/* -*- C++ -*- */
/**
 *  @file   EC_Negation_Filter.h
 *
 *  EC_Negation_Filter.h,v 1.10 2003/07/25 14:07:38 jwillemsen Exp
 *
 *  @author Carlos O'Ryan (coryan@cs.wustl.edu)
 *
 * Based on previous work by Tim Harrison (harrison@cs.wustl.edu) and
 * other members of the DOC group. More details can be found in:
 *
 * http://doc.ece.uci.edu/~coryan/EC/index.html
 */

#ifndef TAO_EC_NEGATION_FILTER_H
#define TAO_EC_NEGATION_FILTER_H
#include /**/ "ace/pre.h"

#include "EC_Filter.h"
#include /**/ "event_export.h"

#if !defined (ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE)
# pragma once
#endif /* ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE */

/**
 * @class TAO_EC_Negation_Filter
 *
 * @brief The negation filter.
 *
 * This filter accepts all the events rejected by its child, and
 * rejects any events accepted by the child.
 *
 * <H2>Memory Management</H2>
 * It assumes ownership of its child.
 */
class TAO_RTEvent_Export TAO_EC_Negation_Filter : public TAO_EC_Filter
{
public:
  /// Constructor. It assumes ownership of the child.
  TAO_EC_Negation_Filter (TAO_EC_Filter* child);

  /// Destructor
  virtual ~TAO_EC_Negation_Filter (void);


  // = The TAO_EC_Filter methods, please check the documentation in
  // TAO_EC_Filter.
  virtual ChildrenIterator begin (void) const;
  virtual ChildrenIterator end (void) const;
  virtual int size (void) const;
  virtual int filter (const RtecEventComm::EventSet& event,
                      TAO_EC_QOS_Info& qos_info
                      ACE_ENV_ARG_DECL);
  virtual int filter_nocopy (RtecEventComm::EventSet& event,
                             TAO_EC_QOS_Info& qos_info
                             ACE_ENV_ARG_DECL);
  virtual void push (const RtecEventComm::EventSet& event,
                     TAO_EC_QOS_Info& qos_info
                     ACE_ENV_ARG_DECL);
  virtual void push_nocopy (RtecEventComm::EventSet& event,
                            TAO_EC_QOS_Info& qos_info
                            ACE_ENV_ARG_DECL);
  virtual void clear (void);
  virtual CORBA::ULong max_event_size (void) const;
  virtual int can_match (const RtecEventComm::EventHeader& header) const;
  virtual int add_dependencies (const RtecEventComm::EventHeader& header,
                                const TAO_EC_QOS_Info &qos_info
                                ACE_ENV_ARG_DECL);

private:
  ACE_UNIMPLEMENTED_FUNC (TAO_EC_Negation_Filter
                              (const TAO_EC_Negation_Filter&))
  ACE_UNIMPLEMENTED_FUNC (TAO_EC_Negation_Filter& operator=
                              (const TAO_EC_Negation_Filter&))

private:
  /// The child
  TAO_EC_Filter* child_;
};

#if defined (__ACE_INLINE__)
#include "EC_Negation_Filter.i"
#endif /* __ACE_INLINE__ */

#include /**/ "ace/post.h"
#endif /* TAO_EC_NEGATION_FILTER_H */
