PortInterface.hpp

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  tag: Peter Soetens  Thu Oct 22 11:59:07 CEST 2009  PortInterface.hpp

                        PortInterface.hpp -  description
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    begin                : Thu October 22 2009
    copyright            : (C) 2009 Sylvain Joyeux
    email                : sylvain.joyeux@m4x.org

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#ifndef ORO_EXECUTION_PORT_INTERFACE_HPP
#define ORO_EXECUTION_PORT_INTERFACE_HPP

#include <string>
#include "../internal/rtt-internal-fwd.hpp"
#include "../ConnPolicy.hpp"
#include "../internal/ConnectionManager.hpp"
#include "../internal/ConnID.hpp"
#include "ChannelElementBase.hpp"
#include "../types/rtt-types-fwd.hpp"
#include "../rtt-fwd.hpp"

namespace RTT
{ namespace base {

    class RTT_API PortInterface
    {
        std::string name;
        std::string mdesc;
    protected:
        DataFlowInterface* iface;
        internal::ConnectionManager cmanager;

        PortInterface(const std::string& name);

    public:
        virtual ~PortInterface() {}

        virtual internal::ConnID* getPortID() const;

        const std::string& getName() const { return name; }

        bool setName(const std::string& name);

        const std::string& getDescription() const { return mdesc; }

        PortInterface& doc(const std::string& desc);


        virtual bool connected() const = 0;

        virtual bool connectedTo(PortInterface* port);

        virtual const types::TypeInfo* getTypeInfo() const = 0;

        virtual void disconnect() = 0;

        virtual bool disconnect(PortInterface* port) = 0;

        virtual bool isLocal() const;

        virtual int serverProtocol() const;

        virtual PortInterface* clone() const = 0;

        virtual PortInterface* antiClone() const = 0;

        virtual Service* createPortObject();

        virtual bool connectTo(PortInterface* other, ConnPolicy const& policy) = 0;

        virtual bool connectTo(PortInterface* other) = 0;

        virtual bool createStream(ConnPolicy const& policy) = 0;

        virtual bool createConnection(internal::SharedConnectionBase::shared_ptr shared_connection, ConnPolicy const& policy = ConnPolicy()) = 0;

        virtual bool addConnection(internal::ConnID* cid, ChannelElementBase::shared_ptr channel,
                                   ConnPolicy const& policy = ConnPolicy()) = 0;

        virtual bool removeConnection(internal::ConnID* cid);

        void setInterface(DataFlowInterface* iface);

        DataFlowInterface* getInterface() const;

        virtual internal::ConnectionManager* getManager() { return &cmanager; }

        virtual ChannelElementBase* getEndpoint() const = 0;

        virtual internal::SharedConnectionBase::shared_ptr getSharedConnection() const;
    };

}}

#endif