H5EnumType.h

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#ifndef __H5EnumType_H
#define __H5EnumType_H

namespace H5 {

//  Inheritance: DataType -> H5Object -> H5Location -> IdComponent
class H5_DLLCPP EnumType : public DataType {

   public:
        // Creates an empty enumeration datatype based on a native signed
        // integer type, whose size is given by size.
        EnumType(size_t size);

        // Gets the enum datatype of the specified dataset
        EnumType(const DataSet& dataset);  // H5Dget_type

        // Creates a new enum datatype based on an integer datatype
        EnumType(const IntType& data_type);  // H5Tenum_create

        // Constructors that open an enum datatype, given a location.
        EnumType(const H5Location& loc, const char* name);
        EnumType(const H5Location& loc, const H5std_string& name);

        // Returns an EnumType object via DataType* by decoding the
        // binary object description of this type.
        virtual DataType* decode() const;

        // Returns the number of members in this enumeration datatype.
        int getNmembers () const;

        // Returns the index of a member in this enumeration data type.
        int getMemberIndex(const char* name) const;
        int getMemberIndex(const H5std_string& name) const;

        // Returns the value of an enumeration datatype member
        void getMemberValue(unsigned memb_no, void *value) const;

        // Inserts a new member to this enumeration type.
        void insert(const char* name, void *value) const;
        void insert(const H5std_string& name, void *value) const;

        // Returns the symbol name corresponding to a specified member
        // of this enumeration datatype.
        H5std_string nameOf(void *value, size_t size) const;

        // Returns the value corresponding to a specified member of this
        // enumeration datatype.
        void valueOf(const char* name, void *value) const;
        void valueOf(const H5std_string& name, void *value) const;

        virtual H5std_string fromClass () const { return("EnumType"); }

        // Default constructor
        EnumType();

        // Creates an enumeration datatype using an existing id
        EnumType(const hid_t existing_id);

        // Copy constructor: same as the original EnumType.
        EnumType(const EnumType& original);

        virtual ~EnumType();

}; // end of EnumType
} // namespace H5

#endif // __H5EnumType_H