private void _merge_prefix(LinkedList<byte[]> deque, int size)
{
/*Replace the first entries in a deque of strings with a single
string of up to size bytes.
>>> d = collections.deque(['abc', 'de', 'fghi', 'j'])
>>> _merge_prefix(d, 5); print d
deque(['abcde', 'fghi', 'j'])
Strings will be split as necessary to reach the desired size.
>>> _merge_prefix(d, 7); print d
deque(['abcdefg', 'hi', 'j'])
>>> _merge_prefix(d, 3); print d
deque(['abc', 'defg', 'hi', 'j'])
>>> _merge_prefix(d, 100); print d
deque(['abcdefghij'])
*/
if (deque.Count == 1 && deque.at(0).Length <= size)
return;
var prefix = new List<byte[]>();
var remaining = size;
while (deque.Any() && remaining > 0)
{
var chunk = deque.popleft();
if (chunk.Length > remaining)
{
var segment = new ArraySegment<byte>(chunk, remaining, chunk.Length - remaining);
deque.AddFirst(chunk.substr(remaining)); // deque.AddFirst(chunk[remaining:]);
chunk = chunk.substr(0, remaining); // chunk = chunk[:remaining];
}
prefix.Add(chunk);
remaining -= chunk.Length;
}
// This data structure normally just contains byte strings, but
// the unittest gets messy if it doesn't use the default str() type,
// so do the merge based on the type of data that's actually present.
if (prefix.Count > 0)
deque.AddFirst(ByteArrayExtensions.join(prefix.ToArray()));
if (deque.Count == 0)
deque.AddFirst(new byte[] {});
}
