LogicalTime.h

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#pragma once
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// The classes associated with logical time allow a federation to provide their
// own representation for logical time and logical time interval. The federation
// is responsible to inherit from the abstract classes declared below. The
// encoded time classes are used to hold the arbitrary bit representation of the
// logical time and logical time intervals.

namespace rti1516_2025
{
   class LogicalTimeInterval;
}

#include <RTI/SpecificConfig.h>
#include <RTI/Exception.h>
#include <string>
#include <ostream>
#include <RTI/VariableLengthData.h>

namespace rti1516_2025
{
   class RTI_EXPORT LogicalTime
   {
   public:
      // Destructor
      virtual ~LogicalTime () noexcept = default;

      // Basic accessors/mutators

      virtual void setInitial () = 0;

      virtual bool isInitial () const = 0;

      virtual void setFinal () = 0;

      virtual bool isFinal () const = 0;

      // Operators

      virtual LogicalTime & operator= (
         LogicalTime const & value) = 0;

      virtual LogicalTime & operator+= (
         LogicalTimeInterval const & addend) = 0;

      virtual LogicalTime & operator-= (
         LogicalTimeInterval const & subtrahend) = 0;

      virtual bool operator> (
         LogicalTime const & value) const = 0;

      virtual bool operator< (
         LogicalTime const & value) const = 0;

      virtual bool operator== (
         LogicalTime const & value) const = 0;

      virtual bool operator>= (
         LogicalTime const & value) const = 0;

      virtual bool operator<= (
         LogicalTime const & value) const = 0;

      // Generates an encoded value that can be used to send
      // LogicalTimes to other federates in updates or interactions
      virtual VariableLengthData encode () const = 0;

      // Alternate encode for directly filling a buffer
      virtual size_t encode (
         void* buffer,
         size_t bufferSize) const = 0;

      // The length of the encoded data
      virtual size_t encodedLength () const = 0;

      // Decode encodedLogicalTime into self
      virtual void decode (
         VariableLengthData const & encodedLogicalTime) = 0;

      // Alternate decode that reads directly from a buffer
      virtual void decode (
         const void* buffer,
         size_t bufferSize) = 0;

      // Diagnostic string representation of time
      virtual std::wstring toString () const = 0;

      // Return the name of the implementation, as needed by
      // createFederationExecution.
      virtual std::wstring implementationName () const = 0;
   };

   // Output operator for LogicalTime
   std::wostream RTI_EXPORT & operator << (
      std::wostream &,
      LogicalTime const &);
}