chrome/common/visitedlink_common.h

// Copyright (c) 2006-2008 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#ifndef CHROME_COMMON_VISITEDLINK_COMMON_H__
#define CHROME_COMMON_VISITEDLINK_COMMON_H__
#pragma once

#include <vector>

#include "base/basictypes.h"

class GURL;

// number of bytes in the salt
#define LINK_SALT_LENGTH 8

// A multiprocess-safe database of the visited links for the browser. There
// should be exactly one process that has write access (implemented by
// VisitedLinkMaster), while all other processes should be read-only
// (implemented by VisitedLinkSlave). These other processes add links by calling
// the writer process to add them for it. The writer may also notify the readers
// to replace their table when the table is resized.
//
// IPC is not implemented in these classes. This is done through callback
// functions supplied by the creator of these objects to allow more flexibility,
// especially for testing.
//
// This class defines the common base for these others. We implement accessors
// for looking things up in the hash table, and for computing hash values and
// fingerprints. Both the master and the slave inherit from this, and add their
// own code to set up and change these values as their design requires. The
// slave pretty much just sets up the shared memory and saves the pointer. The
// master does a lot of work to manage the table, reading and writing it to and
// from disk, and resizing it when it gets too full.
//
// To ask whether a page is in history, we compute a 64-bit fingerprint of the
// URL. This URL is hashed and we see if it is in the URL hashtable. If it is,
// we consider it visited. Otherwise, it is unvisited. Note that it is possible
// to get collisions, which is the penalty for not storing all URL strings in
// memory (which could get to be more than we want to have in memory). We use
// a salt value for the links on one computer so that an attacker can not
// manually create a link that causes a collision.
class VisitedLinkCommon {
 public:
  // A number that identifies the URL.
  typedef uint64 Fingerprint;
  typedef std::vector<Fingerprint> Fingerprints;

  // A hash value of a fingerprint
  typedef int32 Hash;

  // A fingerprint or hash value that does not exist
  static const Fingerprint null_fingerprint_;
  static const Hash null_hash_;

  VisitedLinkCommon();
  virtual ~VisitedLinkCommon();

  // Returns the fingerprint for the given URL.
  Fingerprint ComputeURLFingerprint(const char* canonical_url,
                                    size_t url_len) const {
    return ComputeURLFingerprint(canonical_url, url_len, salt_);
  }

  // Looks up the given key in the table. The fingerprint for the URL is
  // computed if you call one with the string argument. Returns true if found.
  // Does not modify the hastable.
  bool IsVisited(const char* canonical_url, size_t url_len) const;
  bool IsVisited(const GURL& url) const;
  bool IsVisited(Fingerprint fingerprint) const;

#ifdef UNIT_TEST
  // Returns statistics about DB usage
  void GetUsageStatistics(int32* table_size,
                          VisitedLinkCommon::Fingerprint** fingerprints) {
    *table_size = table_length_;
    *fingerprints = hash_table_;
  }
#endif

 protected:
  // This structure is at the beginning of the shared memory so that the slaves
  // can get stats on the table
  struct SharedHeader {
    // see goes into table_length_
    uint32 length;

    // goes into salt_
    uint8 salt[LINK_SALT_LENGTH];
  };

  // Returns the fingerprint at the given index into the URL table. This
  // function should be called instead of accessing the table directly to
  // contain endian issues.
  Fingerprint FingerprintAt(int32 table_offset) const {
    if (!hash_table_)
      return null_fingerprint_;
    return hash_table_[table_offset];
  }

  // Computes the fingerprint of the given canonical URL. It is static so the
  // same algorithm can be re-used by the table rebuilder, so you will have to
  // pass the salt as a parameter. See the non-static version above if you
  // want to use the current class' salt.
  static Fingerprint ComputeURLFingerprint(const char* canonical_url,
                                           size_t url_len,
                                           const uint8 salt[LINK_SALT_LENGTH]);

  // Computes the hash value of the given fingerprint, this is used as a lookup
  // into the hashtable.
  static Hash HashFingerprint(Fingerprint fingerprint, int32 table_length) {
    if (table_length == 0)
      return null_hash_;
    return static_cast<Hash>(fingerprint % table_length);
  }
  // Uses the current hashtable.
  Hash HashFingerprint(Fingerprint fingerprint) const {
    return HashFingerprint(fingerprint, table_length_);
  }

  // pointer to the first item
  VisitedLinkCommon::Fingerprint* hash_table_;

  // the number of items in the hash table
  int32 table_length_;

  // salt used for each URL when computing the fingerprint
  uint8 salt_[LINK_SALT_LENGTH];

 private:
  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(VisitedLinkCommon);
};

#endif  // CHROME_COMMON_VISITEDLINK_COMMON_H_