H5VarLenType.h

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00016 
00017 // Class VarLenType inherits from DataType and provides wrappers for
00018 // the HDF5 C's Variable-length Datatypes.
00019 
00020 #ifndef _H5VarLenType_H
00021 #define _H5VarLenType_H
00022 
00023 #ifndef H5_NO_NAMESPACE
00024 namespace H5 {
00025 #endif
00026 
00027 class H5_DLLCPP VarLenType : public DataType {
00028    public:
00029         // Constructor that creates a variable-length datatype based
00030         // on the specified base type.
00031         VarLenType(const DataType* base_type);
00032 
00034         virtual H5std_string fromClass () const { return("VarLenType"); }
00035 
00036         // Copy constructor: makes copy of the original object.
00037         VarLenType( const VarLenType& original );
00038 
00039         // Constructor that takes an existing id
00040         VarLenType( const hid_t existing_id );
00041 
00042         // Noop destructor
00043         virtual ~VarLenType();
00044 
00045    protected:
00046         // Default constructor
00047         VarLenType();
00048 };
00049 #ifndef H5_NO_NAMESPACE
00050 }
00051 #endif
00052 #endif