TlpTools.h

/*
 *
 * This file is part of Tulip (www.tulip-software.org)
 *
 * Authors: David Auber and the Tulip development Team
 * from LaBRI, University of Bordeaux
 *
 * Tulip is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * Tulip is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 * See the GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 */

#ifndef _TLPTOOLS_H
#define _TLPTOOLS_H

#include <iostream>
#include <climits>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <tulip/tulipconf.h>

#ifdef WIN32
typedef struct _stat tlp_stat_t;
#else
typedef struct stat tlp_stat_t;
#endif

namespace tlp {
extern TLP_SCOPE const char PATH_DELIMITER;
extern TLP_SCOPE std::string TulipLibDir;
extern TLP_SCOPE std::string TulipPluginsPath;
extern TLP_SCOPE std::string TulipBitmapDir;
extern TLP_SCOPE std::string TulipShareDir;

/**
 * @ingroup Plugins
 *
 * @brief Initializes the Tulip library.
 * Looks for the Tulip plug-ins directory.
 * The plug-ins directory can be defined in different ways, given by order of prevalence :
 * 1. the TLP_DIR environment variable, if it has a value
 * 2. the appDirPath parameter, if it is not NULL
 * 3. at that point, the Tulip paths will be retrieved from the path of the loaded Tulip shared library
 *  (you must dispose of a standard Tulip installation for that feature to work).
 * 4. a fallback value of 'C:/Tulip/lib/' on windows, or '/usr/local/lib/' on Unix.
 */
extern TLP_SCOPE void initTulipLib(const char* appDirPath = NULL);

/**
 * @ingroup Plugins
 *
 * @brief Demangles the name of a C++ class
 * @param className The mangled name of a class
 * @param hideTlp a flag to indicate if the 'tlp::' prefix
 * @return string The demangled name of a Tulip C++ class.
 */
TLP_SCOPE std::string demangleClassName(const char *className,
                                        bool hideTlp = false);

/**
 * @ingroup Plugins
 *
 * @brief Demangles the name of a C++ class defined in the tlp namespace.
 * @param className The mangled name of a class
 * @return string The demangled name of a Tulip C++ class
 * without the tlp:: prefix
 */
inline std::string demangleTlpClassName(const char *className) {
  return demangleClassName(className, true);
}

/**
 * @brief Returns an istream to read from a gzipped file (uses gzstream lib).
 * The stream has to be deleted after use.
 * @param name The name of the file to read from.
 * @param open_mode The mode to open the file with. Defaults to std::ios::in.
 * @return istream gzipped input stream from a file.
 */
TLP_SCOPE std::istream *getIgzstream(const std::string &name, int open_mode = std::ios::in);

/**
 * @brief Returns an ostream to write to a gzipped file (uses gzstream lib).
 * The stream has to be deleted after use.
 * @warning Don't forget to check the stream with ios::bad()!
 * @param name The name of the file to write to.
 * @param open_mode The mode to open the file with. Defaults to std::ios::out.
 * @return ostream gzipped output stream to a file.
 */
TLP_SCOPE std::ostream *getOgzstream(const std::string &name, int open_mode = std::ios::out);

/**
 * @brief give the value of the seed used for further initialization
 * of a random sequence (with further calls to rand() or rand_r(...)).
 * @param seed the value of the seed.
 * Set seed to UINT_MAX if you need a random choice of the seed.
 */
TLP_SCOPE void setSeedOfRandomSequence(unsigned int seed = UINT_MAX);

/**
 * @brief return the value of the seed used for further initialization
 * of a random sequence
 */
TLP_SCOPE unsigned int getSeedOfRandomSequence();

/**
 * @brief initialize a random sequence with the seed previously set
 * Further calls to rand() or rand_r(...) will return the elements of
 * that sequence
 */
TLP_SCOPE void initRandomSequence();

/**
 * @brief Cross-platform function to stat a path on a filesystem. Its purpose is to support
 * paths on windows platform containing non-ascii characters.
 * @param pathname an utf-8 encoded string containing the path name to stat
 * @param buf a pointer to a tlp_stat_t structure (a typedef for struct stat)
 */
TLP_SCOPE int statPath(const std::string &pathname, tlp_stat_t *buf);

/**
 * @brief Cross-platform function to get an input file stream. Its purpose is to support
 * paths on windows platform containing non-ascii characters.
 * @param filename an utf-8 encoded string containing the path of the file to open for performing input operations
 * @param open_mode the stream opening mode flags (bitwise combination of std::ios_base::openmode constants).
 */
TLP_SCOPE std::istream *getInputFileStream(const std::string &filename, std::ios_base::openmode open_mode = std::ios::in);

/**
 * @brief Cross-platform function to get an output file stream. Its purpose is to support
 * paths on windows platform containing non-ascii characters.
 * @param filename an utf-8 encoded string containing the path of the file to open for performing output operations
 * @param open_mode the stream opening mode flags (bitwise combination of std::ios_base::openmode constants).
 */
TLP_SCOPE std::ostream *getOutputFileStream(const std::string &filename, std::ios_base::openmode open_mode = std::ios::out);

}

#endif