This CL makes two changes to rtc::Buffer that have had to wait for
Chromium's use of it to be modernized:
1. Change default return type of rtc::Buffer::data() from char* to
uint8_t*. uint8_t is a more natural type for bytes, and won't
accidentally convert to a string. (Chromium previously expected
the default return type to be char, which is why
rtc::Buffer::data() initially got char as default return type in
9478437f, but that's been fixed now.)
2. Stop accepting void* inputs in constructors and methods. While
this is convenient, it's also dangerous since any pointer type
will implicitly convert to void*.
(This was previously committed (9e1a6d7c) but had to be reverted
(cbf09274) because Chromium on Android wasn't quite ready for it).
TBR=tommi@webrtc.org
Review URL: https://webrtc-codereview.appspot.com/47109004
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#9132}
This CL makes two changes to rtc::Buffer that have had to wait for
Chromium's use of it to be modernized:
1. Change default return type of rtc::Buffer::data() from char* to
uint8_t*. uint8_t is a more natural type for bytes, and won't
accidentally convert to a string. (Chromium previously expected
the default return type to be char, which is why
rtc::Buffer::data() initially got char as default return type in
9478437f, but that's been fixed now.)
2. Stop accepting void* inputs in constructors and methods. While
this is convenient, it's also dangerous since any pointer type
will implicitly convert to void*.
R=tommi@webrtc.org
Review URL: https://webrtc-codereview.appspot.com/44269004
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#9121}
1. Constructors, SetData(), and AppendData() now accept uint8_t*,
int8_t*, and char*. Previously, they accepted void*, meaning that
any kind of pointer was accepted. I think requiring an explicit
cast in cases where the input array isn't already of a byte-sized
type is a better compromise between convenience and safety.
2. data() can now return a uint8_t* instead of a char*, which seems
more appropriate for a byte array, and is harder to mix up with
zero-terminated C strings. data<int8_t>() is also available so
that callers that want that type instead won't have to cast, as
is data<char>() (which remains the default until all existing
callers have been fixed).
3. Constructors, SetData(), and AppendData() now accept arrays
natively, not just decayed to pointers. The advantage of this is
that callers don't have to pass the size separately.
4. There are new constructors that allow setting size and capacity
without initializing the array. Previously, this had to be done
separately after construction.
5. Instead of TransferTo(), Buffer now supports swap(), and move
construction and assignment, and has a Pass() method that works
just like std::move(). (The Pass method is modeled after
scoped_ptr::Pass().)
R=jmarusic@webrtc.org, tommi@webrtc.org
Review URL: https://webrtc-codereview.appspot.com/42989004
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#9033}
And add a constructor for creating an uninitialized Buffer of a
specified size.
(I intend to follow up with more Buffer changes, but since it's rather
widely used, the rename is quite noisy and works better as a separate
CL.)
R=tommi@webrtc.org
Review URL: https://webrtc-codereview.appspot.com/48579004
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#8841}
git-svn-id: http://webrtc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@8841 4adac7df-926f-26a2-2b94-8c16560cd09d
