This commit un-deprecates DeprecatedString, and repurposes it as a byte
string.
As the null state has already been removed, there are no other
particularly hairy blockers in repurposing this type as a byte string
(what it _really_ is).
This commit is auto-generated:
$ xs=$(ack -l \bDeprecatedString\b\|deprecated_string AK Userland \
Meta Ports Ladybird Tests Kernel)
$ perl -pie 's/\bDeprecatedString\b/ByteString/g;
s/deprecated_string/byte_string/g' $xs
$ clang-format --style=file -i \
$(git diff --name-only | grep \.cpp\|\.h)
$ gn format $(git ls-files '*.gn' '*.gni')
Having an alias function that only wraps another one is silly, and
keeping the more obvious name should flush out more uses of deprecated
strings.
No behavior change.
We have a new, improved string type coming up in AK (OOM aware, no null
state), and while it's going to use UTF-8, the name UTF8String is a
mouthful - so let's free up the String name by renaming the existing
class.
Making the old one have an annoying name will hopefully also help with
quick adoption :^)
Each of these strings would previously rely on StringView's char const*
constructor overload, which would call __builtin_strlen on the string.
Since we now have operator ""sv, we can replace these with much simpler
versions. This opens the door to being able to remove
StringView(char const*).
No functional changes.
SQL was standardized before there was consensus on sane language syntax
constructs had evolved. The language is mostly case-insensitive, with
unquoted text converted to upper case. Identifiers can include lower
case characters and other 'special' characters by enclosing the
identifier with double quotes. A double quote is escaped by doubling it.
Likewise, a single quote in a literal string is escaped by doubling it.
All this means that the strategy used in the lexer, where a token's
value is a StringView 'window' on the source string, does not work,
because the value needs to be massaged before being handed to the
parser. Therefore a token now has a String containing its value. Given
the limited lifetime of a token, this is acceptable overhead.
Not doing this means that for example quote removal and double quote
escaping would need to be done in the parser or in AST node
construction, which would spread lexing basically all over the place.
Which would be suboptimal.
There was some impact on the sql utility and SyntaxHighlighter component
which was addressed by storing the token's end position together with
the start position in order to properly highlight it.
Finally, reviewing the tests for parsing numeric literals revealed an
inconsistency in which tokens we accept or reject: `1a` is accepted but
`1e` is rejected. Related to this is the fate of `0x`. Added a FIXME
reminding us to address this.
