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scylladb/imr/core.hh
Paweł Dziepak 5ddb118c78 imr: introduce placeholders
In some cases the actual value of an IMR object is not know at the
serialisation time. If the type is fixed-size we can use a placeholder
to defer writing it to a more conveninent moment.
2018-05-31 10:09:01 +01:00

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/*
* Copyright (C) 2018 ScyllaDB
*/
/*
* This file is part of Scylla.
*
* Scylla is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
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* 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.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with Scylla. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#pragma once
#include "utils/fragment_range.hh"
namespace imr {
/// No-op deserialisation context
///
/// This is a dummy deserialisation context to be used when there is no need
/// for one, but the interface expects a context object.
static const struct no_context_t {
template<typename Tag, typename... Args>
const no_context_t& context_for(Args&&...) const noexcept { return *this; }
} no_context;
struct no_op_continuation {
template<typename T>
static T run(T value) noexcept {
return value;
}
};
template<typename T>
class placeholder {
uint8_t* _pointer = nullptr;
public:
placeholder() = default;
explicit placeholder(uint8_t* ptr) noexcept : _pointer(ptr) { }
void set_pointer(uint8_t* ptr) noexcept { _pointer = ptr; }
template<typename... Args>
void serialize(Args&&... args) noexcept {
if (!_pointer) {
// We lose the information whether we are in the sizing or
// serializing phase, hence the need for this run-time check.
return;
}
T::serialize(_pointer, std::forward<Args>(args)...);
}
};
}