Orocos Real-Time Toolkit  2.6.0
TypeConstructor.hpp
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00002   tag: Peter Soetens  Mon Jan 19 14:11:26 CET 2004  TypeConstructor.hpp
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00004                         TypeConstructor.hpp -  description
00005                            -------------------
00006     begin                : Mon January 19 2004
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00037 
00038 #ifndef ORO_CORELIB_TYPE_BUILDER_HPP
00039 #define ORO_CORELIB_TYPE_BUILDER_HPP
00040 
00041 #include <vector>
00042 #include "../base/DataSourceBase.hpp"
00043 
00044 namespace RTT
00045 { namespace types {
00046 
00050     struct RTT_API TypeConstructor
00051     {
00052         virtual ~TypeConstructor();
00057         virtual base::DataSourceBase::shared_ptr build(const std::vector<base::DataSourceBase::shared_ptr>& args) const = 0;
00058 
00062         virtual base::DataSourceBase::shared_ptr convert(base::DataSourceBase::shared_ptr arg) const;
00063     };
00064 }}
00065 
00066 #endif