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

  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    vtkMPI4PyCommunicator.h

  Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
  All rights reserved.
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=========================================================================*/
/**
 * @class   vtkMPI4PyCommunicator
 * @brief   Class for bridging MPI4Py with vtkMPICommunicator.
 *
 *
 * This class can be used to convert between VTK and MPI4Py communicators.
 *
 * @sa
 * vtkMPICommunicator
*/

#ifndef vtkMPI4PyCommunicator_h
#define vtkMPI4PyCommunicator_h

#include "vtkPython.h" // For PyObject*; must be first

#include "vtkParallelMPI4PyModule.h" // For export macro
#include "vtkObject.h"

class vtkMPICommunicator;

class VTKPARALLELMPI4PY_EXPORT vtkMPI4PyCommunicator : public vtkObject
{
public:

  vtkTypeMacro(vtkMPI4PyCommunicator, vtkObject);
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

  static vtkMPI4PyCommunicator* New();
  vtkMPI4PyCommunicator();

  /**
   * Convert a VTK communicator into an mpi4py communicator.
   */
  static PyObject* ConvertToPython(vtkMPICommunicator* comm);

  /**
   * Convert an mpi4py communicator into a VTK communicator.
   */
  static vtkMPICommunicator* ConvertToVTK(PyObject* comm);

private:
  vtkMPI4PyCommunicator(const vtkMPI4PyCommunicator&) VTK_DELETE_FUNCTION;
  void operator=(const vtkMPI4PyCommunicator&) VTK_DELETE_FUNCTION;
};

#endif
