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+// Copyright 2016 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+#ifndef QUICHE_HTTP2_HPACK_DECODER_HPACK_STRING_DECODER_H_
+#define QUICHE_HTTP2_HPACK_DECODER_HPACK_STRING_DECODER_H_
+
+// HpackStringDecoder decodes strings encoded per the HPACK spec; this does
+// not mean decompressing Huffman encoded strings, just identifying the length,
+// encoding and contents for a listener.
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+#include <algorithm>
+#include <cstdint>
+
+#include "base/logging.h"
+#include "base/macros.h"
+#include "net/third_party/quiche/src/http2/decoder/decode_buffer.h"
+#include "net/third_party/quiche/src/http2/decoder/decode_status.h"
+#include "net/third_party/quiche/src/http2/hpack/varint/hpack_varint_decoder.h"
+#include "net/third_party/quiche/src/http2/platform/api/http2_export.h"
+#include "net/third_party/quiche/src/http2/platform/api/http2_macros.h"
+#include "net/third_party/quiche/src/http2/platform/api/http2_string.h"
+
+namespace http2 {
+
+// Decodes a single string in an HPACK header entry. The high order bit of
+// the first byte of the length is the H (Huffman) bit indicating whether
+// the value is Huffman encoded, and the remainder of the byte is the first
+// 7 bits of an HPACK varint.
+//
+// Call Start() to begin decoding; if it returns kDecodeInProgress, then call
+// Resume() when more input is available, repeating until kDecodeInProgress is
+// not returned. If kDecodeDone or kDecodeError is returned, then Resume() must
+// not be called until Start() has been called to start decoding a new string.
+class HTTP2_EXPORT_PRIVATE HpackStringDecoder {
+ public:
+  enum StringDecoderState {
+    kStartDecodingLength,
+    kDecodingString,
+    kResumeDecodingLength,
+  };
+
+  template <class Listener>
+  DecodeStatus Start(DecodeBuffer* db, Listener* cb) {
+    // Fast decode path is used if the string is under 127 bytes and the
+    // entire length of the string is in the decode buffer. More than 83% of
+    // string lengths are encoded in just one byte.
+    if (db->HasData() && (*db->cursor() & 0x7f) != 0x7f) {
+      // The string is short.
+      uint8_t h_and_prefix = db->DecodeUInt8();
+      uint8_t length = h_and_prefix & 0x7f;
+      bool huffman_encoded = (h_and_prefix & 0x80) == 0x80;
+      cb->OnStringStart(huffman_encoded, length);
+      if (length <= db->Remaining()) {
+        // Yeah, we've got the whole thing in the decode buffer.
+        // Ideally this will be the common case. Note that we don't
+        // update any of the member variables in this path.
+        cb->OnStringData(db->cursor(), length);
+        db->AdvanceCursor(length);
+        cb->OnStringEnd();
+        return DecodeStatus::kDecodeDone;
+      }
+      // Not all in the buffer.
+      huffman_encoded_ = huffman_encoded;
+      remaining_ = length;
+      // Call Resume to decode the string body, which is only partially
+      // in the decode buffer (or not at all).
+      state_ = kDecodingString;
+      return Resume(db, cb);
+    }
+    // Call Resume to decode the string length, which is either not in
+    // the decode buffer, or spans multiple bytes.
+    state_ = kStartDecodingLength;
+    return Resume(db, cb);
+  }
+
+  template <class Listener>
+  DecodeStatus Resume(DecodeBuffer* db, Listener* cb) {
+    DecodeStatus status;
+    while (true) {
+      switch (state_) {
+        case kStartDecodingLength:
+          DVLOG(2) << "kStartDecodingLength: db->Remaining=" << db->Remaining();
+          if (!StartDecodingLength(db, cb, &status)) {
+            // The length is split across decode buffers.
+            return status;
+          }
+          // We've finished decoding the length, which spanned one or more
+          // bytes. Approximately 17% of strings have a length that is greater
+          // than 126 bytes, and thus the length is encoded in more than one
+          // byte, and so doesn't get the benefit of the optimization in
+          // Start() for single byte lengths. But, we still expect that most
+          // of such strings will be contained entirely in a single decode
+          // buffer, and hence this fall through skips another trip through the
+          // switch above and more importantly skips setting the state_ variable
+          // again in those cases where we don't need it.
+          HTTP2_FALLTHROUGH;
+
+        case kDecodingString:
+          DVLOG(2) << "kDecodingString: db->Remaining=" << db->Remaining()
+                   << "    remaining_=" << remaining_;
+          return DecodeString(db, cb);
+
+        case kResumeDecodingLength:
+          DVLOG(2) << "kResumeDecodingLength: db->Remaining="
+                   << db->Remaining();
+          if (!ResumeDecodingLength(db, cb, &status)) {
+            return status;
+          }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  Http2String DebugString() const;
+
+ private:
+  static Http2String StateToString(StringDecoderState v);
+
+  // Returns true if the length is fully decoded and the listener wants the
+  // decoding to continue, false otherwise; status is set to the status from
+  // the varint decoder.
+  // If the length is not fully decoded, case state_ is set appropriately
+  // for the next call to Resume.
+  template <class Listener>
+  bool StartDecodingLength(DecodeBuffer* db,
+                           Listener* cb,
+                           DecodeStatus* status) {
+    if (db->Empty()) {
+      *status = DecodeStatus::kDecodeInProgress;
+      state_ = kStartDecodingLength;
+      return false;
+    }
+    uint8_t h_and_prefix = db->DecodeUInt8();
+    huffman_encoded_ = (h_and_prefix & 0x80) == 0x80;
+    *status = length_decoder_.Start(h_and_prefix, 7, db);
+    if (*status == DecodeStatus::kDecodeDone) {
+      OnStringStart(cb, status);
+      return true;
+    }
+    // Set the state to cover the DecodeStatus::kDecodeInProgress case.
+    // Won't be needed if the status is kDecodeError.
+    state_ = kResumeDecodingLength;
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  // Returns true if the length is fully decoded and the listener wants the
+  // decoding to continue, false otherwise; status is set to the status from
+  // the varint decoder; state_ is updated when fully decoded.
+  // If the length is not fully decoded, case state_ is set appropriately
+  // for the next call to Resume.
+  template <class Listener>
+  bool ResumeDecodingLength(DecodeBuffer* db,
+                            Listener* cb,
+                            DecodeStatus* status) {
+    DCHECK_EQ(state_, kResumeDecodingLength);
+    *status = length_decoder_.Resume(db);
+    if (*status == DecodeStatus::kDecodeDone) {
+      state_ = kDecodingString;
+      OnStringStart(cb, status);
+      return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  // Returns true if the listener wants the decoding to continue, and
+  // false otherwise, in which case status set.
+  template <class Listener>
+  void OnStringStart(Listener* cb, DecodeStatus* status) {
+    remaining_ = length_decoder_.value();
+    // Make callback so consumer knows what is coming.
+    cb->OnStringStart(huffman_encoded_, remaining_);
+  }
+
+  // Passes the available portion of the string to the listener, and signals
+  // the end of the string when it is reached. Returns kDecodeDone or
+  // kDecodeInProgress as appropriate.
+  template <class Listener>
+  DecodeStatus DecodeString(DecodeBuffer* db, Listener* cb) {
+    size_t len = std::min(remaining_, db->Remaining());
+    if (len > 0) {
+      cb->OnStringData(db->cursor(), len);
+      db->AdvanceCursor(len);
+      remaining_ -= len;
+    }
+    if (remaining_ == 0) {
+      cb->OnStringEnd();
+      return DecodeStatus::kDecodeDone;
+    }
+    state_ = kDecodingString;
+    return DecodeStatus::kDecodeInProgress;
+  }
+
+  HpackVarintDecoder length_decoder_;
+
+  // These fields are initialized just to keep ASAN happy about reading
+  // them from DebugString().
+  size_t remaining_ = 0;
+  StringDecoderState state_ = kStartDecodingLength;
+  bool huffman_encoded_ = false;
+};
+
+HTTP2_EXPORT_PRIVATE std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& out,
+                                              const HpackStringDecoder& v);
+
+}  // namespace http2
+#endif  // QUICHE_HTTP2_HPACK_DECODER_HPACK_STRING_DECODER_H_