dox/Parallel/vtkMultiProcessStream.h

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/*=========================================================================

  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    vtkMultiProcessStream.h

  Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
  All rights reserved.
  See Copyright.txt or http://www.kitware.com/Copyright.htm for details.

     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notice for more information.

=========================================================================*/
#ifndef __vtkMultiProcessStream_h
#define __vtkMultiProcessStream_h

#include "vtkObject.h"
#include <vector> // needed for vector.
#include <string> // needed for string.

class VTK_PARALLEL_EXPORT vtkMultiProcessStream
{
public:
  vtkMultiProcessStream();
  vtkMultiProcessStream(const vtkMultiProcessStream&);
  ~vtkMultiProcessStream();
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator=(const vtkMultiProcessStream&);


  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator << (double value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator << (float value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator << (int value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator << (char value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator << (unsigned int value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator << (unsigned char value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator << (vtkTypeInt64 value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator << (vtkTypeUInt64 value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator << (const std::string& value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator << (const vtkMultiProcessStream&);


  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator >> (double &value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator >> (float &value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator >> (int &value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator >> (char &value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator >> (unsigned int &value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator >> (unsigned char &value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator >> (vtkTypeInt64 &value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator >> (vtkTypeUInt64 &value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator >> (std::string &value);
  vtkMultiProcessStream& operator >> (vtkMultiProcessStream&);

  void Reset();


  void GetRawData(std::vector<unsigned char>& data) const;
  void SetRawData(const std::vector<unsigned char>& data);
  void SetRawData(const unsigned char*, unsigned int size);

private:
  class vtkInternals;
  vtkInternals* Internals;
  unsigned char Endianness;
  enum 
    {
    BigEndian,
    LittleEndian
    };
};

#endif