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H5IdComponent.h

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#ifndef _IdComponent_H
#define _IdComponent_H

// IdComponent provides a mechanism to handle
// reference counting for an identifier of any HDF5 object.

#ifndef H5_NO_NAMESPACE
namespace H5 {
#endif

class H5_DLLCPP IdComponent {
   public:
        // Increment reference counter.
        void incRefCount();

        // Decrement reference counter.
        void decRefCount();

        // Get the reference counter to this identifier.
        int getCounter();

        // Decrements the reference counter then determines if there are no more
        // reference to this object
        bool noReference();

        // Assignment operator
        IdComponent& operator=( const IdComponent& rhs );

        // Sets the identifier of this object to a new value.
        void setId( hid_t new_id );

        // Creates an object to hold an HDF5 identifier.
        IdComponent( const hid_t h5_id );

        // Copy constructor: makes copy of the original IdComponent object.
        IdComponent( const IdComponent& original );

        // Gets the value of IdComponent's data member.
        virtual hid_t getId () const;

#ifndef DOXYGEN_SHOULD_SKIP_THIS
        // Pure virtual function for there are various H5*close for the
        // subclasses.
        virtual void close() = 0;
#endif // DOXYGEN_SHOULD_SKIP_THIS

        // Destructor
        virtual ~IdComponent();

   protected:
#ifndef DOXYGEN_SHOULD_SKIP_THIS
        hid_t id;       // HDF5 object id

        // Default constructor.
        IdComponent();

        // Gets the name of the file, in which an HDF5 object belongs.
#ifndef H5_NO_STD
        std::string p_get_file_name() const;
#else
        string p_get_file_name() const;
#endif  // H5_NO_STD

        // Gets the id of the H5 file in which the given object is located.
        hid_t p_get_file_id();

        // Creates a reference to an HDF5 object or a dataset region.
        void* p_reference(const char* name, hid_t space_id, H5R_type_t ref_type) const;

        // Retrieves the type of object that an object reference points to.
        H5G_obj_t p_get_obj_type(void *ref, H5R_type_t ref_type) const;

        // Retrieves a dataspace with the region pointed to selected.
        hid_t p_get_region(void *ref, H5R_type_t ref_type) const;
#endif // DOXYGEN_SHOULD_SKIP_THIS

}; // end class IdComponent

#ifndef H5_NO_NAMESPACE
}
#endif
#endif

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