/**
 * 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 load_prc_file.h
 * @author drose
 * @date 2004-10-22
 */

#ifndef LOAD_PRC_FILE_H
#define LOAD_PRC_FILE_H

#include "pandabase.h"
#include "filename.h"

class ConfigPage;
class HashVal;

BEGIN_PUBLISH
/**
 * A convenience function for loading explicit prc files from a disk file or
 * from within a multifile (via the virtual file system).  Save the return
 * value and pass it to unload_prc_file() if you ever want to unload this file
 * later.
 *
 * The filename is first searched along the default prc search path, and then
 * also along the model path, for convenience.
 *
 * This function is defined in putil instead of in dtool with the read of the
 * prc stuff, so that it can take advantage of the virtual file system (which
 * is defined in express), and the model path (which is in putil).
 */
EXPCL_PANDA_PUTIL ConfigPage *
load_prc_file(const Filename &filename);

/**
 * Another convenience function to load a prc file from an explicit string,
 * which represents the contents of the prc file.
 *
 * The first parameter is an arbitrary name to assign to this in-memory prc
 * file.  Supply a filename if the data was read from a file, or use any other
 * name that is meaningful to you.  The name is only used when the set of
 * loaded prc files is listed.
 */
EXPCL_PANDA_PUTIL ConfigPage *
load_prc_file_data(const std::string &name, const std::string &data);

/**
 * Unloads (and deletes) a ConfigPage that represents a prc file that was
 * previously loaded by load_prc_file().  Returns true if successful, false if
 * the file was unknown.
 *
 * After this function has been called, the ConfigPage pointer is no longer
 * valid and should not be used again.
 */
EXPCL_PANDA_PUTIL bool
unload_prc_file(ConfigPage *page);

#ifdef HAVE_OPENSSL

/**
 * Fills HashVal with the hash from the current prc file state as reported by
 * ConfigVariableManager::write_prc_variables().
 */
EXPCL_PANDA_PUTIL void
hash_prc_variables(HashVal &hash);

#endif  // HAVE_OPENSSL


END_PUBLISH

#endif