MeVisLab/Standard/Sources/ML/MLBase/mlListParser.h

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// **InsertLicense** code
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

//
// - ParserBase is a base class from which special parser classes can be derived.
// - ListParser (derived from ParserBase) is a parser class for parsing persistent 
//   state strings of list objects.
// - BaseItemParser (derived from ParserBase) is a parser class for BaseItem strings.
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#ifndef __mlListParser_H
#define __mlListParser_H


// ML-includes
#ifndef __mlBaseInit_H
#include "mlBaseInit.h"
#endif
#ifndef __mlParserBase_H
#include "mlParserBase.h"
#endif

// For backward compatibility also include BaseItemParser.
#ifndef __mlBaseItemParser_H
#include "mlBaseItemParser.h"
#endif


ML_START_NAMESPACE

// ------------------------------------------------------------------
// Class ListParser 
// ------------------------------------------------------------------

class MLBASEEXPORT ListParser : public ParserBase
{
public:

  ListParser () : ParserBase() {}


  virtual int init (const char *source);

  int nextItemString (char *&itemString);

  virtual const char *getErrorMessage (int errorCode);

  enum {
         kMissingOpenBracket = kNumBaseErrorCodes,
         kMissingCloseBracket,
         kUnmatchedQuote,
         kNumErrorCodes           
       };


  static bool needsQuote (char *itemStr);
  
  static char *quoteString (char *itemStr);


protected:

  int unquoteString (std::string &itemString);

};

ML_END_NAMESPACE

#endif // __mlListParser_H