haiku/headers/os/translation/Translator.h
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/*****************************************************************************/
// File: Translator.h
// Class: BTranslator
// Reimplemented by: Michael Wilber, Translation Kit Team
// Reimplementation: 2002-06-15
//
// Description: This file contains the BTranslator class, the base class for
// all translators that don't use the BeOS R4/R4.5 add-on method.
//
//
// Copyright (c) 2002 OpenBeOS Project
//
// Original Version: Copyright 1998, Be Incorporated, All Rights Reserved.
// Copyright 1995-1997, Jon Watte
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
// copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
// to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
// the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
// and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
// Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
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//
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// OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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// LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
// FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
// DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
/*****************************************************************************/
#ifndef _TRANSLATOR_H
#define _TRANSLATOR_H
#include <TranslationDefs.h>
#include <Archivable.h>
class BTranslator : public BArchivable {
public:
BTranslator();
// Sets refcount to 1 (the object is initially Acquired()'d once)
BTranslator *Acquire();
// return actual object and increment the refcount
BTranslator *Release();
// Decrements the refcount and returns pointer to the object.
// When the refcount is zero, NULL is returned and the object is
// deleted
int32 ReferenceCount();
// returns the refcount, THIS IS NOT THREAD SAFE, ITS ONLY FOR "FUN"
virtual const char *TranslatorName() const = 0;
// returns the short name of the translator
virtual const char *TranslatorInfo() const = 0;
// returns a verbose name/description for the translator
virtual int32 TranslatorVersion() const = 0;
// returns the version of the translator
virtual const translation_format *InputFormats(int32 *out_count)
const = 0;
// returns the input formats and the count of input formats
// that this translator supports
virtual const translation_format *OutputFormats(int32 *out_count)
const = 0;
// returns the output formats and the count of output formats
// that this translator supports
virtual status_t Identify(BPositionIO *inSource,
const translation_format *inFormat, BMessage *ioExtension,
translator_info *outInfo, uint32 outType) = 0;
// determines whether or not this translator can convert the
// data in inSource to the type outType
virtual status_t Translate(BPositionIO *inSource,
const translator_info *inInfo, BMessage *ioExtension,
uint32 outType, BPositionIO *outDestination) = 0;
// this function is the whole point of the Translation Kit,
// it translates the data in inSource to outDestination
// using the format outType
virtual status_t MakeConfigurationView(BMessage *ioExtension,
BView **outView, BRect *outExtent);
// this function creates a view that allows the user to
// configure the translator, this function is not
// required for all translators
virtual status_t GetConfigurationMessage(BMessage *ioExtension);
// puts information about the current configuration of the
// translator into ioExtension so that it can be used with
// Identify or Translate or whatever, this function is
// not required for all translators
protected:
virtual ~BTranslator();
// this is protected because the object is deleted by the
// Release() function instead of being deleted directly by
// the user
private:
int32 fRefCount;
// number of times this object has been referenced
// by the Acquire() function
sem_id fSem;
// used to lock object for Acquire() and Release()
// For binary compatibility with past and future
// version of this class
uint32 fUnused[8];
virtual status_t _Reserved_Translator_0(int32, void *);
virtual status_t _Reserved_Translator_1(int32, void *);
virtual status_t _Reserved_Translator_2(int32, void *);
virtual status_t _Reserved_Translator_3(int32, void *);
virtual status_t _Reserved_Translator_4(int32, void *);
virtual status_t _Reserved_Translator_5(int32, void *);
virtual status_t _Reserved_Translator_6(int32, void *);
virtual status_t _Reserved_Translator_7(int32, void *);
};
// The post-4.5 API suggests implementing this function in your translator
// add-on rather than the separate functions and variables of the previous
// API. You will be called for values of n starting at 0 and increasing;
// return 0 when you can't make another kind of translator (i.e. for n=1
// if you only implement one subclass of BTranslator). Ignore flags for now.
extern "C" _EXPORT BTranslator *make_nth_translator(int32 n, image_id you,
uint32 flags, ...);
#endif /* _TRANSLATOR_H */