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flatbuffers/swift/Sources/FlatBuffers/FlatBufferObject.swift
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/*
* Copyright 2021 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
import Foundation
/// NativeStruct is a protocol that indicates if the struct is a native `swift` struct
/// since now we will be serializing native structs into the buffer.
public protocol NativeStruct {}
/// FlatbuffersInitializable is a protocol that allows any object to be
/// Initialized from a ByteBuffer
public protocol FlatbuffersInitializable {
/// Any flatbuffers object that confirms to this protocol is going to be
/// initializable through this initializer
init(_ bb: ByteBuffer, o: Int32)
}
/// FlatbufferObject structures all the Flatbuffers objects
public protocol FlatBufferObject: FlatbuffersInitializable {
var __buffer: ByteBuffer! { get }
}
/// ``ObjectAPIPacker`` is a protocol that allows object to pack and unpack from a
/// ``NativeObject`` to a flatbuffers Object and vice versa.
public protocol ObjectAPIPacker {
/// associatedtype to the object that should be unpacked.
associatedtype T
/// ``pack(_:obj:)-3ptws`` tries to pacs the variables of a native Object into the `ByteBuffer` by using
/// a FlatBufferBuilder
/// - Parameters:
/// - builder: FlatBufferBuilder that will host incoming data
/// - obj: Object of associatedtype to the current implementer
///
/// ``pack(_:obj:)-3ptws`` can be called by passing through an already initialized ``FlatBufferBuilder``
/// or it can be called by using the public API that will create a new ``FlatBufferBuilder``
static func pack(_ builder: inout FlatBufferBuilder, obj: inout T?) -> Offset
/// ``pack(_:obj:)-20ipk`` packs the variables of a native Object into the `ByteBuffer` by using
/// the FlatBufferBuilder
/// - Parameters:
/// - builder: FlatBufferBuilder that will host incoming data
/// - obj: Object of associatedtype to the current implementer
///
/// ``pack(_:obj:)-20ipk`` can be called by passing through an already initialized ``FlatBufferBuilder``
/// or it can be called by using the public API that will create a new ``FlatBufferBuilder``
static func pack(_ builder: inout FlatBufferBuilder, obj: inout T) -> Offset
/// ``unpack()`` unpacks a ``FlatBuffers`` object into a Native swift object.
mutating func unpack() -> T
}