/*
******************************************************************************
* Copyright (C) 2014, International Business Machines
* Corporation and others.  All Rights Reserved.
******************************************************************************
* sharedbreakiterator.h
*/

#ifndef __SHARED_BREAKITERATOR_H__
#define __SHARED_BREAKITERATOR_H__

#include "unicode/utypes.h"
#include "sharedobject.h"

U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN

class BreakIterator;

// SharedBreakIterator encapsulates a shared BreakIterator. Because
// BreakIterator has mutable semantics, clients must ensure that all uses
// of a particular shared BreakIterator is protected by the same mutex
// ensuring that only one thread at a time gets access to that shared
// BreakIterator. Clients can accomplish this by creating a mutex for all
// uses of break iterator within a particular class. Then objects of that
// class may then freely share break iterators among themselves. However,
// these shared break iterators must never be exposed outside of that class.
class U_I18N_API SharedBreakIterator : public SharedObject {
public:
    SharedBreakIterator(BreakIterator *biToAdopt);
    virtual ~SharedBreakIterator();

    BreakIterator *get() const { return ptr; }
    BreakIterator *operator->() const { return ptr; }
    BreakIterator &operator*() const { return *ptr; }
private:
    BreakIterator *ptr;
    SharedBreakIterator(const SharedBreakIterator &);
    SharedBreakIterator &operator=(const SharedBreakIterator &);
};

U_NAMESPACE_END

#endif