bit-deserializer.h

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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2020 Universita' di Firenze, Italy
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 *
 * Author: Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
 */
 
#ifndef BITDESERIALIZER_H_
#define BITDESERIALIZER_H_
 
#include <cstdint>
#include <deque>
#include <vector>
 
namespace ns3
{
 
/**
 * \ingroup packet
 *
 * \brief Bit deserializer. See also \sa ns3::BitSerializer
 *
 * This class helps converting a variable number, variable sized
 * number of bit-boundary fields stored as byte array representation
 * and extract the original bit-fields.
 *
 * Note that once the Deserialization starts, it's not anymore
 * possible to add more data to the byte blob to deserialize.
 */
 
class BitDeserializer
{
  public:
    BitDeserializer();
 
    /**
     * Pushes some bytes into the blob to be deserialized.
     * \param bytes The bytes to add.
     */
    void PushBytes(std::vector<uint8_t> bytes);
 
    /**
     * Pushes some bytes into the blob to be deserialized.
     * \param bytes The bytes to add.
     * \param size The length of the array.
     */
    void PushBytes(uint8_t* bytes, uint32_t size);
 
    /**
     * Pushes one byte into the blob to be deserialized.
     * \param byte The byte to add.
     */
    void PushByte(uint8_t byte);
 
    /**
     * Pops a given number of bits from the blob front. In other terms,
     * 'size' bits are shifted from the contents of the byte blob
     * onto the return value.
     *
     * The maximum number of bits to be deserialized in one single call is 64.
     *
     * \param size The number of bits to pop.
     * \return The popped bits value
     */
    uint64_t GetBits(uint8_t size);
 
  private:
    /**
     * Prepare the byte array to the deserialization.
     */
    void PrepareDeserialization();
 
    std::deque<bool> m_blob;          //!< Blob of bits ready to be deserialized.
    std::vector<uint8_t> m_bytesBlob; //!< Blob of bytes to be deserialized.
    bool m_deserializing;             //!< True if the deserialization did start already.
};
 
} // namespace ns3
 
#endif /* BITDESERIALIZER_H_ */