Merge pull request #3213 from henricm/fix-for-win-securestring-to-bstr
[mono.git] / mcs / class / corlib / Mono / SafeStringMarshal.cs
1 //
2 // Safe wrapper for a string and its UTF8 encoding
3 //
4 // Authors:
5 //   Aleksey Kliger <aleksey@xamarin.com>
6 //   Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera@xamarin.com>
7 //
8 // Copyright 2016 Dot net foundation.
9 // Licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE file in the project root for full license information.
10 //
11
12 using System;
13 using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
14
15 namespace Mono  {
16         internal struct SafeStringMarshal : IDisposable {
17                 readonly string str;
18                 IntPtr marshaled_string;
19
20                 [MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)]
21                 public extern static IntPtr StringToUtf8 (string str);
22
23                 [MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)]
24                 public extern static void GFree (IntPtr ptr);
25
26                 public SafeStringMarshal (string str) {
27                         this.str = str;
28                         this.marshaled_string = IntPtr.Zero;
29                 }
30
31                 public IntPtr Value {
32                         get {
33                                 if (marshaled_string == IntPtr.Zero && str != null)
34                                         marshaled_string = StringToUtf8 (str);
35                                 return marshaled_string;
36                         }
37                 }
38
39                 public void Dispose () {
40                         if (marshaled_string != IntPtr.Zero) {
41                                 GFree (marshaled_string);
42                                 marshaled_string = IntPtr.Zero;
43                         }
44                 }
45         }
46 }