// Copyright (c) 2011 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. // This file defines utility functions for escaping strings suitable for JSON. #ifndef BASE_JSON_STRING_ESCAPE_H_ #define BASE_JSON_STRING_ESCAPE_H_ #include <string> #include "base/base_export.h" #include "base/strings/string_piece.h" namespace base { // Appends to |dest| an escaped version of |str|. Valid UTF-8 code units will // pass through from the input to the output. Invalid code units will be // replaced with the U+FFFD replacement character. This function returns true // if no replacement was necessary and false if there was a lossy replacement. // On return, |dest| will contain a valid UTF-8 JSON string. // // Non-printing control characters will be escaped as \uXXXX sequences for // readability. // // If |put_in_quotes| is true, then a leading and trailing double-quote mark // will be appended to |dest| as well. BASE_EXPORT bool EscapeJSONString(const StringPiece& str, bool put_in_quotes, std::string* dest); // Performs a similar function to the UTF-8 StringPiece version above, // converting UTF-16 code units to UTF-8 code units and escaping non-printing // control characters. On return, |dest| will contain a valid UTF-8 JSON string. BASE_EXPORT bool EscapeJSONString(const StringPiece16& str, bool put_in_quotes, std::string* dest); // Helper functions that wrap the above two functions but return the value // instead of appending. |put_in_quotes| is always true. BASE_EXPORT std::string GetQuotedJSONString(const StringPiece& str); BASE_EXPORT std::string GetQuotedJSONString(const StringPiece16& str); // Given an arbitrary byte string |str|, this will escape all non-ASCII bytes // as \uXXXX escape sequences. This function is *NOT* meant to be used with // Unicode strings and does not validate |str| as one. // // CAVEAT CALLER: The output of this function may not be valid JSON, since // JSON requires escape sequences to be valid UTF-16 code units. This output // will be mangled if passed to to the base::JSONReader, since the reader will // interpret it as UTF-16 and convert it to UTF-8. // // The output of this function takes the *appearance* of JSON but is not in // fact valid according to RFC 4627. BASE_EXPORT std::string EscapeBytesAsInvalidJSONString(const StringPiece& str, bool put_in_quotes); } // namespace base #endif // BASE_JSON_STRING_ESCAPE_H_