From f225e4d9567118fdb0209a4bc8dfdfe76cb85ae0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:32:56 +0000
Subject: add GNUNET_STRINGS_data_to_string_alloc from TALER

---
 src/include/gnunet_strings_lib.h | 15 ++++++++++++++
 src/util/strings.c               | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/include/gnunet_strings_lib.h b/src/include/gnunet_strings_lib.h
index c7d16c947..387f3a135 100644
--- a/src/include/gnunet_strings_lib.h
+++ b/src/include/gnunet_strings_lib.h
@@ -296,6 +296,21 @@ GNUNET_STRINGS_data_to_string (const void *data,
 			       size_t out_size);
 
 
+/**
+ * Return the base32crockford encoding of the given buffer.
+ *
+ * The returned string will be freshly allocated, and must be free'd
+ * with #GNUNET_free().
+ *
+ * @param buffer with data
+ * @param size size of the buffer
+ * @return freshly allocated, null-terminated string
+ */
+char *
+GNUNET_STRINGS_data_to_string_alloc (const void *buf,
+                                     size_t size);
+
+
 /**
  * Convert Base32hex encoding back to data.
  * @a out_size must match exactly the size of the data before it was encoded.
diff --git a/src/util/strings.c b/src/util/strings.c
index ba1a91641..3700a7af9 100644
--- a/src/util/strings.c
+++ b/src/util/strings.c
@@ -846,10 +846,13 @@ getValue__ (unsigned char a)
  * @param out buffer to fill
  * @param out_size size of the buffer. Must be large enough to hold
  * (size * 8 + 4) / 5 bytes
- * @return pointer to the next byte in 'out' or NULL on error.
+ * @return pointer to the next byte in @a out or NULL on error.
  */
 char *
-GNUNET_STRINGS_data_to_string (const void *data, size_t size, char *out, size_t out_size)
+GNUNET_STRINGS_data_to_string (const void *data,
+                               size_t size,
+                               char *out,
+                               size_t out_size)
 {
   /**
    * 32 characters for encoding
@@ -861,8 +864,6 @@ GNUNET_STRINGS_data_to_string (const void *data, size_t size, char *out, size_t
   unsigned int vbit;
   const unsigned char *udata;
 
-  GNUNET_assert (data != NULL);
-  GNUNET_assert (out != NULL);
   udata = data;
   if (out_size < (size * 8 + 4) / 5)
   {
@@ -901,6 +902,39 @@ GNUNET_STRINGS_data_to_string (const void *data, size_t size, char *out, size_t
 }
 
 
+/**
+ * Return the base32crockford encoding of the given buffer.
+ *
+ * The returned string will be freshly allocated, and must be free'd
+ * with GNUNET_free().
+ *
+ * @param buffer with data
+ * @param size size of the buffer
+ * @return freshly allocated, null-terminated string
+ */
+char *
+GNUNET_STRINGS_data_to_string_alloc (const void *buf,
+                                     size_t size)
+{
+  char *str_buf;
+  size_t len = size * 8;
+  char *end;
+
+  if (len % 5 > 0)
+    len += 5 - len % 5;
+  len /= 5;
+  str_buf = GNUNET_malloc (len + 1);
+  end = GNUNET_STRINGS_data_to_string (buf, size, str_buf, len);
+  if (NULL == end)
+  {
+    GNUNET_free (str_buf);
+    return NULL;
+  }
+  *end = '\0';
+  return str_buf;
+}
+
+
 /**
  * Convert Crockford Base32hex encoding back to data.
  * @a out_size must match exactly the size of the data before it was encoded.
-- 
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