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Comment:Updated sqlite_encode_binary() comments with tighter bounds on output length. (CVS 1023)
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User & Date: jplyon 2003-06-15 10:35:05.000
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2003-06-15
23:42
Enhance the "PRAGMA integrity_check" command to verify that all indices are correctly constructed. New calls to integrity_check are made in the test suite. These changes are intended to prevent any future problems such as seen in ticket #334. (CVS 1024) (check-in: c9734c2707 user: drh tags: trunk)
10:35
Updated sqlite_encode_binary() comments with tighter bounds on output length. (CVS 1023) (check-in: 826aab43d5 user: jplyon tags: trunk)
10:29
Documented integer values used by PRAGMAs. Fixed missing end tags in generated anchors. (CVS 1022) (check-in: 6c24dfbae5 user: jplyon tags: trunk)
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*************************************************************************
** This file contains helper routines used to translate binary data into
** a null-terminated string (suitable for use in SQLite) and back again.
** These are convenience routines for use by people who want to store binary
** data in an SQLite database.  The code in this file is not used by any other
** part of the SQLite library.
**
** $Id: encode.c,v 1.6 2003/05/10 03:36:54 drh Exp $
*/
#include <string.h>

/*
** How This Encoder Works
**
** The output is allowed to contain any character except 0x27 (') and







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*************************************************************************
** This file contains helper routines used to translate binary data into
** a null-terminated string (suitable for use in SQLite) and back again.
** These are convenience routines for use by people who want to store binary
** data in an SQLite database.  The code in this file is not used by any other
** part of the SQLite library.
**
** $Id: encode.c,v 1.7 2003/06/15 10:35:05 jplyon Exp $
*/
#include <string.h>

/*
** How This Encoder Works
**
** The output is allowed to contain any character except 0x27 (') and
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** it could double the size of the encoded string.  For example, to
** encode a string of 100 0x27 character would require 100 instances of
** the 0x01 0x03 escape sequence resulting in a 200-character output.
** We would prefer to keep the size of the encoded string smaller than
** this.
**
** To minimize the encoding size, we first add a fixed offset value to each 
** byte in the sequence.  The addition is module 256.  (That is to say, if
** the sum of the original character value and the offset exceeds 256, then
** the higher order bits are truncated.)  The offset is chosen to minimize
** the number of characters in the string that need to be escaped.  For
** example, in the case above where the string was composed of 100 0x27
** characters, the offset might be 0x01.  Each of the 0x27 characters would
** then be converted into an 0x28 character which would not need to be
** escaped at all and so the 100 character input string would be converted







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** it could double the size of the encoded string.  For example, to
** encode a string of 100 0x27 character would require 100 instances of
** the 0x01 0x03 escape sequence resulting in a 200-character output.
** We would prefer to keep the size of the encoded string smaller than
** this.
**
** To minimize the encoding size, we first add a fixed offset value to each 
** byte in the sequence.  The addition is modulo 256.  (That is to say, if
** the sum of the original character value and the offset exceeds 256, then
** the higher order bits are truncated.)  The offset is chosen to minimize
** the number of characters in the string that need to be escaped.  For
** example, in the case above where the string was composed of 100 0x27
** characters, the offset might be 0x01.  Each of the 0x27 characters would
** then be converted into an 0x28 character which would not need to be
** escaped at all and so the 100 character input string would be converted
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**     (6)   Convert each 0x01 0x01 sequence into a single character 0x00.
**           Convert 0x01 0x02 into 0x01.  Convert 0x01 0x03 into 0x27.
**
**     (7)   Subtract the offset value that was the first character of
**           the encoded buffer from all characters in the output buffer.
**
** The only tricky part is step (1) - how to compute an offset value to
** minimize the size of the output buffer.  This is accomplished to testing
** all offset values and picking the one that results in the fewest number
** of escapes.  To do that, we first scan the entire input and count the
** number of occurances of each character value in the input.  Suppose
** the number of 0x00 characters is N(0), the number of occurances of 0x01
** is N(1), and so forth up to the number of occurances of 0xff is N(256).
** An offset of 0 is not allowed so we don't have to test it.  The number
** of escapes required for an offset of 1 is N(1)+N(2)+N(40).  The number
** of escapes required for an offset of 2 is N(2)+N(3)+N(41).  And so forth.
** In this way we find the offset that gives the minimum number of escapes,
** and thus minimizes the length of the output string.
*/

/*
** Encode a binary buffer "in" of size n bytes so that it contains
** no instances of characters '\'' or '\000'.  The output is 
** null-terminated and can be used as a string value in an INSERT
** or UPDATE statement.  Use sqlite_decode_binary() to convert the
** string back into its original binary.
**
** The result is written into a preallocated output buffer "out".
** "out" must be able to hold at least (256*n + 1262)/253 bytes.
** In other words, the output will be expanded by as much as 3
** bytes for every 253 bytes of input plus 2 bytes of fixed overhead.
** (This is approximately 2 + 1.019*n or about a 2% size increase.)
**
** The return value is the number of characters in the encoded
** string, excluding the "\000" terminator.
*/
int sqlite_encode_binary(const unsigned char *in, int n, unsigned char *out){
  int i, j, e, m;
  int cnt[256];







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**     (6)   Convert each 0x01 0x01 sequence into a single character 0x00.
**           Convert 0x01 0x02 into 0x01.  Convert 0x01 0x03 into 0x27.
**
**     (7)   Subtract the offset value that was the first character of
**           the encoded buffer from all characters in the output buffer.
**
** The only tricky part is step (1) - how to compute an offset value to
** minimize the size of the output buffer.  This is accomplished by testing
** all offset values and picking the one that results in the fewest number
** of escapes.  To do that, we first scan the entire input and count the
** number of occurances of each character value in the input.  Suppose
** the number of 0x00 characters is N(0), the number of occurances of 0x01
** is N(1), and so forth up to the number of occurances of 0xff is N(256).
** An offset of 0 is not allowed so we don't have to test it.  The number
** of escapes required for an offset of 1 is N(1)+N(2)+N(40).  The number
** of escapes required for an offset of 2 is N(2)+N(3)+N(41).  And so forth.
** In this way we find the offset that gives the minimum number of escapes,
** and thus minimizes the length of the output string.
*/

/*
** Encode a binary buffer "in" of size n bytes so that it contains
** no instances of characters '\'' or '\000'.  The output is 
** null-terminated and can be used as a string value in an INSERT
** or UPDATE statement.  Use sqlite_decode_binary() to convert the
** string back into its original binary.
**
** The result is written into a preallocated output buffer "out".
** "out" must be able to hold at least 2 +(257*n)/254 bytes.
** In other words, the output will be expanded by as much as 3
** bytes for every 254 bytes of input plus 2 bytes of fixed overhead.
** (This is approximately 2 + 1.0118*n or about a 1.2% size increase.)
**
** The return value is the number of characters in the encoded
** string, excluding the "\000" terminator.
*/
int sqlite_encode_binary(const unsigned char *in, int n, unsigned char *out){
  int i, j, e, m;
  int cnt[256];
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  }
  out[j] = 0;
  return j;
}

/*
** Decode the string "in" into binary data and write it into "out".
** This routine reverses the encoded created by sqlite_encode_binary().
** The output will always be a few bytes less than the input.  The number
** of bytes of output is returned.  If the input is not a well-formed
** encoding, -1 is returned.
**
** The "in" and "out" parameters may point to the same buffer in order
** to decode a string in place.
*/







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  }
  out[j] = 0;
  return j;
}

/*
** Decode the string "in" into binary data and write it into "out".
** This routine reverses the encoding created by sqlite_encode_binary().
** The output will always be a few bytes less than the input.  The number
** of bytes of output is returned.  If the input is not a well-formed
** encoding, -1 is returned.
**
** The "in" and "out" parameters may point to the same buffer in order
** to decode a string in place.
*/