// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
 
using System.Collections.Immutable;
 
namespace System.Runtime.InteropServices
{
    /// <summary>
    /// An unsafe class that provides a set of methods to access the underlying data representations of immutable collections.
    /// </summary>
    public static class ImmutableCollectionsMarshal
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets an <see cref="ImmutableArray{T}"/> value wrapping the input <typeparamref name="T"/> array.
        /// </summary>
        /// <typeparam name="T">The type of elements in the input array.</typeparam>
        /// <param name="array">The input array to wrap in the returned <see cref="ImmutableArray{T}"/> value.</param>
        /// <returns>An <see cref="ImmutableArray{T}"/> value wrapping <paramref name="array"/>.</returns>
        /// <remarks>
        /// <para>
        /// When using this method, callers should take extra care to ensure that they're the sole owners of the input
        /// array, and that it won't be modified once the returned <see cref="ImmutableArray{T}"/> value starts being
        /// used. Doing so might cause undefined behavior in code paths which don't expect the contents of a given
        /// <see cref="ImmutableArray{T}"/> values to change after its creation.
        /// </para>
        /// <para>
        /// If <paramref name="array"/> is <see langword="null"/>, the returned <see cref="ImmutableArray{T}"/> value
        /// will be uninitialized (ie. its <see cref="ImmutableArray{T}.IsDefault"/> property will be <see langword="true"/>).
        /// </para>
        /// </remarks>
        public static ImmutableArray<T> AsImmutableArray<T>(T[]? array)
        {
            return new(array);
        }
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the underlying <typeparamref name="T"/> array for an input <see cref="ImmutableArray{T}"/> value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <typeparam name="T">The type of elements in the input <see cref="ImmutableArray{T}"/> value.</typeparam>
        /// <param name="array">The input <see cref="ImmutableArray{T}"/> value to get the underlying <typeparamref name="T"/> array from.</param>
        /// <returns>The underlying <typeparamref name="T"/> array for <paramref name="array"/>, if present.</returns>
        /// <remarks>
        /// <para>
        /// When using this method, callers should make sure to not pass the resulting underlying array to methods that
        /// might mutate it. Doing so might cause undefined behavior in code paths using <paramref name="array"/> which
        /// don't expect the contents of the <see cref="ImmutableArray{T}"/> value to change.
        /// </para>
        /// <para>
        /// If <paramref name="array"/> is uninitialized (ie. its <see cref="ImmutableArray{T}.IsDefault"/> property is
        /// <see langword="true"/>), the resulting <typeparamref name="T"/> array will be <see langword="null"/>.
        /// </para>
        /// </remarks>
        public static T[]? AsArray<T>(ImmutableArray<T> array)
        {
            return array.array;
        }
    }
}