[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / variant.h

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Name:        variant.h
// Purpose:     wxVariant class, container for any type
// Author:      Julian Smart
// Modified by:
// Created:     10/09/98
// RCS-ID:      $Id$
// Copyright:   (c)
// Licence:     wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#ifndef _WX_VARIANT_H_
#define _WX_VARIANT_H_

#if defined(__GNUG__) && !defined(NO_GCC_PRAGMA)
#pragma interface "variant.h"
#endif

#include "wx/defs.h"
#include "wx/object.h"
#include "wx/string.h"
#include "wx/arrstr.h"
#include "wx/list.h"

#if wxUSE_DATETIME
    #include "wx/datetime.h"
#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME

#if wxUSE_ODBC
    #include "wx/db.h"  // will #include sqltypes.h
#endif //ODBC

#include "wx/iosfwrap.h"

/*
 * wxVariantData stores the actual data in a wxVariant object,
 * to allow it to store any type of data.
 * Derive from this to provide custom data handling.
 *
 * TODO: in order to replace wxPropertyValue, we would need
 * to consider adding constructors that take pointers to C++ variables,
 * or removing that functionality from the wxProperty library.
 * Essentially wxPropertyValue takes on some of the wxValidator functionality
 * by storing pointers and not just actual values, allowing update of C++ data
 * to be handled automatically. Perhaps there's another way of doing this without
 * overloading wxVariant with unnecessary functionality.
 */

class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxVariantData: public wxObject
{
DECLARE_ABSTRACT_CLASS(wxVariantData)
public:

// Construction & destruction
    wxVariantData() {}

// Override these to provide common functionality
    // Copy to data
    virtual void Copy(wxVariantData& data) = 0;
    virtual bool Eq(wxVariantData& data) const = 0;
#if wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM
    virtual bool Write(wxSTD ostream& str) const = 0;
#endif
    virtual bool Write(wxString& str) const = 0;
#if wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM
    virtual bool Read(wxSTD istream& str) = 0;
#endif
    virtual bool Read(wxString& str) = 0;
    // What type is it? Return a string name.
    virtual wxString GetType() const = 0;
    // If it based on wxObject return the ClassInfo.
    virtual wxClassInfo* GetValueClassInfo() { return NULL; }
};

/*
 * wxVariant can store any kind of data, but has some basic types
 * built in.
 * NOTE: this eventually should have a reference-counting implementation.
 * PLEASE, if you change it to ref-counting, make sure it doesn't involve bloating
 * this class too much.
 */

class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxVariant: public wxObject
{
DECLARE_DYNAMIC_CLASS(wxVariant)
public:

// Construction & destruction
    wxVariant();
    wxVariant(double val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString);
    wxVariant(long val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString);
#ifdef HAVE_BOOL
    wxVariant(bool val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString);
#endif
    wxVariant(char val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString);
    wxVariant(const wxString& val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString);
    wxVariant(const wxChar* val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // Necessary or VC++ assumes bool!
    wxVariant(const wxStringList& val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString);
    wxVariant(const wxList& val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // List of variants
    wxVariant(void* ptr, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // void* (general purpose)
    wxVariant(wxObject* ptr, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); //wxObject
    wxVariant(wxVariantData* data, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // User-defined data
#if wxUSE_DATETIME
    wxVariant(const wxDateTime& val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // Date
#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME
    wxVariant(const wxArrayString& val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // String array
#if wxUSE_ODBC
    wxVariant(const DATE_STRUCT* valptr, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // DateTime
    wxVariant(const TIME_STRUCT* valptr, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // DateTime
    wxVariant(const TIMESTAMP_STRUCT* valptr, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // DateTime
#endif

    wxVariant(const wxVariant& variant);
    ~wxVariant();

// Generic operators
    // Assignment
    void operator= (const wxVariant& variant);

#if wxUSE_DATETIME
    bool operator== (const wxDateTime& value) const;
    bool operator!= (const wxDateTime& value) const;
    void operator= (const wxDateTime& value) ;
#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME

    bool operator== (const wxArrayString& value) const;
    bool operator!= (const wxArrayString& value) const;
    void operator= (const wxArrayString& value) ;
#if wxUSE_ODBC
    void operator= (const DATE_STRUCT* value) ;
    void operator= (const TIME_STRUCT* value) ;
    void operator= (const TIMESTAMP_STRUCT* value) ;
#endif

    // Assignment using data, e.g.
    // myVariant = new wxStringVariantData("hello");
    void operator= (wxVariantData* variantData);
    bool operator== (const wxVariant& variant) const;
    bool operator!= (const wxVariant& variant) const;

// Specific operators
    bool operator== (double value) const;
    bool operator!= (double value) const;
    void operator= (double value) ;
    bool operator== (long value) const;
    bool operator!= (long value) const;
    void operator= (long value) ;
    bool operator== (char value) const;
    bool operator!= (char value) const;
    void operator= (char value) ;
#ifdef HAVE_BOOL
    bool operator== (bool value) const;
    bool operator!= (bool value) const;
    void operator= (bool value) ;
#endif
    bool operator== (const wxString& value) const;
    bool operator!= (const wxString& value) const;
    void operator= (const wxString& value) ;
    void operator= (const wxChar* value) ; // Necessary or VC++ assumes bool!
    bool operator== (const wxStringList& value) const;
    bool operator!= (const wxStringList& value) const;
    void operator= (const wxStringList& value) ;
    bool operator== (const wxList& value) const;
    bool operator!= (const wxList& value) const;
    void operator= (const wxList& value) ;
    bool operator== (void* value) const;
    bool operator!= (void* value) const;
    void operator= (void* value) ;

    // Treat a list variant as an array
    wxVariant operator[] (size_t idx) const;
    wxVariant& operator[] (size_t idx) ;

    // Implicit conversion to a wxString
    inline operator wxString () const {  return MakeString(); }
    wxString MakeString() const;

    // Other implicit conversions
    inline operator double () const {  return GetDouble(); }
    inline operator char () const {  return GetChar(); }
    inline operator long () const {  return GetLong(); }
    inline operator bool () const {  return GetBool(); }
    inline operator void* () const {  return GetVoidPtr(); }
    // No implicit conversion to wxObject, as that would really
    //  confuse people between conversion to our contained data
    //  and downcasting to see our base type.
#if wxUSE_DATETIME
    inline operator wxDateTime () const { return GetDateTime(); }
#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME

// Accessors
    // Sets/gets name
    inline void SetName(const wxString& name) { m_name = name; }
    inline const wxString& GetName() const { return m_name; }

    // Tests whether there is data
    inline bool IsNull() const { return (m_data == (wxVariantData*) NULL); }

    wxVariantData* GetData() const { return m_data; }
    void SetData(wxVariantData* data) ;

    // Returns a string representing the type of the variant,
    // e.g. "string", "bool", "stringlist", "list", "double", "long"
    wxString GetType() const;

    bool IsType(const wxString& type) const;
    bool IsValueKindOf(const wxClassInfo* type) const;

    // Return the number of elements in a list
    int GetCount() const;

// Value accessors
    double GetReal() const ;
    inline double GetDouble() const { return GetReal(); };
    long GetInteger() const ;
    inline long GetLong() const { return GetInteger(); };
    char GetChar() const ;
    bool GetBool() const ;
    wxString GetString() const ;
    wxList& GetList() const ;
    wxStringList& GetStringList() const ;

    void* GetVoidPtr() const ;
    wxObject* GetWxObjectPtr()  ;
#if wxUSE_DATETIME
    wxDateTime GetDateTime() const ;
#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME
    wxArrayString GetArrayString() const;

// Operations
    // Make NULL (i.e. delete the data)
    void MakeNull();

    // Make empty list
    void NullList();

    // Append to list
    void Append(const wxVariant& value);

    // Insert at front of list
    void Insert(const wxVariant& value);

    // Returns true if the variant is a member of the list
    bool Member(const wxVariant& value) const;

    // Deletes the nth element of the list
    bool Delete(int item);

    // Clear list
    void ClearList();

// Implementation
public:
// Type conversion
    bool Convert(long* value) const;
    bool Convert(bool* value) const;
    bool Convert(double* value) const;
    bool Convert(wxString* value) const;
    bool Convert(char* value) const;
#if wxUSE_DATETIME
    bool Convert(wxDateTime* value) const;
#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME

// Attributes
protected:
    wxVariantData*  m_data;
    wxString        m_name;
};

//Since we want type safety wxVariant we need to fetch and dynamic_cast
//in a seemingly safe way so the compiler can check, so we define
//a dynamic_cast /wxDynamicCast analogue.

#define wxGetVariantCast(var,classname) \
    ((classname*)(var.IsValueKindOf(&classname::ms_classInfo) ?\
                  var.GetWxObjectPtr() : NULL));

extern wxVariant WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxNullVariant;

#endif
    // _WX_VARIANT_H_
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8cb50e4b JS	1	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	2	// Name: variant.h
	3	// Purpose: wxVariant class, container for any type
	4	// Author: Julian Smart
	5	// Modified by:
	6	// Created: 10/09/98
	7	// RCS-ID: $Id$
	8	// Copyright: (c)
65571936	9	// Licence: wxWindows licence
8cb50e4b JS	10	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	11
	12	#ifndef _WX_VARIANT_H_
	13	#define _WX_VARIANT_H_
	14
12028905	15	#if defined(__GNUG__) && !defined(NO_GCC_PRAGMA)
8cb50e4b JS	16	#pragma interface "variant.h"
	17	#endif
	18
	19	#include "wx/defs.h"
	20	#include "wx/object.h"
	21	#include "wx/string.h"
4c3ebca9	22	#include "wx/arrstr.h"
8cb50e4b JS	23	#include "wx/list.h"
8cb50e4b JS	24
e2b87f38 VZ	25	#if wxUSE_DATETIME
	26	#include "wx/datetime.h"
	27	#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME
edca7a82 GT	28
	29	#if wxUSE_ODBC
	30	#include "wx/db.h" // will #include sqltypes.h
	31	#endif //ODBC
	32
65f19af1	33	#include "wx/iosfwrap.h"
8cb50e4b JS	34
	35	/*
	36	* wxVariantData stores the actual data in a wxVariant object,
	37	* to allow it to store any type of data.
	38	* Derive from this to provide custom data handling.
	39	*
	40	* TODO: in order to replace wxPropertyValue, we would need
	41	* to consider adding constructors that take pointers to C++ variables,
	42	* or removing that functionality from the wxProperty library.
	43	* Essentially wxPropertyValue takes on some of the wxValidator functionality
	44	* by storing pointers and not just actual values, allowing update of C++ data
	45	* to be handled automatically. Perhaps there's another way of doing this without
	46	* overloading wxVariant with unnecessary functionality.
	47	*/
	48
bddd7a8d	49	class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxVariantData: public wxObject
8cb50e4b JS	50	{
	51	DECLARE_ABSTRACT_CLASS(wxVariantData)
	52	public:
	53
	54	// Construction & destruction
6fb99eb3	55	wxVariantData() {}
8cb50e4b JS	56
	57	// Override these to provide common functionality
	58	// Copy to data
	59	virtual void Copy(wxVariantData& data) = 0;
	60	virtual bool Eq(wxVariantData& data) const = 0;
38830220	61	#if wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM
dd107c50	62	virtual bool Write(wxSTD ostream& str) const = 0;
38830220	63	#endif
8cb50e4b	64	virtual bool Write(wxString& str) const = 0;
38830220	65	#if wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM
dd107c50	66	virtual bool Read(wxSTD istream& str) = 0;
38830220	67	#endif
8cb50e4b JS	68	virtual bool Read(wxString& str) = 0;
	69	// What type is it? Return a string name.
	70	virtual wxString GetType() const = 0;
cf6ae290 RG	71	// If it based on wxObject return the ClassInfo.
cf6ae290 RG	72	virtual wxClassInfo* GetValueClassInfo() { return NULL; }
8cb50e4b JS	73	};
	74
	75	/*
	76	* wxVariant can store any kind of data, but has some basic types
	77	* built in.
	78	* NOTE: this eventually should have a reference-counting implementation.
	79	* PLEASE, if you change it to ref-counting, make sure it doesn't involve bloating
	80	* this class too much.
	81	*/
	82
bddd7a8d	83	class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxVariant: public wxObject
8cb50e4b JS	84	{
	85	DECLARE_DYNAMIC_CLASS(wxVariant)
	86	public:
	87
	88	// Construction & destruction
	89	wxVariant();
e90c1d2a VZ	90	wxVariant(double val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString);
e90c1d2a VZ	91	wxVariant(long val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString);
57493f9f	92	#ifdef HAVE_BOOL
e90c1d2a	93	wxVariant(bool val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString);
57493f9f	94	#endif
e90c1d2a VZ	95	wxVariant(char val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString);
	96	wxVariant(const wxString& val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString);
	97	wxVariant(const wxChar* val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // Necessary or VC++ assumes bool!
	98	wxVariant(const wxStringList& val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString);
	99	wxVariant(const wxList& val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // List of variants
e90c1d2a	100	wxVariant(void* ptr, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // void* (general purpose)
cab1a605	101	wxVariant(wxObject* ptr, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); //wxObject
e90c1d2a	102	wxVariant(wxVariantData* data, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // User-defined data
e2b87f38	103	#if wxUSE_DATETIME
edca7a82	104	wxVariant(const wxDateTime& val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // Date
e2b87f38	105	#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME
fb42d7c3	106	wxVariant(const wxArrayString& val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // String array
edca7a82 GT	107	#if wxUSE_ODBC
	108	wxVariant(const DATE_STRUCT* valptr, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // DateTime
	109	wxVariant(const TIME_STRUCT* valptr, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // DateTime
	110	wxVariant(const TIMESTAMP_STRUCT* valptr, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString); // DateTime
	111	#endif
cab1a605	112
8cb50e4b	113	wxVariant(const wxVariant& variant);
8cb50e4b JS	114	~wxVariant();
	115
	116	// Generic operators
	117	// Assignment
	118	void operator= (const wxVariant& variant);
	119
e2b87f38	120	#if wxUSE_DATETIME
edca7a82 GT	121	bool operator== (const wxDateTime& value) const;
	122	bool operator!= (const wxDateTime& value) const;
	123	void operator= (const wxDateTime& value) ;
e2b87f38	124	#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME
fb42d7c3 VZ	125
	126	bool operator== (const wxArrayString& value) const;
	127	bool operator!= (const wxArrayString& value) const;
	128	void operator= (const wxArrayString& value) ;
edca7a82 GT	129	#if wxUSE_ODBC
	130	void operator= (const DATE_STRUCT* value) ;
	131	void operator= (const TIME_STRUCT* value) ;
	132	void operator= (const TIMESTAMP_STRUCT* value) ;
	133	#endif
edca7a82	134
8cb50e4b JS	135	// Assignment using data, e.g.
	136	// myVariant = new wxStringVariantData("hello");
	137	void operator= (wxVariantData* variantData);
	138	bool operator== (const wxVariant& variant) const;
	139	bool operator!= (const wxVariant& variant) const;
	140
	141	// Specific operators
	142	bool operator== (double value) const;
	143	bool operator!= (double value) const;
	144	void operator= (double value) ;
	145	bool operator== (long value) const;
	146	bool operator!= (long value) const;
	147	void operator= (long value) ;
	148	bool operator== (char value) const;
	149	bool operator!= (char value) const;
	150	void operator= (char value) ;
57493f9f	151	#ifdef HAVE_BOOL
8cb50e4b JS	152	bool operator== (bool value) const;
	153	bool operator!= (bool value) const;
	154	void operator= (bool value) ;
57493f9f	155	#endif
8cb50e4b JS	156	bool operator== (const wxString& value) const;
	157	bool operator!= (const wxString& value) const;
	158	void operator= (const wxString& value) ;
2ed57eb7	159	void operator= (const wxChar* value) ; // Necessary or VC++ assumes bool!
8cb50e4b JS	160	bool operator== (const wxStringList& value) const;
	161	bool operator!= (const wxStringList& value) const;
	162	void operator= (const wxStringList& value) ;
	163	bool operator== (const wxList& value) const;
	164	bool operator!= (const wxList& value) const;
	165	void operator= (const wxList& value) ;
a0a302dc JS	166	bool operator== (void* value) const;
	167	bool operator!= (void* value) const;
	168	void operator= (void* value) ;
8cb50e4b JS	169
	170	// Treat a list variant as an array
	171	wxVariant operator[] (size_t idx) const;
	172	wxVariant& operator[] (size_t idx) ;
	173
	174	// Implicit conversion to a wxString
	175	inline operator wxString () const { return MakeString(); }
	176	wxString MakeString() const;
	177
	178	// Other implicit conversions
	179	inline operator double () const { return GetDouble(); }
a0a302dc	180	inline operator char () const { return GetChar(); }
8cb50e4b JS	181	inline operator long () const { return GetLong(); }
8cb50e4b JS	182	inline operator bool () const { return GetBool(); }
a0a302dc	183	inline operator void* () const { return GetVoidPtr(); }
cf6ae290 RG	184	// No implicit conversion to wxObject, as that would really
	185	// confuse people between conversion to our contained data
	186	// and downcasting to see our base type.
e2b87f38	187	#if wxUSE_DATETIME
edca7a82	188	inline operator wxDateTime () const { return GetDateTime(); }
e2b87f38	189	#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME
8cb50e4b JS	190
8cb50e4b JS	191	// Accessors
a0a302dc JS	192	// Sets/gets name
	193	inline void SetName(const wxString& name) { m_name = name; }
	194	inline const wxString& GetName() const { return m_name; }
	195
8cb50e4b JS	196	// Tests whether there is data
	197	inline bool IsNull() const { return (m_data == (wxVariantData*) NULL); }
	198
	199	wxVariantData* GetData() const { return m_data; }
	200	void SetData(wxVariantData* data) ;
	201
	202	// Returns a string representing the type of the variant,
	203	// e.g. "string", "bool", "stringlist", "list", "double", "long"
	204	wxString GetType() const;
	205
	206	bool IsType(const wxString& type) const;
cf6ae290	207	bool IsValueKindOf(const wxClassInfo* type) const;
8cb50e4b JS	208
	209	// Return the number of elements in a list
	210	int GetCount() const;
	211
	212	// Value accessors
	213	double GetReal() const ;
	214	inline double GetDouble() const { return GetReal(); };
	215	long GetInteger() const ;
	216	inline long GetLong() const { return GetInteger(); };
	217	char GetChar() const ;
	218	bool GetBool() const ;
	219	wxString GetString() const ;
	220	wxList& GetList() const ;
	221	wxStringList& GetStringList() const ;
457e6c54	222
a0a302dc	223	void* GetVoidPtr() const ;
cf6ae290	224	wxObject* GetWxObjectPtr() ;
e2b87f38	225	#if wxUSE_DATETIME
edca7a82	226	wxDateTime GetDateTime() const ;
e2b87f38	227	#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME
fb42d7c3	228	wxArrayString GetArrayString() const;
8cb50e4b JS	229
	230	// Operations
	231	// Make NULL (i.e. delete the data)
	232	void MakeNull();
	233
	234	// Make empty list
	235	void NullList();
	236
	237	// Append to list
	238	void Append(const wxVariant& value);
	239
	240	// Insert at front of list
	241	void Insert(const wxVariant& value);
	242
cab1a605	243	// Returns true if the variant is a member of the list
8cb50e4b JS	244	bool Member(const wxVariant& value) const;
	245
	246	// Deletes the nth element of the list
	247	bool Delete(int item);
	248
	249	// Clear list
	250	void ClearList();
	251
a0a302dc	252	// Implementation
9708db20	253	public:
8cb50e4b JS	254	// Type conversion
	255	bool Convert(long* value) const;
	256	bool Convert(bool* value) const;
	257	bool Convert(double* value) const;
	258	bool Convert(wxString* value) const;
	259	bool Convert(char* value) const;
e2b87f38	260	#if wxUSE_DATETIME
edca7a82	261	bool Convert(wxDateTime* value) const;
e2b87f38	262	#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME
8cb50e4b JS	263
	264	// Attributes
	265	protected:
	266	wxVariantData* m_data;
a0a302dc	267	wxString m_name;
8cb50e4b JS	268	};
8cb50e4b JS	269
cf6ae290	270	//Since we want type safety wxVariant we need to fetch and dynamic_cast
cab1a605	271	//in a seemingly safe way so the compiler can check, so we define
cf6ae290 RG	272	//a dynamic_cast /wxDynamicCast analogue.
	273
	274	#define wxGetVariantCast(var,classname) \
cab1a605 WS	275	((classname*)(var.IsValueKindOf(&classname::ms_classInfo) ?\
cab1a605 WS	276	var.GetWxObjectPtr() : NULL));
cf6ae290	277
bddd7a8d	278	extern wxVariant WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxNullVariant;
a0a302dc	279
8cb50e4b JS	280	#endif
8cb50e4b JS	281	// _WX_VARIANT_H_