diff -r 000000000000 -r e4d67989cc36 utilitylibraries/libutils/src/stringtodescriptor8.cpp
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+++ b/utilitylibraries/libutils/src/stringtodescriptor8.cpp	Tue Feb 02 02:01:42 2010 +0200
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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2008 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+* All rights reserved.
+* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+* which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+*
+* Initial Contributors:
+* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+*
+* Contributors:
+*
+* Description:   Contains the source for string to Descriptor8 conversions
+ *
+*/
+
+
+
+#include "libutils.h"
+  
+
+
+ /**
+   * Converts a string to a descriptor of type TBuf8
+   *
+   * @param aSrc is the string to be converted , aDes is the 
+   * reference to the descriptor where the result of conversion 
+   * is stored
+   * @return Status code (0 is ESuccess, -1 is EInsufficientMemory, 
+   * -3 is EStringNoData)
+   */
+
+EXPORT_C  int StringToTbuf8(string& aSrc, TDes8& aDes)
+{
+    const char* charString = aSrc.c_str();
+    
+    if('\0' == charString[0])
+    {
+    	return EStringNoData;
+    }
+    
+    if (aDes.MaxLength() < strlen(charString))
+    {
+    	return EInsufficientMemory;
+    }
+    
+	aDes = (const TUint8*)(charString);
+	     
+	return ESuccess;
+}
+
+ /**
+   * Converts a string to a descriptor of type Tptrc8
+   *
+   * @param aSrc is the string to be converted , aDes is the 
+   * reference to the descriptor where the result of conversion 
+   * is stored
+   * @return Status code (0 is ESuccess, -1 is EInsufficientMemory, 
+   * -3 is EStringNoData)
+   */
+
+EXPORT_C int StringToTptrc8(string& aSrc, TPtrC8& aDes)
+{    
+    const char* charString = aSrc.c_str();
+    if ('\0' == charString[0])
+    {
+        return EStringNoData;
+    }
+  
+    aDes.Set(TPtrC8((TUint8 *)(charString)));
+    
+    return ESuccess; 
+} 
+
+ /**
+   * Converts a string to a descriptor of type TPtr8
+   *
+   * @param aSrc is the string to be converted , aDes is the 
+   * reference to the descriptor where the result of conversion 
+   * is stored
+   * @return Status code (0 is ESuccess, -3 is EStringNoData)
+   */
+
+EXPORT_C  int StringToTptr8 (string& aSrc, TPtr8& aDes)
+{
+    const char* charString = aSrc.c_str();
+    
+    if ('\0' == charString[0])
+    {
+    	return EStringNoData;
+    }
+    
+    unsigned int ilen = strlen(charString);
+    unsigned int ideslen = aDes.MaxLength();
+    if(ilen > ideslen)
+    {
+        return EInsufficientMemory;
+    }
+    
+    aDes.Set((unsigned char *)charString, ilen, ideslen);
+	
+  	return ESuccess;	
+} 
+
+ /**
+   * Converts a string to a descriptor of type HBufc8
+   *
+   * @param aSrc is the string to be converted , aDes is the 
+   * reference to the descriptor where the result of conversion 
+   * is stored 
+   * @return Status code (0 is ESuccess, -1 is EInsufficientMemory, 
+   * -3 is EStringNoData , -5 is EUSENEWMAXL )
+   */
+
+EXPORT_C int StringToHbufc8(string& aSrc , HBufC8* aDes)
+{
+    unsigned int ilendes = 0;
+     
+    const char* charString = aSrc.c_str();
+    if ('\0' == charString[0])
+    {
+    	return EStringNoData;
+    }
+    else if (!aDes)
+    {
+    	return EInvalidPointer;
+    }
+	
+	ilendes = aDes->Length();
+	if(0 == ilendes)
+	{
+		return EUseNewMaxL;
+	}
+	
+	if (ilendes < strlen(charString))
+	{
+		return EInsufficientMemory;
+	}
+	
+	*aDes = (const TUint8*)charString;
+	return ESuccess;
+}
+
+ /**
+   * Converts a string to a descriptor of type RBuf8
+   *
+   * @param aSrc is the string to be converted , aDes is the 
+   * reference to the descriptor where the result of conversion 
+   * is stored
+   * @return Status code (0 is ESuccess,-3 is EStringNoData)
+   */  
+
+EXPORT_C int StringToRbuf8(const string& aSrc, RBuf8& aDes)
+{
+    int retval = ESuccess;
+    const char* charString = aSrc.c_str();
+    if ('\0' == charString[0])
+    {
+        return EStringNoData;
+    }
+    
+    int ilen = strlen(charString);
+    
+    if (KErrNone == aDes.Create(ilen))
+    {
+    	aDes.Copy((const unsigned char *)charString, ilen);	
+    }
+	else 
+	{
+        retval = EInsufficientSystemMemory;	
+	}
+	
+	return retval;
+}