CompositionFactory.hpp

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  tag: Peter Soetens Fri Mar 16 21:32:02 2012 +0100 CompositionFactory.hpp

                        CompositionFactory.hpp -  description
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    begin                : Fri Mar 16 2012
    copyright            : (C) 2012 Peter Soetens
    email                : peter@thesourceworks.com

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#ifndef RTT__COMPOSITION_FACTORY_HPP
#define RTT__COMPOSITION_FACTORY_HPP

#include "../base/DataSourceBase.hpp"

namespace RTT {
    namespace types {

        class RTT_API CompositionFactory
        {
        public:
        virtual ~CompositionFactory() {};

        virtual bool composeType( base::DataSourceBase::shared_ptr source, base::DataSourceBase::shared_ptr target) const = 0;

        virtual base::DataSourceBase::shared_ptr decomposeType(base::DataSourceBase::shared_ptr source) const;

        virtual base::DataSourceBase::shared_ptr convertType(base::DataSourceBase::shared_ptr source) const;

        };

        typedef boost::shared_ptr<CompositionFactory> CompositionFactoryPtr;

    }
}

#endif