libGlass: serial.h Source File

00001 /*  Glass - a distributed computing library
00002     Copyright (C) 2003-2009 Bruno Barberi Gnecco
00003     Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Corollarium Technologies
00004 
00005 
00006     This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
00007     modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
00008     License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
00009     version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
00010 
00011     This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
00012     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
00013     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
00014     Lesser General Public License for more details.
00015 
00016     You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
00017     License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
00018     Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
00019  */
00020 
00021 #ifndef _GLASS_SERIAL_HH_
00022 #define _GLASS_SERIAL_HH_
00023 
00024 #include "types.h"
00025 #include "chain.h"
00026 #include "exception.h"
00027 
00028 namespace libglass {
00029 
00085 class SerializableObject {
00086 public:
00087         SerializableObject() { }
00088 
00092         virtual ~SerializableObject() { }
00093         
00099         virtual const string * name(void) const = 0;
00100 
00106         virtual SerializableObject *create() const throw(Exception) = 0;
00107 
00112         virtual SerializableObject *create(const chain &s) const 
00113                         throw(Exception) = 0;
00114 
00120         virtual bool pack(chain &c) = 0;
00121 
00129         virtual bool unpack(const chain &c) = 0;
00130 };
00131 
00145 class RegisterObject {
00146 public:
00147         RegisterObject(SerializableObject *o);
00148 };
00149 
00150 
00151 }
00152 
00153 #endif // _GLASS_SERIAL_HH_