Refactored string literal generation and updated identityToString format

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cpp/src/Slice/Util.h b/cpp/src/Slice/Util.h
index fdf84a1290e..5b23acf389c 100644
--- a/cpp/src/Slice/Util.h
+++ b/cpp/src/Slice/Util.h
@@ -37,6 +37,22 @@ std::vector<std::string> argvToArgs(int argc, char* argv[]);
 #endif
 
 
+enum EscapeMode { UCN, Octal, ShortUCN, EC6UCN };
+
+// Parameters:
+// const string& value: input string provided by Slice Parser
+// const string& nonPrintableEscaped: which of \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, \0 (null), \x20 (\s), \x1b (\e) are
+//                                    escaped in the target language
+//                                    Warning: don't include \0 if the target language recognizes octal escapes
+// const string& printableEscaped: additional printable ASCII characters other than \ and " that need to be escaped
+// EscapeMode escapeMode: whether we generate both UCNs, octal escape sequences, only short UCNs (\unnnn),
+//                        or ECMAScript 6-style UCNs with \u{...} for astral characters
+// unsigned char cutOff: characters < cutOff other than the nonPrintableEscaped are generated as
+//                       octal escape sequences, regardless of escapeMode.
+std::string
+toStringLiteral(const std::string&, const std::string&, const std::string&, EscapeMode, unsigned char);
+
+
 class DependOutputUtil : IceUtil::noncopyable
 {
 public: