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#ifndef FIRESTORE_CORE_SRC_FIREBASE_FIRESTORE_IMMUTABLE_SORTED_MAP_BASE_H_
#define FIRESTORE_CORE_SRC_FIREBASE_FIRESTORE_IMMUTABLE_SORTED_MAP_BASE_H_

#include <cstdint>

namespace firebase {
namespace firestore {
namespace immutable {
namespace impl {

/**
 * A base class for implementing sorted maps, containing types and constants
 * that don't depend upon the template parameters to the main class.
 *
 * Note that this exists as a base class rather than as just a namespace in
 * order to make it possible for users of the SortedMap classes to avoid needing
 * to declare storage for each instantiation of the template.
 */
class SortedMapBase {
 public:
  /**
   * The type of size() methods on immutable collections. Note:
   *   * This is not size_t specifically to save space in the TreeSortedMap
   *     implementation.
   *   * This remains unsigned for straightforward casting to size_t.
   */
  using size_type = uint32_t;

  /**
   * The maximum size of an ArraySortedMap.
   *
   * This is the size threshold where we use a tree backed sorted map instead of
   * an array backed sorted map. This is a more or less arbitrary chosen value,
   * that was chosen to be large enough to fit most of object kind of Firebase
   * data, but small enough to not notice degradation in performance for
   * inserting and lookups. Feel free to empirically determine this constant,
   * but don't expect much gain in real world performance.
   */
  // TODO(wilhuff): actually use this for switching implementations.
  static constexpr size_type kFixedSize = 25;

  /**
   * A sentinel return value that indicates not found. Functionally similar to
   * std::string::npos.
   */
  static constexpr size_type npos = static_cast<size_type>(-1);
};

}  // namespace impl
}  // namespace immutable
}  // namespace firestore
}  // namespace firebase

#endif  // FIRESTORE_CORE_SRC_FIREBASE_FIRESTORE_IMMUTABLE_SORTED_MAP_BASE_H_