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+/**
+ * Orthanc - A Lightweight, RESTful DICOM Store
+ * Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Sebastien Jodogne, Medical Physics
+ * Department, University Hospital of Liege, Belgium
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+ * License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders of this
+ * program give permission to link the code of its release with the
+ * OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it
+ * that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute
+ * the linked executables. You must obey the GNU General Public License
+ * in all respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL". If you
+ * modify file(s) with this exception, you may extend this exception to
+ * your version of the file(s), but you are not obligated to do so. If
+ * you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your
+ * version. If you delete this exception statement from all source files
+ * in the program, then also delete it here.
+ * 
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ * General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ **/
+
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <string>
+#include <boost/noncopyable.hpp>
+
+namespace Orthanc
+{
+  class IBufferCompressor : public boost::noncopyable
+  {
+  public:
+    virtual ~IBufferCompressor()
+    {
+    }
+
+    virtual void Compress(std::string& compressed,
+                          const void* uncompressed,
+                          size_t uncompressedSize) = 0;
+
+    virtual void Uncompress(std::string& uncompressed,
+                            const void* compressed,
+                            size_t compressedSize) = 0;
+
+    static void Compress(std::string& compressed,
+                         IBufferCompressor& compressor,
+                         const std::string& uncompressed)
+    {
+      compressor.Compress(compressed, 
+                          uncompressed.size() == 0 ? NULL : uncompressed.c_str(), 
+                          uncompressed.size());
+    }
+
+    static void Uncompress(std::string& uncompressed,
+                           IBufferCompressor& compressor,
+                           const std::string& compressed)
+    {
+      compressor.Uncompress(uncompressed, 
+                            compressed.size() == 0 ? NULL : compressed.c_str(), 
+                            compressed.size());
+    }
+  };
+}