/**
 * PANDA 3D SOFTWARE
 * Copyright (c) Carnegie Mellon University.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * All use of this software is subject to the terms of the revised BSD
 * license.  You should have received a copy of this license along
 * with this source code in a file named "LICENSE."
 *
 * @file factoryParams.h
 * @author drose
 * @date 2000-05-08
 */

#ifndef FACTORYPARAMS_H
#define FACTORYPARAMS_H

#include "pandabase.h"

#include "typedObject.h"
#include "typedReferenceCount.h"
#include "pointerTo.h"
#include "factoryParam.h"
#include "dcast.h"

#include "pvector.h"

/**
 * An instance of this class is passed to the Factory when requesting it to do
 * its business and construct a new something.  It can be filled with optional
 * parameters to the CreateFunc for the particular subclass the Factory will
 * be creating.
 *
 * This is just a vector of pointers to *something*; it will be up to the
 * individual CreateFuncs to interpret this meaningfully.
 */
class EXPCL_PANDA_PUTIL FactoryParams {
public:
  FactoryParams() = default;
  FactoryParams(const FactoryParams &copy) = default;
  FactoryParams(FactoryParams &&from) noexcept = default;
  ~FactoryParams() = default;

  FactoryParams &operator = (FactoryParams &&from) noexcept = default;

  void add_param(FactoryParam *param);
  void clear();

  int get_num_params() const;
  FactoryParam *get_param(int n) const;

  FactoryParam *get_param_of_type(TypeHandle type) const;

  INLINE void *get_user_data() const;

private:
  typedef pvector< PT(TypedReferenceCount) > Params;

  Params _params;
  void *_user_data = nullptr;

  friend class FactoryBase;
};

template<class ParamType>
INLINE bool get_param_into(ParamType *&pointer, const FactoryParams &params);

#include "factoryParams.I"

#endif