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+// Copyright 2016 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 MOJO_PUBLIC_CPP_BINDINGS_ARRAY_TRAITS_H_
+#define MOJO_PUBLIC_CPP_BINDINGS_ARRAY_TRAITS_H_
+
+namespace mojo {
+
+// This must be specialized for any type |T| to be serialized/deserialized as
+// a mojom array.
+//
+// Usually you would like to do a partial specialization for a container (e.g.
+// vector) template. Imagine you want to specialize it for Container<>, you need
+// to implement:
+//
+//   template <typename T>
+//   struct ArrayTraits<Container<T>> {
+//     using Element = T;
+//     // These two statements are optional. Use them if you'd like to serialize
+//     // a container that supports iterators but does not support O(1) random
+//     // access and so GetAt(...) would be expensive.
+//     // using Iterator = T::iterator;
+//     // using ConstIterator = T::const_iterator;
+//
+//     // These two methods are optional. Please see comments in struct_traits.h
+//     static bool IsNull(const Container<T>& input);
+//     static void SetToNull(Container<T>* output);
+//
+//     static size_t GetSize(const Container<T>& input);
+//
+//     // These two methods are optional. They are used to access the
+//     // underlying storage of the array to speed up copy of POD types.
+//     static T* GetData(Container<T>& input);
+//     static const T* GetData(const Container<T>& input);
+//
+//     // The following six methods are optional if the GetAt(...) methods are
+//     // implemented. These methods specify how to read the elements of
+//     // Container in some sequential order specified by the iterator.
+//     //
+//     // Acquires an iterator positioned at the first element in the container.
+//     static ConstIterator GetBegin(const Container<T>& input);
+//     static Iterator GetBegin(Container<T>& input);
+//
+//     // Advances |iterator| to the next position within the container.
+//     static void AdvanceIterator(ConstIterator& iterator);
+//     static void AdvanceIterator(Iterator& iterator);
+//
+//     // Returns a reference to the value at the current position of
+//     // |iterator|. Optionally, the ConstIterator version of GetValue can
+//     // return by value instead of by reference if it makes sense for the
+//     // type.
+//     static const T& GetValue(ConstIterator& iterator);
+//     static T& GetValue(Iterator& iterator);
+//
+//     // These two methods are optional if the iterator methods are
+//     // implemented.
+//     static T& GetAt(Container<T>& input, size_t index);
+//     static const T& GetAt(const Container<T>& input, size_t index);
+//
+//     // Returning false results in deserialization failure and causes the
+//     // message pipe receiving it to be disconnected.
+//     static bool Resize(Container<T>& input, size_t size);
+//   };
+//
+template <typename T>
+struct ArrayTraits;
+
+}  // namespace mojo
+
+#endif  // MOJO_PUBLIC_CPP_BINDINGS_ARRAY_TRAITS_H_