crown-engine/engine/core/containers/EventStream.h

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Copyright (c) 2012 Daniele Bartolini, Simone Boscaratto

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#pragma once

#include "Assert.h"
#include "Allocator.h"
#include "List.h"

namespace crown
{

typedef List<char> EventStream;

/// Functions for operating on a List<char> as a stream of events of the form:
/// [event_header_0][event_data_0][event_header_1][event_data_1] ...
namespace event_stream
{

struct Header
{
	uint32_t type;
	uint32_t size;
};

/// Appends the @a event of the given @a type and @a size to the stream @a s. 
inline void write(EventStream& s, uint32_t type, uint32_t size, const void* event)
{
	Header header;
	header.type = type;
	header.size = size;

	s.push((char*) &header, sizeof(Header));
	s.push((char*) event, (size_t) size);
}

/// Appends the @a event of the given @a type to the stream @a s
template <typename T>
inline void write(EventStream& s, uint32_t type, const T& event)
{
	event_stream::write(s, type, sizeof(T), &event);
}

} // namespace event_stream
} // namespace crown