snappy/snappy.h

// Copyright 2005 and onwards Google Inc.
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//
// A light-weight compression algorithm.  It is designed for speed of
// compression and decompression, rather than for the utmost in space
// savings.
//
// For getting better compression ratios when you are compressing data
// with long repeated sequences or compressing data that is similar to
// other data, while still compressing fast, you might look at first
// using BMDiff and then compressing the output of BMDiff with
// Snappy.

#ifndef UTIL_SNAPPY_SNAPPY_H__
#define UTIL_SNAPPY_SNAPPY_H__

#include <stddef.h>
#include <string>

#include "snappy-stubs-public.h"

namespace snappy {
  class Source;
  class Sink;

  // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  // Generic compression/decompression routines.
  // ------------------------------------------------------------------------

  // Compress the bytes read from "*source" and append to "*sink". Return the
  // number of bytes written.
  size_t Compress(Source* source, Sink* sink);

  bool GetUncompressedLength(Source* source, uint32* result);

  // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  // Higher-level string based routines (should be sufficient for most users)
  // ------------------------------------------------------------------------

  // Sets "*output" to the compressed version of "input[0,input_length-1]".
  // Original contents of *output are lost.
  //
  // REQUIRES: "input[]" is not an alias of "*output".
  size_t Compress(const char* input, size_t input_length, string* output);

  // Decompresses "compressed[0,compressed_length-1]" to "*uncompressed".
  // Original contents of "*uncompressed" are lost.
  //
  // REQUIRES: "compressed[]" is not an alias of "*uncompressed".
  //
  // returns false if the message is corrupted and could not be decompressed
  bool Uncompress(const char* compressed, size_t compressed_length,
                  string* uncompressed);


  // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  // Lower-level character array based routines.  May be useful for
  // efficiency reasons in certain circumstances.
  // ------------------------------------------------------------------------

  // REQUIRES: "compressed" must point to an area of memory that is at
  // least "MaxCompressedLength(input_length)" bytes in length.
  //
  // Takes the data stored in "input[0..input_length]" and stores
  // it in the array pointed to by "compressed".
  //
  // "*compressed_length" is set to the length of the compressed output.
  //
  // Example:
  //    char* output = new char[snappy::MaxCompressedLength(input_length)];
  //    size_t output_length;
  //    RawCompress(input, input_length, output, &output_length);
  //    ... Process(output, output_length) ...
  //    delete [] output;
  void RawCompress(const char* input,
                   size_t input_length,
                   char* compressed,
                   size_t* compressed_length);

  // Given data in "compressed[0..compressed_length-1]" generated by
  // calling the Snappy::Compress routine, this routine
  // stores the uncompressed data to
  //    uncompressed[0..GetUncompressedLength(compressed)-1]
  // returns false if the message is corrupted and could not be decrypted
  bool RawUncompress(const char* compressed, size_t compressed_length,
                     char* uncompressed);

  // Given data from the byte source 'compressed' generated by calling
  // the Snappy::Compress routine, this routine stores the uncompressed
  // data to
  //    uncompressed[0..GetUncompressedLength(compressed,compressed_length)-1]
  // returns false if the message is corrupted and could not be decrypted
  bool RawUncompress(Source* compressed, char* uncompressed);

  // Returns the maximal size of the compressed representation of
  // input data that is "source_bytes" bytes in length;
  size_t MaxCompressedLength(size_t source_bytes);

  // REQUIRES: "compressed[]" was produced by RawCompress() or Compress()
  // Returns true and stores the length of the uncompressed data in
  // *result normally.  Returns false on parsing error.
  // This operation takes O(1) time.
  bool GetUncompressedLength(const char* compressed, size_t compressed_length,
                             size_t* result);

  // Returns true iff the contents of "compressed[]" can be uncompressed
  // successfully.  Does not return the uncompressed data.  Takes
  // time proportional to compressed_length, but is usually at least
  // a factor of four faster than actual decompression.
  bool IsValidCompressedBuffer(const char* compressed,
                               size_t compressed_length);

  // *** DO NOT CHANGE THE VALUE OF kBlockSize ***
  //
  // New Compression code chops up the input into blocks of at most
  // the following size.  This ensures that back-references in the
  // output never cross kBlockSize block boundaries.  This can be
  // helpful in implementing blocked decompression.  However the
  // decompression code should not rely on this guarantee since older
  // compression code may not obey it.
  static const int kBlockLog = 15;
  static const int kBlockSize = 1 << kBlockLog;

  static const int kMaxHashTableBits = 14;
  static const int kMaxHashTableSize = 1 << kMaxHashTableBits;

}  // end namespace snappy


#endif  // UTIL_SNAPPY_SNAPPY_H__