kmail/util.h

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**
** Filename   : util
** Created on : 03 April, 2005
** Copyright  : (c) 2005 Till Adam
** Email      : <adam@kde.org>
**
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#ifndef KMAILUTIL_H
#define KMAILUTIL_H

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <QObject>
#include <QByteArray>
class DwString;

namespace KMail
{
    /**
     * The Util namespace contains a collection of helper functions use in
     * various places.
     */
namespace Util {
    /**
     * Convert all sequences of "\r\n" (carriage return followed by a line
     * feed) to a single "\n" (line feed). The conversion happens in place.
     * Returns the length of the resulting string.
     * @param str The string to convert.
     * @param strLen The length of the string to convert.
     * @return The new length of the converted string.
     */
    size_t crlf2lf( char* str, const size_t strLen );


    /**
     * Convert "\n" line endings to "\r\n".
     * @param src The source string to convert.
     * @return The result string.
     */
    QByteArray lf2crlf( const QByteArray & src );

    /**
     * Construct a QByteArray from a DwString
     */
    QByteArray ByteArray( const DwString& str );

    /**
     * Construct a DwString from a QByteArray
     */
    DwString dwString( const QByteArray& str );

    /**
     * A LaterDeleter is intended to be used with the RAII ( Resource
     * Acquisiation is Initialization ) paradigm. When an instance of it
     * goes out of scope it deletes the associated object  It can be
     * disabled, in case the deletion needs to be avoided for some
     * reason, since going out-of-scope cannot be avoided.
     */
    class LaterDeleter
    {
      public:
      LaterDeleter( QObject *o)
        :m_object( o ), m_disabled( false )
      {
      }
      virtual ~LaterDeleter()
      {
        if ( !m_disabled ) {
          m_object->deleteLater();
        }
      }
      void setDisabled( bool v )
      {
        m_disabled = v;
      }
      protected:
      QObject *m_object;
      bool m_disabled;
    };
}
}

#endif