encode-decode.cc

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#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <sstream>
#include <stdint.h>

namespace ns3 {

std::string
BufferToString (uint8_t *buffer, uint32_t len)
{
  std::ostringstream oss;
  //
  // Tell the stream to make hex characters, zero-filled
  //
  oss.setf (std::ios::hex, std::ios::basefield);
  oss.fill ('0');

  //
  // Loop through the buffer, separating the two-digit-wide hex bytes
  // with a colon.
  //
  for (uint8_t i = 0; i < len; i++)
    {
      oss << ":" << std::setw (2) << (uint32_t)buffer[i];
    }
  return oss.str ();
}

bool
StringToBuffer (std::string s, uint8_t *buffer, uint32_t *len)
{
  //
  // If the string was made by our inverse function, the string length must
  // be a multiple of three characters in length.  Use this fact to do a
  // quick reasonableness test.
  //
  if ((s.length () % 3) != 0)
    {
      return false;
    }

  std::istringstream iss;
  iss.str (s);

  uint8_t n = 0;

  while (iss.good ())
    {
      //
      // The first character in the "triplet" we're working on is always the
      // the ':' separator.  Read that into a char and make sure we're skipping
      // what we think we're skipping.
      //
      char c;
      iss.read (&c, 1);
      if (c != ':')
        {
          return false;
        }

      //
      // And then read in the real bits and convert them.
      //
      uint32_t tmp;
      iss >> std::hex >> tmp;
      buffer[n] = tmp;
      n++;
    }

  *len = n;
  return true;
}

} // namespace ns3