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+/*
+* This file is part of rasdaman community.
+*
+* Rasdaman community 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, either version 3 of the License, or
+* (at your option) any later version.
+*
+* Rasdaman community 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 rasdaman community.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*
+* Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Peter Baumann /
+rasdaman GmbH.
+*
+* For more information please see <http://www.rasdaman.org>
+* or contact Peter Baumann via <baumann@rasdaman.com>.
+*/
+// -*-C++-*- (for Emacs)
+
+/*************************************************************
+ *
+ *
+ * PURPOSE:
+ *   The CompositeType class is the superclass for all for
+ *   composite types (e.g. Octet, ULong) describing the type of a 
+ *   cell
+ *
+ *
+ * COMMENTS:
+ *
+ ************************************************************/
+
+#ifndef _COMPOSITETYPE_HH_
+#define _COMPOSITETYPE_HH_
+
+#include <iostream>
+#include "basetype.hh"
+
+//@ManMemo: Module: {\bf relcatalogif}.
+
+/*@Doc: 
+CompositeType is the abstract base class for all structured
+\Ref{BaseType} subclasses, at the moment only \Ref{StructType}.
+*/
+
+class CompositeType : public BaseType
+{
+public:
+  virtual unsigned int getSize() const;
+		/*@Doc:
+  		get size of cells of this base type.
+		*/
+
+  CompositeType();
+		/*@Doc:
+  		constructor.
+		*/
+
+  CompositeType(const OId& id) throw (r_Error);
+		/*@Doc:
+  		constructor.
+		*/
+
+  CompositeType(const CompositeType& old);
+		/*@Doc:
+  		constructor.
+		*/
+
+  CompositeType(unsigned int newSize);
+		/*@Doc:
+  		constructor.
+		*/
+
+  virtual ~CompositeType();
+		/*@Doc:
+		virtual destructor needed because of subclasses
+		*/
+
+  CompositeType& operator=(const CompositeType& old);
+		/*@Doc:
+		*/
+
+protected:
+  unsigned int size;
+		/*@Doc:
+		size of one cell of this base type in number of chars.
+		*/
+
+  CompositeType(const char* name, unsigned int newSize);
+		/*@Doc:
+		*/
+};
+
+#endif