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ola::messaging::FieldDescriptorGroup Class Reference

Detailed Description

A FieldDescriptor that consists of a group of FieldDescriptors. Groups can vary in size two ways. First, the group may contain a field which itself is of variable size (i.e. a string or another group). This type of message structure requires some other data in the message itself to indicate the field/group length and as such isn't supported.

An example of this type of group would be:

* +----------------+
* |    bool (1)    |
* +----------------+
* | string (0, 32) |
* +----------------+
* 

This could hold data like: (true, "foo"), (false, "bar)

The second (and simpler) type is where the group size is fixed (i.e. contains only fixed length fields) and the number of times the group appears in the message varies. By knowing the length of the message we can work out the number of times a group occurs (see VariableFieldSizeCalculator.h which does this).

An example of this type of group would be:

* +----------------+
* |    bool (1)    |
* +----------------+
* |   uint16 (2)   |
* +----------------+
* 

This could hold data like: (true, 1000), (false, 34)

DescriptorConsistencyChecker.h checks that a descriptor is the second type, that is contains at most one variable-sized field.

We refer to the datatypes within a group as fields, the actual instantiations of a group as blocks. In the examples above, bool, string and uint16 are the fields (represented by FieldDescriptorInterface objects) and (true, "foo") & (true, 1000) are the blocks.

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Public Member Functions

 FieldDescriptorGroup (const std::string &name, const std::vector< const FieldDescriptor *> &fields, uint16_t min_blocks, int16_t max_blocks)
 
bool FixedSize () const
 
bool LimitedSize () const
 
unsigned int MaxSize () const
 
unsigned int FieldCount () const
 
bool FixedBlockSize () const
 
unsigned int BlockSize () const
 
unsigned int MaxBlockSize () const
 
uint16_t MinBlocks () const
 
int16_t MaxBlocks () const
 
bool FixedBlockCount () const
 
const class FieldDescriptorGetField (unsigned int index) const
 
virtual void Accept (FieldDescriptorVisitor *visitor) const
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from ola::messaging::FieldDescriptor
 FieldDescriptor (const std::string &name)
 
const std::string & Name () const
 

Static Public Attributes

static const int16_t UNLIMITED_BLOCKS = -1
 

Protected Attributes

std::vector< const class FieldDescriptor * > m_fields
 

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files: