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1 /*
2  * Copyright (c) 2014-2020 Pavel Kalvoda <me@pavelkalvoda.com>
3  *
4  * libcbor is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5  * it under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.
6  */
7 
8 #ifndef LIBCBOR_SERIALIZATION_H
9 #define LIBCBOR_SERIALIZATION_H
10 
11 #include "cbor/cbor_export.h"
12 #include "cbor/common.h"
13 
14 #ifdef __cplusplus
15 extern "C" {
16 #endif
17 
18 /*
19  * ============================================================================
20  * High level encoding
21  * ============================================================================
22  */
23 
24 /** Serialize the given item
25  *
26  * @param item A data item
27  * @param buffer Buffer to serialize to
28  * @param buffer_size Size of the \p buffer
29  * @return Length of the result. 0 on failure.
30  */
31 _CBOR_NODISCARD CBOR_EXPORT size_t cbor_serialize(const cbor_item_t *item,
32                                                   cbor_mutable_data buffer,
33                                                   size_t buffer_size);
34 
35 /** Compute the length (in bytes) of the item when serialized using
36  * `cbor_serialize`.
37  *
38  * Time complexity is proportional to the number of nested items.
39  *
40  * @param item A data item
41  * @return Length (>= 1) of the item when serialized. 0 if the length overflows
42  * `size_t`.
43  */
44 _CBOR_NODISCARD CBOR_EXPORT size_t
45 cbor_serialized_size(const cbor_item_t *item);
46 
47 /** Serialize the given item, allocating buffers as needed
48  *
49  * Since libcbor v0.10, the return value is always the same as `buffer_size` (if
50  * provided, see https://github.com/PJK/libcbor/pull/251/). New clients should
51  * ignore the return value.
52  *
53  * \rst
54  * .. warning:: It is the caller's responsibility to free the buffer using an
55  *  appropriate ``free`` implementation.
56  * \endrst
57  *
58  * @param item A data item
59  * @param[out] buffer Buffer containing the result
60  * @param[out] buffer_size Size of the \p buffer, or 0 on memory allocation
61  * failure.
62  * @return Length of the result in bytes
63  * @return 0 on memory allocation failure, in which case \p buffer is `NULL`.
64  */
65 CBOR_EXPORT size_t cbor_serialize_alloc(const cbor_item_t *item,
66                                         unsigned char **buffer,
67                                         size_t *buffer_size);
68 
69 /** Serialize an uint
70  *
71  * @param item A uint
72  * @param[out] buffer Buffer to serialize to
73  * @param buffer_size Size of the \p buffer
74  * @return Length of the result
75  * @return 0 if the \p buffer_size doesn't fit the result
76  */
77 _CBOR_NODISCARD CBOR_EXPORT size_t cbor_serialize_uint(const cbor_item_t *item,
78                                                        cbor_mutable_data buffer,
79                                                        size_t buffer_size);
80 
81 /** Serialize a negint
82  *
83  * @param item A negint
84  * @param[out] buffer Buffer to serialize to
85  * @param buffer_size Size of the \p buffer
86  * @return Length of the result
87  * @return 0 if the \p buffer_size doesn't fit the result
88  */
89 _CBOR_NODISCARD CBOR_EXPORT size_t cbor_serialize_negint(
90     const cbor_item_t *item, cbor_mutable_data buffer, size_t buffer_size);
91 
92 /** Serialize a bytestring
93  *
94  * @param item A bytestring
95  * @param[out] buffer Buffer to serialize to
96  * @param buffer_size Size of the \p buffer
97  * @return Length of the result
98  * @return 0 if the \p buffer_size doesn't fit the result. The \p buffer may
99  * still be modified
100  */
101 _CBOR_NODISCARD CBOR_EXPORT size_t cbor_serialize_bytestring(
102     const cbor_item_t *item, cbor_mutable_data buffer, size_t buffer_size);
103 
104 /** Serialize a string
105  *
106  * @param item A string
107  * @param[out] buffer Buffer to serialize to
108  * @param buffer_size Size of the \p buffer
109  * @return Length of the result
110  * @return 0 if the \p buffer_size doesn't fit the result. The \p buffer may
111  * still be modified
112  */
113 _CBOR_NODISCARD CBOR_EXPORT size_t cbor_serialize_string(
114     const cbor_item_t *item, cbor_mutable_data buffer, size_t buffer_size);
115 /** Serialize an array
116  *
117  * @param item An array
118  * @param[out] buffer Buffer to serialize to
119  * @param buffer_size Size of the \p buffer
120  * @return Length of the result
121  * @return 0 if the \p buffer_size doesn't fit the result. The \p buffer may
122  * still be modified
123  */
124 _CBOR_NODISCARD CBOR_EXPORT size_t cbor_serialize_array(
125     const cbor_item_t *item, cbor_mutable_data buffer, size_t buffer_size);
126 
127 /** Serialize a map
128  *
129  * @param item A map
130  * @param[out] buffer Buffer to serialize to
131  * @param buffer_size Size of the \p buffer
132  * @return Length of the result
133  * @return 0 if the \p buffer_size doesn't fit the result. The \p buffer may
134  * still be modified
135  */
136 _CBOR_NODISCARD CBOR_EXPORT size_t cbor_serialize_map(const cbor_item_t *item,
137                                                       cbor_mutable_data buffer,
138                                                       size_t buffer_size);
139 
140 /** Serialize a tag
141  *
142  * @param item A tag
143  * @param[out] buffer Buffer to serialize to
144  * @param buffer_size Size of the \p buffer
145  * @return Length of the result
146  * @return 0 if the \p buffer_size doesn't fit the result. The \p buffer may
147  * still be modified
148  */
149 _CBOR_NODISCARD CBOR_EXPORT size_t cbor_serialize_tag(const cbor_item_t *item,
150                                                       cbor_mutable_data buffer,
151                                                       size_t buffer_size);
152 
153 /** Serialize a
154  *
155  * @param item A float or ctrl
156  * @param[out] buffer Buffer to serialize to
157  * @param buffer_size Size of the \p buffer
158  * @return Length of the result
159  * @return 0 if the \p buffer_size doesn't fit the result
160  */
161 _CBOR_NODISCARD CBOR_EXPORT size_t cbor_serialize_float_ctrl(
162     const cbor_item_t *item, cbor_mutable_data buffer, size_t buffer_size);
163 
164 #ifdef __cplusplus
165 }
166 #endif
167 
168 #endif  // LIBCBOR_SERIALIZATION_H
169