configVariableBase.I

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/**
 * PANDA 3D SOFTWARE
 * Copyright (c) Carnegie Mellon University.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * All use of this software is subject to the terms of the revised BSD
 * license.  You should have received a copy of this license along
 * with this source code in a file named "LICENSE."
 *
 * @file configVariableBase.I
 * @author drose
 * @date 2004-10-21
 */
 
/**
 * This constructor is only intended to be called from a specialized
 * ConfigVariableFoo derived class.
 */
INLINE ConfigVariableBase::
ConfigVariableBase(const std::string &name,
                   ConfigVariableBase::ValueType value_type) :
  _core(ConfigVariableManager::get_global_ptr()->make_variable(name))
{
  if (value_type != VT_undefined) {
    _core->set_value_type(value_type);
  }
}
 
/**
 *
 */
INLINE ConfigVariableBase::
~ConfigVariableBase() {
}
 
/**
 * Returns the name of the variable.
 */
INLINE const std::string &ConfigVariableBase::
get_name() const {
  nassertr(_core != nullptr, *new std::string());
  return _core->get_name();
}
 
/**
 * Returns the stated type of this variable.  This should be VT_list, unless a
 * later variable declaration has changed it.
 */
INLINE ConfigVariableBase::ValueType ConfigVariableBase::
get_value_type() const {
  nassertr(_core != nullptr, VT_undefined);
  return _core->get_value_type();
}
 
/**
 * Returns the brief description of this variable, if it has been defined.
 */
INLINE const std::string &ConfigVariableBase::
get_description() const {
  nassertr(_core != nullptr, *new std::string());
  return _core->get_description();
}
 
/**
 * Returns the flags value as set by set_flags().  This includes the trust
 * level and some other settings.  See the individual methods is_closed(),
 * get_trust_level(), etc.  to pull out the semantic meaning of these flags
 * individually.
 */
INLINE int ConfigVariableBase::
get_flags() const {
  nassertr(_core != nullptr, 0);
  return _core->get_flags();
}
 
/**
 * Returns true if the variable is not trusted by any prc file (and hence
 * cannot be modified from its compiled-in default value), or false for the
 * normal case, in which the variable can be modified by any prc file at or
 * above its trust level (see get_trust_level()).
 *
 * This value only has effect in a release build (specifically, when
 * PRC_RESPECT_TRUST_LEVEL is defined true in Config.pp).
 */
INLINE bool ConfigVariableBase::
is_closed() const {
  nassertr(_core != nullptr, false);
  return _core->is_closed();
}
 
/**
 * Returns the minimum trust_level a prc file must demonstrate in order to
 * redefine the value for this variable.  Arguably, this should be called the
 * "mistrust level", since the larger the value, the more suspicious we are of
 * prc files.  This value is not used if is_closed() returns true, which
 * indicates no file may be trusted.
 *
 * This value only has effect in a release build (specifically, when
 * PRC_RESPECT_TRUST_LEVEL is defined true in Config.pp).
 */
INLINE int ConfigVariableBase::
get_trust_level() const {
  nassertr(_core != nullptr, 0);
  return _core->get_trust_level();
}
 
/**
 * Returns true if the variable was indicated as "dynamic" by its constructor,
 * indicating that its name was dynamically generated, possibly from a large
 * pool, and it should not be listed along with the other variables.
 */
INLINE bool ConfigVariableBase::
is_dynamic() const {
  nassertr(_core != nullptr, false);
  return _core->is_dynamic();
}
 
/**
 * Removes the local value defined for this variable, and allows its value to
 * be once again retrieved from the .prc files.
 *
 * Returns true if the value was successfully removed, false if it did not
 * exist in the first place.
 */
INLINE bool ConfigVariableBase::
clear_local_value() {
  nassertr(_core != nullptr, false);
  return _core->clear_local_value();
}
 
/**
 * Returns true if this variable's value has been shadowed by a local
 * assignment (as created via make_local_value()), or false otherwise.
 */
INLINE bool ConfigVariableBase::
has_local_value() const {
  nassertr(_core != nullptr, false);
  return _core->has_local_value();
}
 
/**
 * Returns true if this variable has an explicit value, either from a prc file
 * or locally set, or false if variable has its default value.
 */
INLINE bool ConfigVariableBase::
has_value() const {
  nassertr(_core != nullptr, false);
  return _core->has_value();
}
 
/**
 *
 */
INLINE void ConfigVariableBase::
output(std::ostream &out) const {
  nassertv(_core != nullptr);
  _core->output(out);
}
 
/**
 *
 */
INLINE void ConfigVariableBase::
write(std::ostream &out) const {
  nassertv(_core != nullptr);
  _core->write(out);
}
 
INLINE std::ostream &
operator << (std::ostream &out, const ConfigVariableBase &variable) {
  variable.output(out);
  return out;
}