Change slurp to return a unique_ptr

io.cpp

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ using namespace std;
 using namespace util;
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-uint8_t *
+std::unique_ptr<char []>
 util::slurp (const boost::filesystem::path& path)  {
     fd_ref fd(open (path.string ().c_str (), O_RDONLY)); // | O_CLOEXEC));
     
@@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ util::slurp (const boost::filesystem::path& path)  {
 
     // Allocate a buffer, and keep reading until it's full. We provide a null
     // padding at the tail as a 'just in case' measure for string manipulation.
-    unique_ptr <uint8_t[]> buffer (new uint8_t[size + 1]);
+    unique_ptr <char []> buffer (new char[size + 1]);
     buffer.get()[size] = '\0';
 
     check_hard (size >= 0);
     size_t remaining = (size_t)size;
-    uint8_t *cursor = buffer.get();
+    char *cursor = buffer.get();
 
     while (remaining) {
         ssize_t consumed = read (fd, cursor, remaining);
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ util::slurp (const boost::filesystem::path& path)  {
         cursor    += consumed;
     }
 
-    return buffer.release();
+    return buffer;
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------

io.hpp

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 #include "annotations.hpp"
 #include "types.hpp"
+#include "memory.hpp"
 
 #include <cstdio>
 #include <cstdint>
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ namespace util {
 
     /// Reads an entire file into memory. Caller frees the result. Guarantees a
     /// null trailing byte.
-    uint8_t *
+    std::unique_ptr<char []>
     slurp (const boost::filesystem::path&) mustuse;
 
     /// A simple RAII wrapper for file descriptors

json.cpp.rl

@@ -255,8 +255,10 @@ is_integer (const json::node &node) {
 //
 
 std::unique_ptr<json::node>
-json::parse (const boost::filesystem::path &path)
-    { return parse ((const char *)slurp (path)); }
+json::parse (const boost::filesystem::path &path) {
+    auto data = slurp (path);
+    return parse (static_cast <const char *> (data.get ()));
+}
 
 
 std::unique_ptr<json::node>