Orocos Real-Time Toolkit  2.5.0
BufferInterface.hpp
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00002   tag: Peter Soetens  Thu Oct 10 16:16:57 CEST 2002  BufferInterface.hpp
00003 
00004                         BufferInterface.hpp -  description
00005                            -------------------
00006     begin                : Thu October 10 2002
00007     copyright            : (C) 2002 Peter Soetens
00008     email                : peter.soetens@mech.kuleuven.ac.be
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00037 
00038 #ifndef ORO_CORELIB_BUFFERINTERFACE_HPP
00039 #define ORO_CORELIB_BUFFERINTERFACE_HPP
00040 
00041 #include "BufferBase.hpp"
00042 #include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
00043 #include <boost/call_traits.hpp>
00044 #include <vector>
00045 
00046 namespace RTT
00047 { namespace base {
00048 
00054     template<class T>
00055     class BufferInterface :
00056         public BufferBase
00057     {
00058     public:
00059         typedef T value_t;
00060         typedef BufferBase::size_type size_type;
00061 
00062         typedef boost::shared_ptr< BufferInterface<T> > shared_ptr;
00063         typedef typename boost::call_traits<T>::param_type param_t;
00064         typedef typename boost::call_traits<T>::reference reference_t;
00065 
00066         virtual ~BufferInterface()
00067         {}
00068 
00076         virtual bool Pop( reference_t item) = 0;
00077 
00086         virtual size_type Pop( std::vector<value_t>& items ) = 0;
00087 
00098     virtual value_t* PopWithoutRelease() = 0;
00099 
00104     virtual void Release(value_t *item) = 0;
00105     
00113         virtual bool Push( param_t item) = 0;
00114 
00122         virtual size_type Push( const std::vector<value_t>& items ) = 0;
00123 
00133         virtual void data_sample( const T& sample ) = 0;
00134     };
00135 }}
00136 
00137 #endif