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+// Copyright (c) 2011 The LevelDB Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file. See the AUTHORS file for names of contributors.
+
+#include "db/log_writer.h"
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include "leveldb/env.h"
+#include "util/coding.h"
+#include "util/crc32c.h"
+
+namespace leveldb {
+namespace log {
+
+Writer::Writer(WritableFile* dest)
+    : dest_(dest),
+      block_offset_(0) {
+  for (int i = 0; i <= kMaxRecordType; i++) {
+    char t = static_cast<char>(i);
+    type_crc_[i] = crc32c::Value(&t, 1);
+  }
+}
+
+Writer::~Writer() {
+}
+
+Status Writer::AddRecord(const Slice& slice) {
+  const char* ptr = slice.data();
+  size_t left = slice.size();
+
+  // Fragment the record if necessary and emit it.  Note that if slice
+  // is empty, we still want to iterate once to emit a single
+  // zero-length record
+  Status s;
+  bool begin = true;
+  do {
+    const int leftover = kBlockSize - block_offset_;
+    assert(leftover >= 0);
+    if (leftover < kHeaderSize) {
+      // Switch to a new block
+      if (leftover > 0) {
+        // Fill the trailer (literal below relies on kHeaderSize being 7)
+        assert(kHeaderSize == 7);
+        dest_->Append(Slice("\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00", leftover));
+      }
+      block_offset_ = 0;
+    }
+
+    // Invariant: we never leave < kHeaderSize bytes in a block.
+    assert(kBlockSize - block_offset_ - kHeaderSize >= 0);
+
+    const size_t avail = kBlockSize - block_offset_ - kHeaderSize;
+    const size_t fragment_length = (left < avail) ? left : avail;
+
+    RecordType type;
+    const bool end = (left == fragment_length);
+    if (begin && end) {
+      type = kFullType;
+    } else if (begin) {
+      type = kFirstType;
+    } else if (end) {
+      type = kLastType;
+    } else {
+      type = kMiddleType;
+    }
+
+    s = EmitPhysicalRecord(type, ptr, fragment_length);
+    ptr += fragment_length;
+    left -= fragment_length;
+    begin = false;
+  } while (s.ok() && left > 0);
+  return s;
+}
+
+Status Writer::EmitPhysicalRecord(RecordType t, const char* ptr, size_t n) {
+  assert(n <= 0xffff);  // Must fit in two bytes
+  assert(block_offset_ + kHeaderSize + n <= kBlockSize);
+
+  // Format the header
+  char buf[kHeaderSize];
+  buf[4] = static_cast<char>(n & 0xff);
+  buf[5] = static_cast<char>(n >> 8);
+  buf[6] = static_cast<char>(t);
+
+  // Compute the crc of the record type and the payload.
+  uint32_t crc = crc32c::Extend(type_crc_[t], ptr, n);
+  crc = crc32c::Mask(crc);                 // Adjust for storage
+  EncodeFixed32(buf, crc);
+
+  // Write the header and the payload
+  Status s = dest_->Append(Slice(buf, kHeaderSize));
+  if (s.ok()) {
+    s = dest_->Append(Slice(ptr, n));
+    if (s.ok()) {
+      s = dest_->Flush();
+    }
+  }
+  block_offset_ += kHeaderSize + n;
+  return s;
+}
+
+}  // namespace log
+}  // namespace leveldb