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// Teuchos: Common Tools Package
// Copyright (2004) Sandia Corporation
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#ifndef TEUCHOS_SERIALIZER_HPP
#define TEUCHOS_SERIALIZER_HPP
#include "Teuchos_RCP.hpp"
namespace Teuchos {
/** \brief Strategy interface for the indirect serializing and deserializing
* objects of a given type handled using reference semantics.
*
* This interface serializes and serializes objects of type <tt>T</tt> to and
* from independent <tt>char[]</tt> buffer arrays. Direct serialization (i.e.
* just using reinterpret casts) is not possible using this interface.
*/
template<typename Ordinal, typename T>
class Serializer {
public:
/** \brief . */
virtual ~Serializer() {}
/** \brief Return an estimate for the maximum storage for <tt>count</tt>
* objects to be serialized.
*/
virtual Ordinal getBufferSize(const Ordinal count) const = 0;
/** \brief Serialize an object to a <tt>char[]</tt> buffer.
*
* \param count
* [in] Number of objects to be serialized.
* \param objs
* [in] Array (length <tt>count</tt>) for the objects to be serialized.
* \param bytes
* [in] Length of the buffer <tt>charBuffer[]</tt>
* \param charBuffer
* [out] Array (length <tt>bytes</tt>) that contains the serialized objects.
*
* <b>Preconditions:</b><ul>
* <li><tt>count > 0</tt>
* <li><tt>objs != NULL</tt>
* <li><tt>charBuffer != NULL</tt>
* <tt><tt>bytes == getBufferSize(count)</tt>
* </ul>
*/
virtual void serialize(
const Ordinal count
,const T * const objs[]
,const Ordinal bytes
,char charBuffer[]
) const = 0;
/** \brief Create an object of type <tt>T</tt> to be serialized into.
*/
virtual RCP<T> createObj() const = 0;
/** \brief Deserialize an object from a <tt>char[]</tt> buffer.
*
* \param bytes
* [in] Length of the buffer <tt>charBuffer[]</tt>
* \param charBuffer
* [in] Array (length <tt>bytes</tt>) that contains the serialized objects.
* \param count
* [in] Number of objects to be deserialized.
* \param objs
* [out] Array (length <tt>count</tt>) for the deserialized objects.
*
* <b>Preconditions:</b><ul>
* <li><tt>bytes > 0</tt>
* <li><tt>objs != NULL</tt>
* <li><tt>charBuffer != NULL</tt>
* <tt><tt>bytes == getBufferSize(count)</tt>
* </ul>
*/
virtual void deserialize(
const Ordinal bytes
,const char charBuffer[]
,const Ordinal count
,T * const objs[]
) const = 0;
};
} // namespace Teuchos
#endif // TEUCHOS_SERIALIZER_HPP