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/*!
Generic helpers for iteration of matches from a regex engine in a haystack.
The principle type in this module is a [`Searcher`]. A `Searcher` provides
its own lower level iterator-like API in addition to methods for constructing
types that implement `Iterator`. The documentation for `Searcher` explains a
bit more about why these different APIs exist.
Currently, this module supports iteration over any regex engine that works
with the [`HalfMatch`], [`Match`] or [`Captures`] types.
*/
use crateCaptures;
use crate;
/// A searcher for creating iterators and performing lower level iteration.
///
/// This searcher encapsulates the logic required for finding all successive
/// non-overlapping matches in a haystack. In theory, iteration would look
/// something like this:
///
/// 1. Setting the start position to `0`.
/// 2. Execute a regex search. If no match, end iteration.
/// 3. Report the match and set the start position to the end of the match.
/// 4. Go back to (2).
///
/// And if this were indeed the case, it's likely that `Searcher` wouldn't
/// exist. Unfortunately, because a regex may match the empty string, the above
/// logic won't work for all possible regexes. Namely, if an empty match is
/// found, then step (3) would set the start position of the search to the
/// position it was at. Thus, iteration would never end.
///
/// Instead, a `Searcher` knows how to detect these cases and forcefully
/// advance iteration in the case of an empty match that overlaps with a
/// previous match.
///
/// If you know that your regex cannot match any empty string, then the simple
/// algorithm described above will work correctly.
///
/// When possible, prefer the iterators defined on the regex engine you're
/// using. This tries to abstract over the regex engine and is thus a bit more
/// unwieldy to use.
///
/// In particular, a `Searcher` is not itself an iterator. Instead, it provides
/// `advance` routines that permit moving the search along explicitly. It also
/// provides various routines, like [`Searcher::into_matches_iter`], that
/// accept a closure (representing how a regex engine executes a search) and
/// returns a conventional iterator.
///
/// The lifetime parameters come from the [`Input`] type passed to
/// [`Searcher::new`]:
///
/// * `'h` is the lifetime of the underlying haystack.
///
/// # Searcher vs Iterator
///
/// Why does a search type with "advance" APIs exist at all when we also have
/// iterators? Unfortunately, the reasoning behind this split is a complex
/// combination of the following things:
///
/// 1. While many of the regex engines expose their own iterators, it is also
/// nice to expose this lower level iteration helper because it permits callers
/// to provide their own `Input` configuration. Moreover, a `Searcher` can work
/// with _any_ regex engine instead of only the ones defined in this crate.
/// This way, everyone benefits from a shared iteration implementation.
/// 2. There are many different regex engines that, while they have the same
/// match semantics, they have slightly different APIs. Iteration is just
/// complex enough to want to share code, and so we need a way of abstracting
/// over those different regex engines. While we could define a new trait that
/// describes any regex engine search API, it would wind up looking very close
/// to a closure. While there may still be reasons for the more generic trait
/// to exist, for now and for the purposes of iteration, we use a closure.
/// Closures also provide a lot of easy flexibility at the call site, in that
/// they permit the caller to borrow any kind of state they want for use during
/// each search call.
/// 3. As a result of using closures, and because closures are anonymous types
/// that cannot be named, it is difficult to encapsulate them without both
/// costs to speed and added complexity to the public API. For example, in
/// defining an iterator type like
/// [`dfa::regex::FindMatches`](crate::dfa::regex::FindMatches),
/// if we use a closure internally, it's not possible to name this type in the
/// return type of the iterator constructor. Thus, the only way around it is
/// to erase the type by boxing it and turning it into a `Box<dyn FnMut ...>`.
/// This boxed closure is unlikely to be inlined _and_ it infects the public
/// API in subtle ways. Namely, unless you declare the closure as implementing
/// `Send` and `Sync`, then the resulting iterator type won't implement it
/// either. But there are practical issues with requiring the closure to
/// implement `Send` and `Sync` that result in other API complexities that
/// are beyond the scope of this already long exposition.
/// 4. Some regex engines expose more complex match information than just
/// "which pattern matched" and "at what offsets." For example, the PikeVM
/// exposes match spans for each capturing group that participated in the
/// match. In such cases, it can be quite beneficial to reuse the capturing
/// group allocation on subsequent searches. A proper iterator doesn't permit
/// this API due to its interface, so it's useful to have something a bit lower
/// level that permits callers to amortize allocations while also reusing a
/// shared implementation of iteration. (See the documentation for
/// [`Searcher::advance`] for an example of using the "advance" API with the
/// PikeVM.)
///
/// What this boils down to is that there are "advance" APIs which require
/// handing a closure to it for every call, and there are also APIs to create
/// iterators from a closure. The former are useful for _implementing_
/// iterators or when you need more flexibility, while the latter are useful
/// for conveniently writing custom iterators on-the-fly.
///
/// # Example: iterating with captures
///
/// Several regex engines in this crate over convenient iterator APIs over
/// [`Captures`] values. To do so, this requires allocating a new `Captures`
/// value for each iteration step. This can perhaps be more costly than you
/// might want. Instead of implementing your own iterator to avoid that
/// cost (which can be a little subtle if you want to handle empty matches
/// correctly), you can use this `Searcher` to do it for you:
///
/// ```
/// use regex_automata::{
/// nfa::thompson::pikevm::PikeVM,
/// util::iter::Searcher,
/// Input, Span,
/// };
///
/// let re = PikeVM::new("foo(?P<numbers>[0-9]+)")?;
/// let haystack = "foo1 foo12 foo123";
///
/// let mut caps = re.create_captures();
/// let mut cache = re.create_cache();
/// let mut matches = vec![];
/// let mut searcher = Searcher::new(Input::new(haystack));
/// while let Some(_) = searcher.advance(|input| {
/// re.search(&mut cache, input, &mut caps);
/// Ok(caps.get_match())
/// }) {
/// // The unwrap is OK since 'numbers' matches if the pattern matches.
/// matches.push(caps.get_group_by_name("numbers").unwrap());
/// }
/// assert_eq!(matches, vec![
/// Span::from(3..4),
/// Span::from(8..10),
/// Span::from(14..17),
/// ]);
///
/// # Ok::<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>>(())
/// ```
/// An iterator over all non-overlapping half matches for a fallible search.
///
/// The iterator yields a `Result<HalfMatch, MatchError>` value until no more
/// matches could be found.
///
/// The type parameters are as follows:
///
/// * `F` represents the type of a closure that executes the search.
///
/// The lifetime parameters come from the [`Input`] type:
///
/// * `'h` is the lifetime of the underlying haystack.
///
/// When possible, prefer the iterators defined on the regex engine you're
/// using. This tries to abstract over the regex engine and is thus a bit more
/// unwieldy to use.
///
/// This iterator is created by [`Searcher::into_half_matches_iter`].
/// An iterator over all non-overlapping half matches for an infallible search.
///
/// The iterator yields a [`HalfMatch`] value until no more matches could be
/// found.
///
/// The type parameters are as follows:
///
/// * `F` represents the type of a closure that executes the search.
///
/// The lifetime parameters come from the [`Input`] type:
///
/// * `'h` is the lifetime of the underlying haystack.
///
/// When possible, prefer the iterators defined on the regex engine you're
/// using. This tries to abstract over the regex engine and is thus a bit more
/// unwieldy to use.
///
/// This iterator is created by [`Searcher::into_half_matches_iter`] and
/// then calling [`TryHalfMatchesIter::infallible`].
;
/// An iterator over all non-overlapping matches for a fallible search.
///
/// The iterator yields a `Result<Match, MatchError>` value until no more
/// matches could be found.
///
/// The type parameters are as follows:
///
/// * `F` represents the type of a closure that executes the search.
///
/// The lifetime parameters come from the [`Input`] type:
///
/// * `'h` is the lifetime of the underlying haystack.
///
/// When possible, prefer the iterators defined on the regex engine you're
/// using. This tries to abstract over the regex engine and is thus a bit more
/// unwieldy to use.
///
/// This iterator is created by [`Searcher::into_matches_iter`].
/// An iterator over all non-overlapping matches for an infallible search.
///
/// The iterator yields a [`Match`] value until no more matches could be found.
///
/// The type parameters are as follows:
///
/// * `F` represents the type of a closure that executes the search.
///
/// The lifetime parameters come from the [`Input`] type:
///
/// * `'h` is the lifetime of the underlying haystack.
///
/// When possible, prefer the iterators defined on the regex engine you're
/// using. This tries to abstract over the regex engine and is thus a bit more
/// unwieldy to use.
///
/// This iterator is created by [`Searcher::into_matches_iter`] and
/// then calling [`TryMatchesIter::infallible`].
;
/// An iterator over all non-overlapping captures for a fallible search.
///
/// The iterator yields a `Result<Captures, MatchError>` value until no more
/// matches could be found.
///
/// The type parameters are as follows:
///
/// * `F` represents the type of a closure that executes the search.
///
/// The lifetime parameters come from the [`Input`] type:
///
/// * `'h` is the lifetime of the underlying haystack.
///
/// When possible, prefer the iterators defined on the regex engine you're
/// using. This tries to abstract over the regex engine and is thus a bit more
/// unwieldy to use.
///
/// This iterator is created by [`Searcher::into_captures_iter`].
/// An iterator over all non-overlapping captures for an infallible search.
///
/// The iterator yields a [`Captures`] value until no more matches could be
/// found.
///
/// The type parameters are as follows:
///
/// * `F` represents the type of a closure that executes the search.
///
/// The lifetime parameters come from the [`Input`] type:
///
/// * `'h` is the lifetime of the underlying haystack.
///
/// When possible, prefer the iterators defined on the regex engine you're
/// using. This tries to abstract over the regex engine and is thus a bit more
/// unwieldy to use.
///
/// This iterator is created by [`Searcher::into_captures_iter`] and then
/// calling [`TryCapturesIter::infallible`].
;