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#ifndef _QTSCALARDATA_HH_
#define _QTSCALARDATA_HH_

#ifndef CPPSTDLIB
#include <ospace/string.h> // STL<ToolKit>
#else
#include <string>
#endif

#include "qlparser/qtdata.hh"
#include "catalogmgr/typefactory.hh"


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* Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Peter Baumann /
rasdaman GmbH.
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*/
/*************************************************************
 *
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 ************************************************************/

//@ManMemo: Module: {\bf qlparser}

/*@Doc:

 The abstract class represents a scalar data handled by the
 query tree. It can either be atomic (\Ref{QtAtomicData})
 or complex (\Ref{QtComplexData}). 

*/

class QtScalarData : public QtData
{
  public:
    /// default constructor
    QtScalarData();

    /// copy constructor
    QtScalarData( const QtScalarData& obj );
 
    /// virtual destructor
    virtual ~QtScalarData();

    //@Man: Read/Write methods:
    //@{
    ///

      /// returns data type
      virtual QtDataType getDataType() const;

      /// returns true meaning that the data is of type scalar
      virtual bool isScalarData() const;

      /// returns a pointer to the value type
      inline const BaseType* getValueType() const;

      /// sets the value type
      inline void setValueType( const BaseType* newType );

      /// returns a pointer to the internal character representation
      inline const char* getValueBuffer() const;

      /// sets the value buffer
      inline void setValueBuffer( char* buffer );

      /// returns a null-terminated string describing the type structure
      virtual char* getTypeStructure() const;
      /**
        The string pointer has to be free using free() by the caller.
      */

    ///
    //@}

    /// compares data content
    virtual bool equal( const QtData* obj ) const;

    /// returns content dependent string representation 
    virtual std::string getSpelling() const;

    /// print status of the object to the specified stream
    virtual void printStatus( std::ostream& stream = std::cout ) const;

  protected:
    /// pointer to the value type
    const BaseType* valueType;

    /// pointer to the value buffer
    char* valueBuffer; 
};

#include "qlparser/qtscalardata.icc"

#endif