PropertyBase.cpp

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  tag: Peter Soetens  Thu Jul 15 11:21:05 CEST 2004  PropertyBase.cxx

                        PropertyBase.cxx -  description
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    begin                : Thu July 15 2004
    copyright            : (C) 2004 Peter Soetens
    email                : peter.soetens at mech.kuleuven.ac.be

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#ifdef ORO_PRAGMA_INTERFACE
#pragma implementation
#endif
#include "PropertyBase.hpp"
#include "internal/DataSources.hpp"
#include "PropertyBag.hpp"
#include "../types/PropertyDecomposition.hpp"

namespace RTT {
    using namespace detail;

    PropertyBase::~PropertyBase()
    {}

    PropertyBase::PropertyBase()
    {}

    PropertyBase::PropertyBase( std::string name, std::string description)
        : _name(name), _description(description)
    {}

    void PropertyBase::setName(const std::string& name)
    {
        _name = name;
    }

    void PropertyBase::setDescription(const std::string& desc)
    {
        _description = desc;
    }

    namespace base {
        std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream &os, PropertyBase* p)
        {
            if ( p )
                os << p->getDataSource();
            else
                os << "(null property)";
            return os;
        }
    }

    bool PropertyBase::compose( const PropertyBag& source)
    {
        DataSourceBase::shared_ptr dsb = getDataSource();
        ConstReferenceDataSource<PropertyBag> rds(source);
        rds.ref();
        if (dsb)
            return dsb->getTypeInfo()->composeType( &rds, dsb);
        return false;
    }
}