tracing v2: building blocks for reading-back trace protobufs

components/tracing/core/proto_utils.h

 // 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 COMPONENTS_TRACING_CORE_PROTO_UTILS_H_
 #define COMPONENTS_TRACING_CORE_PROTO_UTILS_H_
 
 #include <inttypes.h>
 
 #include <type_traits>
 
 #include "base/logging.h"
+#include "components/tracing/tracing_export.h"
 
 namespace tracing {
 namespace v2 {
 namespace proto {
 
 // See https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding wire types.
 
-enum : uint32_t {
+enum FieldType : uint32_t {
   kFieldTypeVarInt = 0,
   kFieldTypeFixed64 = 1,
   kFieldTypeLengthDelimited = 2,
   kFieldTypeFixed32 = 5,
 };
 
 // Maximum message size supported: 256 MiB (4 x 7-bit due to varint encoding).
 constexpr size_t kMessageLengthFieldSize = 4;
 constexpr size_t kMaxMessageLength = (1u << (kMessageLengthFieldSize * 7)) - 1;
 
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   }
   DCHECK_EQ(0u, value) << "Message is too long";
 }
 
 template <uint32_t field_id>
 void StaticAssertSingleBytePreamble() {
   static_assert(field_id < 16,
                 "Proto field id too big to fit in a single byte preamble");
 };
 
+// Parses a VarInt. Supports both canonical and redundant encoding.
+// Returns a pointer to the next unconsumed byte, that is, one byte past the
+// end of the VarInt.
+TRACING_EXPORT const uint8_t* ParseVarInt(const uint8_t* start,
+                                          const uint8_t* end,

[kraynov, 2016/09/02 16:06:49]

You use STL-style when defined ContinuousMemoryRange where end means one byte
past the last byte.

[Primiano Tucci (use gerrit), 2016/09/02 16:54:59]

The same thing is here (unless I screwed something, which is not WAI). I should
probably add a comment.

+                                          uint64_t* value);
+
+// Parses a protobuf field, returning its id, type and value.
+// Returns a pointer to the next unconsumed byte (|start| < retval <= end).
+// In the case of a kFieldTypeLengthDelimited field, |field_intvalue| will
+// contain the field payload (either a string or a nested message) and the
+// return value will point to the first byte of the field payload.
+TRACING_EXPORT const uint8_t* ParseField(const uint8_t* start,
+                                         const uint8_t* end,
+                                         uint32_t* field_id,
+                                         FieldType* field_type,
+                                         uint64_t* field_intvalue);
+
 }  // namespace proto
 }  // namespace v2
 }  // namespace tracing
 
 #endif  // COMPONENTS_TRACING_CORE_PROTO_UTILS_H_