Character string indexer API

src/char_str_indexer.h

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+/****************************************************************************
+ * DNA sequence indexer header file	                                        *
+ ****************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+ * @file dna_seq_indexer.h
+ * @author Celine Mercier
+ * @date April 12th 2016
+ * @brief Header file for the functions handling the indexing of DNA sequences.
+ */
+
+
+#ifndef CHAR_STR_INDEXER_H_
+#define CHAR_STR_INDEXER_H_
+
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include "obitypes.h"
+#include "obiblob.h"
+#include "obiblob_indexer.h"
+
+
+/**
+ * @brief Converts a character string to a blob.
+ *
+ * @warning The blob must be freed by the caller.
+ *
+ * @param value The character string to convert.
+ *
+ * @returns A pointer to the blob created.
+ * @retval NULL if an error occurred.
+ *
+ * @since October 2015
+ * @author Celine Mercier (celine.mercier@metabarcoding.org)
+ */
+Obi_blob_p obi_str_to_blob(char* value);
+
+
+/**
+ * @brief Converts a blob to a character string.
+ *
+ * @param value_b The blob to convert.
+ *
+ * @returns A pointer to the character string contained in the blob.
+ *
+ * @since October 2015
+ * @author Celine Mercier (celine.mercier@metabarcoding.org)
+ */
+const char* obi_blob_to_str(Obi_blob_p value_b);
+
+
+// TODO doc
+index_t obi_index_char_str(Obi_indexer_p indexer, const char* value);
+
+char* obi_retrieve_char_str(Obi_indexer_p indexer, index_t idx);
+
+
+#endif /* CHAR_STR_INDEXER_H_ */
+