dox/Common/vtkSmartPointerBase.h

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

  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    vtkSmartPointerBase.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 __vtkSmartPointerBase_h
#define __vtkSmartPointerBase_h

#include "vtkObjectBase.h"

class VTK_COMMON_EXPORT vtkSmartPointerBase
{
public:
  vtkSmartPointerBase();

  vtkSmartPointerBase(vtkObjectBase* r);

  vtkSmartPointerBase(const vtkSmartPointerBase& r);

  ~vtkSmartPointerBase();


  vtkSmartPointerBase& operator=(vtkObjectBase* r);
  vtkSmartPointerBase& operator=(const vtkSmartPointerBase& r);


  vtkObjectBase* GetPointer() const
    {
    // Inline implementation so smart pointer comparisons can be fully
    // inlined.
    return this->Object;
    }

  void Report(vtkGarbageCollector* collector, const char* desc);

protected:

  // Initialize smart pointer to given object, but do not increment
  // reference count.  The destructor will still decrement the count.
  // This effectively makes it an auto-ptr.
  class NoReference {};
  vtkSmartPointerBase(vtkObjectBase* r, const NoReference&);

  // Pointer to the actual object.
  vtkObjectBase* Object;

private:
  // Internal utility methods.
  void Swap(vtkSmartPointerBase& r);
  void Register();
};

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#define VTK_SMART_POINTER_BASE_DEFINE_OPERATOR(op) \
  inline bool \
  operator op (const vtkSmartPointerBase& l, const vtkSmartPointerBase& r) \
    { \
    return (static_cast<void*>(l.GetPointer()) op \
            static_cast<void*>(r.GetPointer())); \
    } \
  inline bool \
  operator op (vtkObjectBase* l, const vtkSmartPointerBase& r) \
    { \
    return (static_cast<void*>(l) op static_cast<void*>(r.GetPointer())); \
    } \
  inline bool \
  operator op (const vtkSmartPointerBase& l, vtkObjectBase* r) \
    { \
    return (static_cast<void*>(l.GetPointer()) op static_cast<void*>(r)); \
    }


VTK_SMART_POINTER_BASE_DEFINE_OPERATOR(==)
VTK_SMART_POINTER_BASE_DEFINE_OPERATOR(!=)
VTK_SMART_POINTER_BASE_DEFINE_OPERATOR(<)
VTK_SMART_POINTER_BASE_DEFINE_OPERATOR(<=)
VTK_SMART_POINTER_BASE_DEFINE_OPERATOR(>)
VTK_SMART_POINTER_BASE_DEFINE_OPERATOR(>=)

#undef VTK_SMART_POINTER_BASE_DEFINE_OPERATOR


VTK_COMMON_EXPORT ostream& operator << (ostream& os,
                                        const vtkSmartPointerBase& p);

#endif