Updating dependent libraries, docs, utility usage

.github/workflows/gen_docs.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: run-doxygen
-        uses: mattnotmitt/doxygen-action@v1.9.8
+        uses: mattnotmitt/doxygen-action@v1.12.0
         with:
           working-directory: doc
       - name: deploy-pages

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2024 by Cliff Green
+# Copyright (c) 2024-2025 by Cliff Green
 #
 # https://github.com/connectivecpp/shared-buffer
 #

README.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 The `shared_buffer` classes are reference counted `std::byte` buffer classes useful for asynchronous networking. In particular, the Asio asynchronous networking library requires a buffer to be kept alive and valid until the outstanding IO operation (e.g. a network write) is completed. A straightforward and idiomatic way to achieve this is by using reference counted buffers.
 
-There are two classes - `const_shared_buffer` for outgoing buffers (which should not be modified), and `mutable_shared_buffer` for incoming buffers (mutable and expandable as data arrives). There are efficient (move) operations for creating a `const_shared_buffer` from a `mutable_shared_buffer`, which allows the use case of creating a message and serializing its contents, then sending it out over the network.
+There are two classes - `const_shared_buffer` for outgoing buffers (which should not be modified), and `mutable_shared_buffer` for incoming buffers (mutable and expandable as data arrives). In addition there are efficient (move) operations for creating a `const_shared_buffer` from a `mutable_shared_buffer`. This allows the following use common networking use case: create a `mutable_shared_buffer`, serialize objects into it, then (efficiently) construct a `const_shared_buffer` and send it out over the network.
 
 While internally all data is kept in `std::byte` buffers, convenience methods are provided for converting between traditional buffer types (such as `char *` or `unsigned char*` or similar).
 

cmake/download_cpm.cmake

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 file(
   DOWNLOAD
-  https://github.com/cpm-cmake/CPM.cmake/releases/download/v0.39.0/CPM.cmake
+  https://github.com/cpm-cmake/CPM.cmake/releases/download/v0.40.0/CPM.cmake
   ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/cmake/CPM.cmake
 )
 include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/cmake/CPM.cmake)

example/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2024 by Cliff Green
+# Copyright (c) 2024-2025 by Cliff Green
 #
 # Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
 # (See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or copy at https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ project ( shared_buffer_example LANGUAGES CXX )
 # add dependencies
 include ( ../cmake/download_cpm.cmake )
 
-CPMAddPackage ( "gh:connectivecpp/utility-rack@1.0.0" )
-CPMAddPackage ( "gh:connectivecpp/binary-serialize@1.0.0" )
+CPMAddPackage ( "gh:connectivecpp/utility-rack@1.0.5" )
+CPMAddPackage ( "gh:connectivecpp/binary-serialize@1.0.4" )
 
 # add executable
 add_executable ( shared_buffer_example shared_buffer_example.cpp )

example/shared_buffer_example.cpp

@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 /** @file
  *  
- *  @brief Example code demonstrating use of @c chops::shared_buffer and
- *  @c chops::repeat. See @c threaded_wait_shared_demo.cpp for multithreaded
- *  example.
+ *  @brief Example code demonstrating use of @c chops::shared_buffer.
+ *  See @c threaded_wait_shared_demo.cpp for multithreaded example.
  * 
  *  @author Thurman Gillespy
  * 
  *  @copyright (c) 2019 by Thurman Gillespy
  *  3/22/19
  *
+ *  Minor changes 4/3/2025 by Cliff Green (change repeat to iota, append now has endian flag).
+ *
  *  Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 
  *  (See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
  * 
@@ -25,10 +26,11 @@
 #include <cstddef> // std::byte
 #include <cstdint> // std::uint16_t
 #include <string>
+#include <cstring> // std::strlen
+#include <ranges> // std::views::iota
 
 #include "serialize/extract_append.hpp"
 #include "buffer/shared_buffer.hpp"
-#include "utility/repeat.hpp"
 
 // tasty utility lambda function
 constexpr auto printLn = [] () { std::cout << std::endl; };
@@ -55,17 +57,18 @@ int main() {
     constexpr char str1[] = "A cat in the hat.";
     const char* strptr = str1;
 
-    // add one char at a time, inside chops::repeat
-    chops::repeat(sizeof(str1),
-        [&] () { buf1.append(static_cast<std::byte> (*strptr++)); });
+    // add one char at a time
+    for (int i : std::views::iota(0u, std::strlen(strptr) + 1)) {
+        buf1.append(static_cast<std::byte> (*strptr++));
+    }
 
-    // what str1 and chops::repeat replaces
+    // what str1 and the loop replaces
     // buf1.append(static_cast<std::byte>('A');
     // buf1.append((static_cast<std::byte>(' ');
     // buf1.append((static_cast<std::byte>('c');
     // etc. 
 
-    std::cout << "buffer1 contains " << buf1.size() << " bytes" << std::endl;
+    std::cout << "buffer1 contains (including trailing nul char) " << buf1.size() << " bytes" << std::endl;
     // print the output, one char at a time
     const char* byte = cast_to_char_ptr (buf1); // data starts here
     for (unsigned int i = 0; i <  buf1.size(); ++i) {
@@ -90,29 +93,37 @@ int main() {
     std::cout << "buffer2 contains " << buf2.size() << " bytes and ";
     std::cout << (buf2.size()/sizeof(std::uint16_t)) << " short integers\n";
 
-    // input some numbers using chops::repeat
+    // input some numbers
     const std::uint16_t* data = cast_to_uint16_ptr (buf2);// data starts here
-    std::uint16_t* valptr = const_cast<std::uint16_t*>(data); // remove const*
 
     // create number, convert to 'network' (big endian) byte order, place into buf2
     std::uint16_t count = 1;
-    chops::repeat(NUM_INTS, [count, x = buf2.data()] () mutable {auto sz =
-        chops::append_val <std::uint16_t> (x, count++ * 5); x += sz; });
+    auto x = buf2.data();
+    for (int i : std::views::iota(0, NUM_INTS)) {
+        auto sz = chops::append_val <std::endian::big, std::uint16_t> (x, count++ * 5);
+	x += sz;
+    }
 
     // print them out
-    valptr = const_cast<std::uint16_t*> (data);
-    // read 2 bytes, convert back to proper endian order, print
-    auto f = [x = buf2.data()] () mutable { std::cout << chops::extract_val<std::uint16_t>(x) << " "; x+=2;};
-    chops::repeat(NUM_INTS, f);
+    // read 2 bytes, convert back to native endian order, print
+    x = buf2.data();
+    for (int i : std::views::iota(0, NUM_INTS)) {
+        std::cout << chops::extract_val<std::endian::native, std::uint16_t>(x) << " ";
+	x+=2;
+    }
+
     printLn();
 
     // swap the buffers, print result
     buf2.swap(buf1);
     std::cout << "buffer2 contents after swap" << std::endl;
     std::cout << cast_to_char_ptr (buf2) << std::endl;
     std::cout << "buffer1 contents after swap" << std::endl;
-    valptr = const_cast<std::uint16_t*> (data);
-    chops::repeat(NUM_INTS, f); 
+    x = buf1.data();
+    for (int i : std::views::iota(0, NUM_INTS)) {
+        std::cout << chops::extract_val<std::endian::native, std::uint16_t>(x) << " ";
+	x+=2;
+    }
     printLn();
 
     return EXIT_SUCCESS;

include/buffer/shared_buffer.hpp

@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@
  * convenience methods for appending data. @c const_shared_buffer is a reference counted 
  * non-modifiable buffer class. Once the object is constructed, it cannot be modified. 
  *
- * A @c const_shared_buffer can be efficiently constructed (no buffer copies) from a 
- * @c mutable shared_buffer. This allows the use case of serializing data into a 
- * @c mutable_shared_buffer then constructing a @c const_shared_buffer for writing to
- * the network.
+ * A @c const_shared_buffer can be efficiently constructed (no buffer copies, only
+ * pointer assignments through move construction) from a @c mutable shared_buffer. This 
+ * allows the use case of serializing data into a @c mutable_shared_buffer then 
+ * constructing a @c const_shared_buffer for writing to the network.
  *
  * Besides the data buffer lifetime management, these utility classes eliminate data 
- * copies and (obviously) do not have to be used only in networking use cases.
+ * copies and (obviously) can be utilized in use cases other than networking.
  *
  * ### Additional Details
  *
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
  *
  * @authors Cliff Green, Chris Kohlhoff
  *
- * @copyright (c) 2017-2024 by Cliff Green
+ * @copyright (c) 2017-2025 by Cliff Green
  *
  * Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 
  * (See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

test/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2024 by Cliff Green
+# Copyright (c) 2024-2025 by Cliff Green
 #
 # Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
 # (See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or copy at https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ target_compile_features ( shared_buffer_test PRIVATE cxx_std_20 )
 include ( ../cmake/download_cpm.cmake )
 
 CPMAddPackage ( "gh:catchorg/Catch2@3.8.0" )
-CPMAddPackage ( "gh:connectivecpp/utility-rack@1.0.4" )
+CPMAddPackage ( "gh:connectivecpp/utility-rack@1.0.5" )
 
 # link dependencies
 target_link_libraries ( shared_buffer_test PRIVATE shared_buffer utility_rack Catch2::Catch2WithMain )

test/shared_buffer_test.cpp

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *
  * @author Cliff Green
  *
- * @copyright (c) 2017-2024 by Cliff Green
+ * @copyright (c) 2017-2025 by Cliff Green
  *
  * Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 
  * (See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
 #include <array>
 #include <algorithm> // std::copy
 #include <bit> // std::bit_cast
+#include <ranges> // std::views::iota
 
 #include "buffer/shared_buffer.hpp"
 
-#include "utility/repeat.hpp"
 #include "utility/byte_array.hpp"
 
 constexpr std::size_t test_data_size { 12u };
@@ -203,15 +203,16 @@ TEST_CASE ( "Mutable shared buffer resize and clear",
 
   sb.resize(N);
   REQUIRE (sb.size() == N);
-  chops::repeat(N, [&sb] (int i) { REQUIRE (std::to_integer<int>(*(sb.data() + i)) == 0 ); } );
-
+  for (int i : std::views::iota(0, N)) {
+    REQUIRE (std::to_integer<int>(*(sb.data() + i)) == 0 ); 
+  }
   SECTION ( "Compare two resized mutable shared buffer with same size" ) {
     chops::mutable_shared_buffer sb2(N);
     REQUIRE (sb == sb2);
-    chops::repeat(N, [&sb, &sb2] (int i) {
+    for (int i : std::views::iota(0, N)) {
       REQUIRE (std::to_integer<int>(*(sb.data() + i)) == 0 );
       REQUIRE (std::to_integer<int>(*(sb2.data() + i)) == 0 );
-    } );
+    }
   }
   SECTION ( "Clear, check size" ) {
     sb.clear();