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#pragma once

namespace Apache {
namespace Qpid {
namespace Interop {

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Text;


// Helper functions for marshaling.

private ref class QpidMarshal
{
 public:

    // marshal_as<T> not available in all Visual Studio editions.

    static std::string ToNative (System::String^ managed) {
	if (managed->Length == 0) {
	    return std::string();
	}
	array<unsigned char>^ mbytes = Encoding::UTF8->GetBytes(managed);
	if (mbytes->Length == 0) {
	    return std::string();
	}

	pin_ptr<unsigned char> pinnedBuf = &mbytes[0];
	std::string native((char *) pinnedBuf, mbytes->Length);
	return native;
    }
};

}}} // namespace Apache::Qpid::Interop