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  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    $RCSfile: vtkDataArrayCollection.h,v $

  Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
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=========================================================================*/
// .NAME vtkDataArrayCollection - maintain an unordered list of dataarray objects
// .SECTION Description
// vtkDataArrayCollection is an object that creates and manipulates lists of
// datasets. See also vtkCollection and subclasses.

#ifndef __vtkDataArrayCollection_h
#define __vtkDataArrayCollection_h

#include "vtkCollection.h"

#include "vtkDataArray.h" // Needed for inline methods

class VTK_COMMON_EXPORT vtkDataArrayCollection : public vtkCollection
{
public:
  static vtkDataArrayCollection *New();
  vtkTypeRevisionMacro(vtkDataArrayCollection,vtkCollection);

  // Description:
  // Add a dataarray to the list.
  void AddItem(vtkDataArray *ds)
    {
      this->vtkCollection::AddItem(ds);
    }
  
  // Description:
  // Get the next dataarray in the list.
  vtkDataArray *GetNextItem() { 
    return static_cast<vtkDataArray *>(this->GetNextItemAsObject());};

  // Description:
  // Get the ith dataarray in the list.
  vtkDataArray *GetItem(int i) { 
    return static_cast<vtkDataArray *>(this->GetItemAsObject(i));};
  
  //BTX
  // Description: 
  // Reentrant safe way to get an object in a collection. Just pass the
  // same cookie back and forth. 
  vtkDataArray *GetNextDataArray(vtkCollectionSimpleIterator &cookie) {
    return static_cast<vtkDataArray *>(this->GetNextItemAsObject(cookie));};
  //ETX

protected:
  vtkDataArrayCollection() {};
  ~vtkDataArrayCollection() {};


private:
  // hide the standard AddItem from the user and the compiler.
  void AddItem(vtkObject *o) { this->vtkCollection::AddItem(o); };

private:
  vtkDataArrayCollection(const vtkDataArrayCollection&);  // Not implemented.
  void operator=(const vtkDataArrayCollection&);  // Not implemented.
};


#endif
