#ifndef UTILITIES_H_A89E99LI
#define UTILITIES_H_A89E99LI

#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <curl/curl.h>

// see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228005/alternative-to-itoa-for-converting-integer-to-string-c
template <typename T> std::string toStr(T tmp) {
	std::ostringstream out;
	out << tmp;
	return out.str();
}

template <typename T> T strTo(std::string tmp) {
	T output;
	std::istringstream in(tmp);
	in >> output;
	return output;
}


enum fcurl_type_e {
  CFTYPE_NONE=0,
  CFTYPE_FILE=1,
  CFTYPE_CURL=2
};
 
struct fcurl_data
{
  enum fcurl_type_e type;     /* type of handle */ 
  union {
    CURL *curl;
    FILE *file;
  } handle;                   /* handle */ 
 
  char *buffer;               /* buffer to store cached data*/ 
  size_t buffer_len;          /* currently allocated buffers length */ 
  size_t buffer_pos;          /* end of data in buffer*/ 
  int still_running;          /* Is background url fetch still in progress */ 
};
 
typedef struct fcurl_data URL_FILE;

URL_FILE *url_fopen(const char *url,const char *operation);
int url_fclose(URL_FILE *file);
int url_feof(URL_FILE *file);
size_t url_fread(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, URL_FILE *file);
char * url_fgets(char *ptr, size_t size, URL_FILE *file);
void url_rewind(URL_FILE *file);

#endif /* end of include guard: UTILITIES_H_A89E99LI */