Orocos Real-Time Toolkit: rtt/types/TypeMarshaller.hpp Source File

00001 /***************************************************************************
00002   tag: Peter Soetens  Thu Oct 22 11:59:08 CEST 2009  TypeMarshaller.hpp
00003 
00004                         TypeMarshaller.hpp -  description
00005                            -------------------
00006     begin                : Thu October 22 2009
00007     copyright            : (C) 2009 Peter Soetens
00008     email                : peter@thesourcworks.com
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00037 
00038 
00039 /*
00040  * TypeMarshaller.hpp
00041  *
00042  *  Created on: Sep 17, 2009
00043  *      Author: kaltan
00044  */
00045 
00046 #ifndef TYPEMARSHALLER_HPP_
00047 #define TYPEMARSHALLER_HPP_
00048 
00049 #include "TypeTransporter.hpp"
00050 
00051 namespace RTT
00052 {
00053 
00054     namespace types
00055     {
00056 
00061         class TypeMarshaller: public RTT::types::TypeTransporter
00062         {
00063         public:
00068             virtual void* createCookie() const { return 0; }
00070             virtual void deleteCookie(void* cookie) const {}
00084             virtual std::pair<void const*,int> fillBlob( base::DataSourceBase::shared_ptr source, void* blob, int size, void* cookie = 0) const = 0;
00085 
00091             virtual bool updateFromBlob(const void* blob, int size, base::DataSourceBase::shared_ptr target, void* cookie = 0) const = 0;
00092 
00097             virtual unsigned int getSampleSize( base::DataSourceBase::shared_ptr sample, void* cookie = 0) const = 0;
00098 
00099         };
00100 
00101     }
00102 
00103 }
00104 
00105 #endif /* TYPEMARSHALLER_HPP_ */