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// Copyright 2013-2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
// except according to those terms.

//! Hex binary-to-text encoding

pub use self::FromHexError::*;

use std::fmt;
use std::error;

/// A trait for converting a value to hexadecimal encoding
pub trait ToHex {
    /// Converts the value of `self` to a hex value, returning the owned
    /// string.
    fn to_hex(&self) -> String;
}

const CHARS: &'static [u8] = b"0123456789abcdef";

impl ToHex for [u8] {
    /// Turn a vector of `u8` bytes into a hexadecimal string.
    fn to_hex(&self) -> String {
        let mut v = Vec::with_capacity(self.len() * 2);
        for &byte in self {
            v.push(CHARS[(byte >> 4) as usize]);
            v.push(CHARS[(byte & 0xf) as usize]);
        }

        unsafe {
            String::from_utf8_unchecked(v)
        }
    }
}

/// A trait for converting hexadecimal encoded values
pub trait FromHex {
    /// Converts the value of `self`, interpreted as hexadecimal encoded data,
    /// into an owned vector of bytes, returning the vector.
    fn from_hex(&self) -> Result<Vec<u8>, FromHexError>;
}

/// Errors that can occur when decoding a hex encoded string
#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug)]
pub enum FromHexError {
    /// The input contained a character not part of the hex format
    InvalidHexCharacter(char, usize),
    /// The input had an invalid length
    InvalidHexLength,
}

impl fmt::Display for FromHexError {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        match *self {
            InvalidHexCharacter(ch, idx) =>
                write!(f, "Invalid character '{}' at position {}", ch, idx),
            InvalidHexLength => write!(f, "Invalid input length"),
        }
    }
}

impl error::Error for FromHexError {
    fn description(&self) -> &str {
        match *self {
            InvalidHexCharacter(..) => "invalid character",
            InvalidHexLength => "invalid length",
        }
    }
}


impl FromHex for str {
    /// Convert any hexadecimal encoded string (literal, `@`, `&`, or `~`)
    /// to the byte values it encodes.
    ///
    /// You can use the `String::from_utf8` function to turn a
    /// `Vec<u8>` into a string with characters corresponding to those values.
    ///
    fn from_hex(&self) -> Result<Vec<u8>, FromHexError> {
        // This may be an overestimate if there is any whitespace
        let mut b = Vec::with_capacity(self.len() / 2);
        let mut modulus = 0;
        let mut buf = 0;

        for (idx, byte) in self.bytes().enumerate() {
            buf <<= 4;

            match byte {
                b'A'...b'F' => buf |= byte - b'A' + 10,
                b'a'...b'f' => buf |= byte - b'a' + 10,
                b'0'...b'9' => buf |= byte - b'0',
                b' '|b'\r'|b'\n'|b'\t' => {
                    buf >>= 4;
                    continue
                }
                _ => {
                    let ch = self[idx..].chars().next().unwrap();
                    return Err(InvalidHexCharacter(ch, idx))
                }
            }

            modulus += 1;
            if modulus == 2 {
                modulus = 0;
                b.push(buf);
            }
        }

        match modulus {
            0 => Ok(b.into_iter().collect()),
            _ => Err(InvalidHexLength),
        }
    }
}