#include <Name.h>

Public Types
using	Hash = Internal::NameData::Hash

Public Member Functions
	AZ_TYPE_INFO (Name, "{3D2B920C-9EFD-40D5-AAE0-DF131C3D4931}")

	AZ_CLASS_ALLOCATOR (Name, AZ::SystemAllocator)

	Name (const Name &name)

	Name (Name &&name)

Name &	operator= (const Name &)

Name &	operator= (Name &&)

	Name (AZStd::string_view name)

	Name (AZStd::string_view name, NameDictionary &nameDictionary)

	Name (Hash hash)

	Name (Hash hash, NameDictionary &nameDictionary)

	Name (NameRef name)
	Creates a name from a NameRef, an already existent name within the name dictionary.

Name &	operator= (AZStd::string_view name)

AZStd::string_view	GetStringView () const

const char *	GetCStr () const

bool	IsEmpty () const

bool	operator== (const Name &other) const

bool	operator!= (const Name &other) const

bool	operator== (const NameRef &other) const

bool	operator!= (const NameRef &other) const

Hash	GetHash () const
	Returns the string's hash that is used as the key in the NameDictionary.

Static Public Member Functions
static void	Reflect (AZ::ReflectContext *context)

static Name	FromStringLiteral (AZStd::string_view name, NameDictionary *nameDictionary)

static Name *&	GetDeferredHead ()

Friends
bool	operator< (const Name &lhs, const Name &rhs)=delete

bool	operator<= (const Name &lhs, const Name &rhs)=delete

bool	operator> (const Name &lhs, const Name &rhs)=delete

bool	operator>= (const Name &lhs, const Name &rhs)=delete

Detailed Description

The Name class provides very fast string equality comparison, so that names can be used as IDs without sacrificing performance. It is a smart pointer to a NameData held in a NameDictionary, where names are tracked, de-duplicated, and ref-counted.

Creating a Name object with a value that doesn't exist in the dictionary is very slow. Creating a Name object with a value that already exists in the dictionary is similar to creating AZStd::string. Copy-constructing a Name object is very fast. Equality-comparison of two Name objects is very fast.

Names require the dictionary to be initialized before they are created, unless they are created from a string literal via Name::FromStringLiteral, in which they'll store their string for deferred initialization. A Name instance may only be statically declared using Name::FromStringLiteral (or the AZ_NAME_LITERAL helper macro).

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ Name() [1/3]

AZ::Name::Name ( AZStd::string_view name )

explicit

Creates an instance of a name from a string. The name string is used as a key to lookup an entry in the dictionary, and is not internally held after the call.

◆ Name() [2/3]

AZ::Name::Name ( Hash hash )

explicit

Creates an instance of a name from a hash. The hash will be used to find an existing name in the dictionary. If there is no name with this hash, the resulting name will be empty.

◆ Name() [3/3]

AZ::Name::Name	(	Hash	hash,
		NameDictionary &	nameDictionary
	)

Lookup an instance of a name from a hash. This overload uses the supplied nameDictionary

Member Function Documentation

◆ FromStringLiteral()

static Name AZ::Name::FromStringLiteral	(	AZStd::string_view	name,
		NameDictionary *	nameDictionary
	)

static

Creates a Name from a string literal. FromStringLiteral is suitable for creating Names that live at a global or static scope.

Names created from string literals may exist without a NameDictionary, and may continue to persist after the NameDictionary is destroyed (even if it is destroyed multiple times, as in some text fixtures).

Warning: FromStringLiteral is not thread-safe and should only be called from the main thread.

◆ GetDeferredHead()

static Name*& AZ::Name::GetDeferredHead ( )

inlinestatic

For internal use: Gets a reference to the current head of the deferred Name linked list. The list is used to initialize Names created before the NameDictionary when their modules are loaded.

◆ GetStringView()

AZStd::string_view AZ::Name::GetStringView ( ) const

Returns the name's string value. This is always null-terminated. This will always point to a string in memory (i.e. it will return "" instead of null).

◆ operator=()

Name& AZ::Name::operator= ( AZStd::string_view name )

Assigns a new name. The name string is used as a key to lookup an entry in the dictionary, and is not internally held after the call.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

Code/Framework/AzCore/AzCore/Name/Name.h

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