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boost/beast/core/detail/base64.hpp

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/*
   Portions from http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/cpp/common/base64.html
   Copyright notice:

   base64.cpp and base64.h

   Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Ren� Nyffenegger

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*/

#ifndef BOOST_BEAST_DETAIL_BASE64_HPP
#define BOOST_BEAST_DETAIL_BASE64_HPP

#include <cctype>
#include <string>
#include <utility>

namespace boost {
namespace beast {
namespace detail {

namespace base64 {

inline
char const*
get_alphabet()
{
    static char constexpr tab[] = {
        "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/"
    };
    return &tab[0];
}

inline
signed char const*
get_inverse()
{
    static signed char constexpr tab[] = {
         -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, //   0-15
         -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, //  16-31
         -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 62, -1, -1, -1, 63, //  32-47
         52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, //  48-63
         -1,  0,  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, //  64-79
         15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, //  80-95
         -1, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, //  96-111
         41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, // 112-127
         -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, // 128-143
         -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, // 144-159
         -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, // 160-175
         -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, // 176-191
         -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, // 192-207
         -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, // 208-223
         -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, // 224-239
         -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1  // 240-255
    };
    return &tab[0];
}


/// Returns max chars needed to encode a base64 string
inline
std::size_t constexpr
encoded_size(std::size_t n)
{
    return 4 * ((n + 2) / 3);
}

/// Returns max bytes needed to decode a base64 string
inline
std::size_t constexpr
decoded_size(std::size_t n)
{
    return n / 4 * 3; // requires n&3==0, smaller
    //return 3 * n / 4;
}

/** Encode a series of octets as a padded, base64 string.

    The resulting string will not be null terminated.

    @par Requires

    The memory pointed to by `out` points to valid memory
    of at least `encoded_size(len)` bytes.

    @return The number of characters written to `out`. This
    will exclude any null termination.
*/
template<class = void>
std::size_t
encode(void* dest, void const* src, std::size_t len)
{
    char*      out = static_cast<char*>(dest);
    char const* in = static_cast<char const*>(src);
    auto const tab = base64::get_alphabet();

    for(auto n = len / 3; n--;)
    {
        *out++ = tab[ (in[0] & 0xfc) >> 2];
        *out++ = tab[((in[0] & 0x03) << 4) + ((in[1] & 0xf0) >> 4)];
        *out++ = tab[((in[2] & 0xc0) >> 6) + ((in[1] & 0x0f) << 2)];
        *out++ = tab[  in[2] & 0x3f];
        in += 3;
    }

    switch(len % 3)
    {
    case 2:
        *out++ = tab[ (in[0] & 0xfc) >> 2];
        *out++ = tab[((in[0] & 0x03) << 4) + ((in[1] & 0xf0) >> 4)];
        *out++ = tab[                         (in[1] & 0x0f) << 2];
        *out++ = '=';
        break;

    case 1:
        *out++ = tab[ (in[0] & 0xfc) >> 2];
        *out++ = tab[((in[0] & 0x03) << 4)];
        *out++ = '=';
        *out++ = '=';
        break;

    case 0:
        break;
    }

    return out - static_cast<char*>(dest);
}

/** Decode a padded base64 string into a series of octets.

    @par Requires

    The memory pointed to by `out` points to valid memory
    of at least `decoded_size(len)` bytes.

    @return The number of octets written to `out`, and
    the number of characters read from the input string,
    expressed as a pair.
*/
template<class = void>
std::pair<std::size_t, std::size_t>
decode(void* dest, char const* src, std::size_t len)
{
    char* out = static_cast<char*>(dest);
    auto in = reinterpret_cast<unsigned char const*>(src);
    unsigned char c3[3], c4[4];
    int i = 0;
    int j = 0;

    auto const inverse = base64::get_inverse();

    while(len-- && *in != '=')
    {
        auto const v = inverse[*in];
        if(v == -1)
            break;
        ++in;
        c4[i] = v;
        if(++i == 4)
        {
            c3[0] =  (c4[0]        << 2) + ((c4[1] & 0x30) >> 4);
            c3[1] = ((c4[1] & 0xf) << 4) + ((c4[2] & 0x3c) >> 2);
            c3[2] = ((c4[2] & 0x3) << 6) +   c4[3];

            for(i = 0; i < 3; i++)
                *out++ = c3[i];
            i = 0;
        }
    }

    if(i)
    {
        c3[0] = ( c4[0]        << 2) + ((c4[1] & 0x30) >> 4);
        c3[1] = ((c4[1] & 0xf) << 4) + ((c4[2] & 0x3c) >> 2);
        c3[2] = ((c4[2] & 0x3) << 6) +   c4[3];

        for(j = 0; j < i - 1; j++)
            *out++ = c3[j];
    }

    return {out - static_cast<char*>(dest),
        in - reinterpret_cast<unsigned char const*>(src)};
}

} // base64

template<class = void>
std::string
base64_encode (std::uint8_t const* data,
    std::size_t len)
{
    std::string dest;
    dest.resize(base64::encoded_size(len));
    dest.resize(base64::encode(&dest[0], data, len));
    return dest;
}

inline
std::string
base64_encode(std::string const& s)
{
    return base64_encode (reinterpret_cast <
        std::uint8_t const*> (s.data()), s.size());
}

template<class = void>
std::string
base64_decode(std::string const& data)
{
    std::string dest;
    dest.resize(base64::decoded_size(data.size()));
    auto const result = base64::decode(
        &dest[0], data.data(), data.size());
    dest.resize(result.first);
    return dest;
}

} // detail
} // beast
} // boost

#endif