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#pragma once

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Text;

namespace Org {
namespace Apache {
namespace Qpid {
namespace Messaging {



// Helper functions for marshaling.

private ref class QpidMarshal
{
private:
	QpidMarshal::QpidMarshal() {}

public:

    /// <summary>
    /// Convert managed String into native UTF8-encoded string
    /// TODO: figure out some encoding other that UTF-8
    /// </summary>

    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;
    }
};

}}}}
