// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
 
namespace System.Buffers
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Represents an output sink into which <typeparam name="T"/> data can be written.
    /// </summary>
    public interface IBufferWriter<T>
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Notifies <see cref="IBufferWriter{T}"/> that <paramref name="count"/> amount of data was written to the output <see cref="Span{T}"/>/<see cref="Memory{T}"/>
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// You must request a new buffer after calling Advance to continue writing more data and cannot write to a previously acquired buffer.
        /// </remarks>
        void Advance(int count);
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a <see cref="Memory{T}"/> to write to that is at least the requested length (specified by <paramref name="sizeHint"/>).
        /// If no <paramref name="sizeHint"/> is provided (or it's equal to <code>0</code>), some non-empty buffer is returned.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This must never return an empty <see cref="Memory{T}"/> but it can throw
        /// if the requested buffer size is not available.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <remarks>
        /// There is no guarantee that successive calls will return the same buffer or the same-sized buffer.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <remarks>
        /// You must request a new buffer after calling Advance to continue writing more data and cannot write to a previously acquired buffer.
        /// </remarks>
        Memory<T> GetMemory(int sizeHint = 0);
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a <see cref="Span{T}"/> to write to that is at least the requested length (specified by <paramref name="sizeHint"/>).
        /// If no <paramref name="sizeHint"/> is provided (or it's equal to <code>0</code>), some non-empty buffer is returned.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This must never return an empty <see cref="Span{T}"/> but it can throw
        /// if the requested buffer size is not available.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <remarks>
        /// There is no guarantee that successive calls will return the same buffer or the same-sized buffer.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <remarks>
        /// You must request a new buffer after calling Advance to continue writing more data and cannot write to a previously acquired buffer.
        /// </remarks>
        Span<T> GetSpan(int sizeHint = 0);
    }
}