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// Copyright (c) 2013, German Neuroinformatics Node (G-Node)
//
// All rights reserved.
//
// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
// modification, are permitted under the terms of the BSD License. See
// LICENSE file in the root of the Project.
//

#ifndef NIX_IGROUP_HPP
#define NIX_IGROUP_HPP

#include <nix/base/IEntityWithSources.hpp>
#include <nix/base/ISource.hpp>
#include <nix/base/IDataArray.hpp>
#include <nix/base/ITag.hpp>
#include <nix/base/IMultiTag.hpp>
#include <nix/NDSize.hpp>
#include <nix/Tag.hpp>
#include <nix/MultiTag.hpp>
#include <nix/ObjectType.hpp>
#include <nix/Identity.hpp>


namespace nix {
namespace base {

class NIXAPI IGroup : virtual public IEntityWithSources {

public:

    virtual bool hasEntity(const nix::Identity &ident) const = 0;

    virtual std::shared_ptr<base::IEntity> getEntity(const nix::Identity &ident) const = 0;

    virtual std::shared_ptr<base::IEntity> getEntity(ObjectType type, ndsize_t index) const = 0;

    virtual ndsize_t entityCount(ObjectType type) const = 0;

    virtual bool removeEntity(const nix::Identity &ident) = 0;

    virtual void addEntity(const nix::Identity &ident) = 0;

    template<typename T>
    std::shared_ptr<T> getEntity(const nix::Identity &ident) const {
        return std::dynamic_pointer_cast<T>(this->getEntity(ident));
    }

    template<typename T>
    std::shared_ptr<T> getEntity(const std::string &name_or_id) const {
        ObjectType ot = objectToType<T>::value;
        return std::dynamic_pointer_cast<T>(this->getEntity({name_or_id, ot}));
    }

    template<typename T>
    std::shared_ptr<T> getEntity(ndsize_t index) const {
        ObjectType ot = objectToType<T>::value;
        return std::dynamic_pointer_cast<T>(this->getEntity(ot, index));
    }

    virtual ~IGroup() {}
};

} // namespace base

template<>
struct objectToType<nix::base::IGroup> {
    static const bool isValid = true;
    static const ObjectType value = ObjectType::Group;
};

} // namespace nix

#endif //NIX_IGROUP_HPP