_stream;

/**
 * Creates a new buffer.
 *
 * @param decoder the decoder object, used for decoder_read(), may be NULL
 * @param is the input stream object where we should read from
 * @param size the maximum size of the buffer
 * @return the new decoder_buffer object
 */
struct decoder_buffer *
decoder_buffer_new(struct decoder *decoder, struct input_stream *is,
		   size_t size);

/**
 * Frees resources used by the decoder_buffer object.
 */
void
decoder_buffer_free(struct decoder_buffer *buffer);

bool
decoder_buffer_is_empty(const struct decoder_buffer *buffer);

bool
decoder_buffer_is_full(const struct decoder_buffer *buffer);

/**
 * Read data from the input_stream and append it to the buffer.
 *
 * @return true if data was appended; false if there is no data
 * available (yet), end of file, I/O error or a decoder command was
 * received
 */
bool
decoder_buffer_fill(struct decoder_buffer *buffer);

/**
 * Reads data from the buffer.  This data is not yet consumed, you
 * have to call decoder_buffer_consume() to do that.  The returned
 * buffer becomes invalid after a decoder_buffer_fill() or a
 * decoder_buffer_consume() call.
 *
 * @param buffer the decoder_buffer object
 * @param length_r pointer to a size_t where you will receive the
 * number of bytes available
 * @return a pointer to the read buffer, or NULL if there is no data
 * available
 */
const void *
decoder_buffer_read(const struct decoder_buffer *buffer, size_t *length_r);

/**
 * Consume (delete, invalidate) a part of the buffer.  The "nbytes"
 * parameter must not be larger than the length returned by
 * decoder_buffer_read().
 *
 * @param buffer the decoder_buffer object
 * @param nbytes the number of bytes to consume
 */
void
decoder_buffer_consume(struct decoder_buffer *buffer, size_t nbytes);

#endif