Replaceable
is an abstract base class representing a string of characters that supports the replacement of a range of itself with a new string of characters.
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#include <rep.h>
Inheritance diagram for Replaceable:
Public Member Functions | |
virtual | ~Replaceable () |
Destructor. | |
int32_t | length () const |
Returns the number of 16-bit code units in the text. | |
UChar | charAt (int32_t offset) const |
Returns the 16-bit code unit at the given offset into the text. | |
UChar32 | char32At (int32_t offset) const |
Returns the 32-bit code point at the given 16-bit offset into the text. | |
virtual void | extractBetween (int32_t start, int32_t limit, UnicodeString &target) const=0 |
Copies characters in the range [start , limit ) into the UnicodeString target . | |
virtual void | handleReplaceBetween (int32_t start, int32_t limit, const UnicodeString &text)=0 |
Replaces a substring of this object with the given text. | |
virtual void | copy (int32_t start, int32_t limit, int32_t dest)=0 |
Copies a substring of this object, retaining metadata. | |
virtual UBool | hasMetaData () const |
Returns true if this object contains metadata. | |
virtual Replaceable * | clone () const |
Clone this object, an instance of a subclass of Replaceable. | |
Protected Member Functions | |
Replaceable () | |
Default constructor. | |
virtual int32_t | getLength () const=0 |
Virtual version of length(). | |
virtual UChar | getCharAt (int32_t offset) const=0 |
Virtual version of charAt(). | |
virtual UChar32 | getChar32At (int32_t offset) const=0 |
Virtual version of char32At(). |
Replaceable
is an abstract base class representing a string of characters that supports the replacement of a range of itself with a new string of characters.
It is used by APIs that change a piece of text while retaining metadata. Metadata is data other than the Unicode characters returned by char32At(). One example of metadata is style attributes; another is an edit history, marking each character with an author and revision number.
An implicit aspect of the Replaceable
API is that during a replace operation, new characters take on the metadata of the old characters. For example, if the string "the bold font" has range (4, 8) replaced with "strong", then it becomes "the strong font".
Replaceable
specifies ranges using a start offset and a limit offset. The range of characters thus specified includes the characters at offset start..limit-1. That is, the start offset is inclusive, and the limit offset is exclusive.
Replaceable
also includes API to access characters in the string: length()
, charAt()
, char32At()
, and extractBetween()
.
For a subclass to support metadata, typical behavior of replace()
is the following:
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Destructor. ICU 2.0 |
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Default constructor. ICU 2.4 |
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Returns the 32-bit code point at the given 16-bit offset into the text. This assumes the text is stored as 16-bit code units with surrogate pairs intermixed. If the offset of a leading or trailing code unit of a surrogate pair is given, return the code point of the surrogate pair.
Reimplemented in UnicodeString. |
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Returns the 16-bit code unit at the given offset into the text.
Reimplemented in UnicodeString. |
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Clone this object, an instance of a subclass of Replaceable. Clones can be used concurrently in multiple threads. If a subclass does not implement clone(), or if an error occurs, then NULL is returned. The clone functions in all subclasses return a pointer to a Replaceable because some compilers do not support covariant (same-as-this) return types; cast to the appropriate subclass if necessary. The caller must delete the clone.
Reimplemented in UnicodeString. |
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Copies a substring of this object, retaining metadata. This method is used to duplicate or reorder substrings. The destination index must not overlap the source range.
Implemented in UnicodeString. |
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Copies characters in the range [
Implemented in UnicodeString. |
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Virtual version of char32At(). ICU 2.4 Implemented in UnicodeString. |
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Virtual version of charAt(). ICU 2.4 Implemented in UnicodeString. |
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Virtual version of length(). ICU 2.4 Implemented in UnicodeString. |
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Replaces a substring of this object with the given text. If the characters being replaced have metadata, the new characters that replace them should be given the same metadata. Subclasses must ensure that if the text between start and limit is equal to the replacement text, that replace has no effect. That is, any metadata should be unaffected. In addition, subclasses are encouraged to check for initial and trailing identical characters, and make a smaller replacement if possible. This will preserve as much metadata as possible.
Implemented in UnicodeString. |
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Returns true if this object contains metadata. If a Replaceable object has metadata, calls to the Replaceable API must be made so as to preserve metadata. If it does not, calls to the Replaceable API may be optimized to improve performance. The default implementation returns true.
Reimplemented in UnicodeString. |
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Returns the number of 16-bit code units in the text.
Reimplemented in UnicodeString. |