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+/* Kaleidoscope - Firmware for computer input devices
+ * Copyright (C) 2021  Keyboard.io, Inc.
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+ * the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+ * Foundation, version 3.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
+ * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
+ * details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+ * this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "kaleidoscope/event_handler_result.h"  // for EventHandlerResult
+#include "kaleidoscope/KeyEvent.h"              // for KeyEvent, KeyEventId
+
+namespace kaleidoscope {
+
+/// An event tracker for plugins that implement `onKeyswitchEvent()`
+///
+/// Plugins that implement the `onKeyswitchEvent()` are required to agree to a
+/// contract wherein they promise to only process each event once.  They may
+/// delay an event by returning `EventHandlerResult::ABORT` when they first
+/// encounter an event, then re-start it (in response to a subsequent event or a
+/// timeout) by calling `Runtime.handleKeyswitchEvent()`.  When they do so, they
+/// must take pains to ensure that they ignore that event when it gets passed to
+/// their `onKeyswitchEvent()` handler a second time.  In addition, a subsequent
+/// plugin's `onKeyswitchEvent()` handler might do the same thing, and the event
+/// must be ignored in that case as well. This `KeyEventTracker` class is a
+/// helper that makes it easy for plugins to abide by the terms of the
+/// `onKeyswitchEvent()` contract.
+///
+/// All that's required is adding a private member variable to the plugin's
+/// class definition, as follows:
+///
+/// ```c++
+/// class MyPlugin : public Plugin {
+///  private:
+///   KeyEventTracker event_tracker_;
+///  public:
+///   EventHandlerResult onKeyswitchEvent(KeyEvent &event);
+/// };
+/// ```
+///
+/// Then, in the definition of that plugin's `onKeyswitchEvent()` function, use
+/// the tracker's `shouldIgnore()` function to let already-processed events pass
+/// through:
+///
+/// ```c++
+/// EventHandlerResult MyPlugin::onKeyswitchEvent(KeyEvent &event) {
+///   if (event_tracker_.shouldIgnore(event))
+///     return EventHandlerResult::OK;
+///   ...
+/// }
+/// ```
+///
+/// As a side effect, the `shouldIgnore()` function will record the `id` of the
+/// event, if it is not one that the tracker has seen "recently".  It works by
+/// keeping track of the "newest" event ID that it has seen, by subtracting the
+/// ID of the event passed to it from the current "newest" event ID.  If the
+/// result is greater than zero, the event is considered to be "new" and the
+/// tracked ID is updated.  The mechanism isn't perfect; if 128 (`KeyEventId`
+/// stores ony byte of data) new event IDs are generated without any of them
+/// reaching the plugin's `onKeyswitchEvent()` handler, it is theoretically
+/// possible to overflow and a new event will be treated as old.
+
+class KeyEventTracker {
+
+ private:
+  // The ID of the "newest" event this tracker has seen.
+  KeyEventId last_id_seen_{-1};
+
+ public:
+  /// Check if an event should be ignored by the client plugin
+  ///
+  /// This function should be called by a plugin's `onKeyswitchEvent()` handler
+  /// function to determined if the `event` has an `id` member that this tracker
+  /// has seen "recently".
+  bool shouldIgnore(const KeyEvent &event) {
+    return !isNew(event);
+  }
+
+  /// Report if a given event is "new" to this tracker
+  ///
+  /// Returns `true` if the input event is newer than the latest event the
+  /// tracker has seen.  If it is newer, also update the tracker to reflect the
+  /// new event ID.
+  bool isNew(const KeyEvent &event) {
+    KeyEventId offset = event.id() - last_id_seen_;
+    if (offset > 0) {
+      last_id_seen_ = event.id();
+      return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+
+};
+
+}  // namespace kaleidoscope