/*=========================================================================

  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    vtkArrayData.h

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  the U.S. Government retains certain rights in this software.
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  Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
  All rights reserved.
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/**
 * @class   vtkArrayData
 * @brief   Pipeline data object that contains multiple vtkArray objects.
 *
 *
 * Because vtkArray cannot be stored as attributes of data objects (yet), a "carrier"
 * object is needed to pass vtkArray through the pipeline.  vtkArrayData acts as a
 * container of zero-to-many vtkArray instances, which can be retrieved via a zero-based
 * index.  Note that a collection of arrays stored in vtkArrayData may-or-may-not have related
 * types, dimensions, or extents.
 *
 * @sa
 * vtkArrayDataAlgorithm, vtkArray
 *
 * @par Thanks:
 * Developed by Timothy M. Shead (tshead@sandia.gov) at Sandia National Laboratories.
*/

#ifndef vtkArrayData_h
#define vtkArrayData_h

#include "vtkCommonDataModelModule.h" // For export macro
#include "vtkArray.h"
#include "vtkDataObject.h"

class vtkArray;

class VTKCOMMONDATAMODEL_EXPORT vtkArrayData : public vtkDataObject
{
public:
  static vtkArrayData* New();
  vtkTypeMacro(vtkArrayData, vtkDataObject);
  void PrintSelf(ostream &os, vtkIndent indent) VTK_OVERRIDE;

  static vtkArrayData* GetData(vtkInformation* info);
  static vtkArrayData* GetData(vtkInformationVector* v, int i = 0);

  /**
   * Adds a vtkArray to the collection
   */
  void AddArray(vtkArray*);

  /**
   * Clears the contents of the collection
   */
  void ClearArrays();

  /**
   * Returns the number of vtkArray instances in the collection
   */
  vtkIdType GetNumberOfArrays();

  /**
   * Returns the n-th vtkArray in the collection
   */
  vtkArray* GetArray(vtkIdType index);

  /**
   * Returns the array having called name from the collection
   */
  vtkArray* GetArrayByName(const char *name);

  /**
   * Return class name of data type (VTK_ARRAY_DATA).
   */
  int GetDataObjectType() VTK_OVERRIDE {return VTK_ARRAY_DATA;}

  void ShallowCopy(vtkDataObject* other) VTK_OVERRIDE;
  void DeepCopy(vtkDataObject* other) VTK_OVERRIDE;

protected:
  vtkArrayData();
  ~vtkArrayData() VTK_OVERRIDE;

private:
  vtkArrayData(const vtkArrayData&) VTK_DELETE_FUNCTION;
  void operator=(const vtkArrayData&) VTK_DELETE_FUNCTION;

  class implementation;
  implementation* const Implementation;

};

#endif

// VTK-HeaderTest-Exclude: vtkArrayData.h
