From 6dfdcf420f789797fddccaaa00c75c77b1d5be65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tobias Brunner <tobias@strongswan.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:47:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added a method to bio_writer_t that allows to skip a number
 of bytes

A chunk pointing to the skipped bytes is returned, allowing users of
bio_writer_t to write/copy data to the skipped bytes themselves.
---
 src/libstrongswan/bio/bio_writer.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 src/libstrongswan/bio/bio_writer.h |  9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libstrongswan/bio/bio_writer.c b/src/libstrongswan/bio/bio_writer.c
index 16a16f4bd..8576843ee 100644
--- a/src/libstrongswan/bio/bio_writer.c
+++ b/src/libstrongswan/bio/bio_writer.c
@@ -202,6 +202,20 @@ METHOD(bio_writer_t, wrap32, void,
 	this->used += 4;
 }
 
+METHOD(bio_writer_t, skip, chunk_t,
+	private_bio_writer_t *this, size_t len)
+{
+	chunk_t skipped;
+
+	while (this->used + len > this->buf.len)
+	{
+		increase(this);
+	}
+	skipped = chunk_create(this->buf.ptr + this->used, len);
+	this->used += len;
+	return skipped;
+}
+
 METHOD(bio_writer_t, get_buf, chunk_t,
 	private_bio_writer_t *this)
 {
@@ -247,6 +261,7 @@ bio_writer_t *bio_writer_create(u_int32_t bufsize)
 			.wrap16 = _wrap16,
 			.wrap24 = _wrap24,
 			.wrap32 = _wrap32,
+			.skip = _skip,
 			.get_buf = _get_buf,
 			.extract_buf = _extract_buf,
 			.destroy = _destroy,
diff --git a/src/libstrongswan/bio/bio_writer.h b/src/libstrongswan/bio/bio_writer.h
index 8f84d0500..57a5c3d38 100644
--- a/src/libstrongswan/bio/bio_writer.h
+++ b/src/libstrongswan/bio/bio_writer.h
@@ -125,6 +125,15 @@ struct bio_writer_t {
 	 */
 	void (*wrap32)(bio_writer_t *this);
 
+	/**
+	 * Skips len bytes in the buffer before the next data is written, returns
+	 * a chunk covering the skipped bytes.
+	 *
+	 * @param len		number of bytes to skip
+	 * @return			chunk pointing to skipped bytes in the internal buffer
+	 */
+	chunk_t (*skip)(bio_writer_t *this, size_t len);
+
 	/**
 	 * Get the encoded data buffer.
 	 *