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#ifndef __OPENSPACE_CORE___TSTRING___H__
#define __OPENSPACE_CORE___TSTRING___H__

#include <string>
#include <string_view>

namespace openspace {

/**
 * This string is a temporary string that is generated using the temporary memory
 * storage. This means that under no circumstances must an instance of a tstring be kept
 * across frame boundaries as the temporary storage is reset at between frames. In
 * exchange, the allocation of these objects is extreme fast and with barely any overhead
 * associated with it. The memory accessed through a tstring object shall never be
 * released manually.
 */
using tstring = std::string_view;

/**
 * Allocate and create a temporary string from the passed std::string.
 *
 * \param str The string to be copied into a newly allocated tstring
 * \return The copy of the str as a temporary string
 */
tstring temporaryString(const std::string& str);

/**
 * Allocate and create a temporary string from the passed std::string_view.
 *
 * \param str The string to be copied into a newly allocated tstring
 * \return The copy of the str as a temporary string
 */
tstring temporaryString(std::string_view str);

/**
 * Allocate and create a temporary string from the passed char array.
 *
 * \param str The string to be copied into a newly allocated tstring
 * \return The copy of the str as a temporary string
 */
tstring temporaryString(const char str[]);

} // namespace openspace

#endif // __OPENSPACE_CORE___TSTRING___H__
