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Obtain contiguous storage for at least the specified `addLength` bytes in the specified `blob` at position `blob‐>length()`, and then grow `blob‐>length()` by `addLength`. If, upon entry, such storage does not exist in `blob`, first trim the final data buffer, if any, and insert a new buffer obtained from the specified `factory`. Return a pointer to the beginning of the storage obtained. The behavior of this function is undefined unless `0 < addLength`, and `factory‐>allocate()`, if called, yields a block of memory of a size at least as large as `addLength`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlbb_blobutil.h>`

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static
char*
getContiguousDataBuffer(
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlbb/Blob.adoc[Blob]* blob,
    int addLength,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlbb/BlobBufferFactory.adoc[BlobBufferFactory]* factory);
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