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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>.
/
/**
 * INCLUDE: parseparams.hh
 *
 * MODULE:  raslib
 * CLASS:   r_Parse_Params
 *
 * COMMENTS:
 *
*/

#ifndef _PARSE_PARAMS_HH_
#define _PARSE_PARAMS_HH_

#include <iosfwd>

//@ManMemo: Module {\bf raslib}

/*@Doc:
  Class for parsing a string consisting of key=value pairs separated by ",".
*/

class r_Parse_Params
{
public:

  /// the possible parameter types used for add()
  enum parse_param_type {
    param_type_int,
    param_type_double,
    param_type_string
  };
  /**
     Possible parameter types and their corresponding C types are

     \begin{tabular}{ll}
     param_type_int && int\\
     param_type_double && double\\
     param_type_string && char*\\
     \end{tabular}
  */

  struct parse_params_s;

  /// default constructor, should not be used
  r_Parse_Params( void );
  /// constructor, gets descriptor of the values to scan for
  r_Parse_Params( unsigned int num );
  /// destructor
  ~r_Parse_Params( void );
  /// add parameters to the list
  int add( const char *key, void *store, parse_param_type type );
  /**
     Add a parameter to the list. key is the keyword, e.g. ``quality'', type
     is one of the available types and describes the data type of the parameter
     and store is a pointer to a variable of this type that will be updated
     by process() if the parameter is encountered there. The variable pointed
     to by store must not be initalized except for param_type_string where it
     must be set to NULL before calling process() for the first time. The contents
     of a string variable must be freed by the caller by first checking whether
     the variable is NULL and if not doing a delete [] <var>.
   */
  /// process parameter string
  int process( const char *str ) const;
  /**
     process the parameter string. Returns the number of keywords found
     or -1 for error.
  */


protected:
  //@Man: The parameter descriptor
  //@{
  typedef struct parse_params_s {
    const char *key;
    void *store;
    parse_param_type type;
  } parse_params_t;
  //@}

  parse_params_t *params;
  unsigned int maxnum;
  unsigned int number;

  static const unsigned int granularity;
};

//@ManMemo: Module: {\bf raslib}
/**
  Output stream operator for objects of type {\tt const} \Ref{r_Parse_Params::parse_param_type}.
  */
extern std::ostream& operator<<( std::ostream& s, const r_Parse_Params::parse_param_type& d );
  

#endif