/* -*- mode: C++; c-basic-offset: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- */
/*
 *  Main authors:
 *     Guido Tack <tack@gecode.org>
 *
 *  Copyright:
 *     Guido Tack, 2010
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 *     $Date: 2010-03-10 12:45:27 +0100 (Wed, 10 Mar 2010) $ by $Author: tack $
 *     $Revision: 10394 $
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#ifndef __GECODE_FLATZINC_PLUGIN_HH__
#define __GECODE_FLATZINC_PLUGIN_HH__

#ifdef GECODE_HAS_QT
#include <QtCore>
#include <QPluginLoader>
#include <QLibrary>

namespace Gecode { namespace FlatZinc {
  /**
   * \brief Interface for branch plugins
   *
   * This interface has to be implemented as a Qt Plugin. It then
   * provides custom branch methods that can be loaded at runtime
   * from a FlatZinc file.
   *
   * In order to use a custom branching, add an annotation to the
   * FlatZinc solve item like the following:
   *
   * ::gecode_search(mybranch(some,arguments,x,y,z))
   *
   * This will load the plugin called mybranch and invoke its branch
   * method with the arguments encoded in an AST.
   *
   * The plugin mybranch must reside in a file called mybranch.dll
   * on Windows, libmybranch.dylib on Mac OS and libmybranch.so on
   * Linux systems.
   *
   * An example plugin can be found in the Gecode source tree under
   * gecode/flatzinc/exampleplugin.
   *
   */
  class BranchPlugin {
  public:
    /// The custom branch method that this plugin provides
    virtual void branch(Gecode::FlatZinc::FlatZincSpace& s,
                        Gecode::FlatZinc::AST::Call* c) = 0;
  };
}}
Q_DECLARE_INTERFACE(Gecode::FlatZinc::BranchPlugin,
  "org.gecode.FlatZinc.BranchPlugin/1.0");
#endif

#endif

// STATISTICS: flatzinc-any
