ns3::AttributeChecker Class Reference

Represent the type of an attribute. More...

#include "attribute.h"

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Public Member Functions
	AttributeChecker ()
virtual	~AttributeChecker ()
virtual bool	Check (const AttributeValue &value) const =0
virtual bool	Copy (const AttributeValue &source, AttributeValue &destination) const =0
	Copy the source to the destination.
virtual Ptr< AttributeValue >	Create () const =0
Ptr< AttributeValue >	CreateValidValue (const AttributeValue &value) const
	Create a valid value from the argument value, or reinterpret the argument as a string.
virtual std::string	GetUnderlyingTypeInformation () const =0
virtual std::string	GetValueTypeName () const =0
virtual bool	HasUnderlyingTypeInformation () const =0
Public Member Functions inherited from ns3::SimpleRefCount< AttributeChecker >
	SimpleRefCount ()
	Default constructor.
	SimpleRefCount (const SimpleRefCount &o)
	Copy constructor.
uint32_t	GetReferenceCount () const
	Get the reference count of the object.
SimpleRefCount &	operator= (const SimpleRefCount &o)
	Assignment operator.
void	Ref () const
	Increment the reference count.
void	Unref () const
	Decrement the reference count.

Detailed Description

Represent the type of an attribute.

Each type of attribute has an associated unique AttributeChecker subclass. The type of the subclass can be safely used by users to infer the type of the associated attribute. i.e., we expect binding authors to use the checker associated to an attribute to detect the type of the associated attribute.

Most subclasses of this base class are implemented by the ATTRIBUTE_HELPER_HEADER and ATTRIBUTE_HELPER_CPP macros.

Definition at line 156 of file attribute.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

AttributeChecker()

ns3::AttributeChecker::AttributeChecker

(

)

Definition at line 44 of file attribute.cc.

~AttributeChecker()

ns3::AttributeChecker::~AttributeChecker ( )

virtual

Definition at line 48 of file attribute.cc.

Member Function Documentation

Check()

virtual bool ns3::AttributeChecker::Check ( const AttributeValue & value ) const

pure virtual

Parameters

[in]

value

A pointer to the value to check

Returns

true if the input value is both of the right type and if its value is within the requested range. Returns false otherwise.

Implemented in ns3::EmptyAttributeChecker, ns3::EnumChecker< T >, ns3::internal::ObjectPtrContainerChecker< T >, ns3::internal::PointerChecker< T >, and ns3::internal::TupleChecker< Args >.

Referenced by CreateValidValue().

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Copy()

virtual bool ns3::AttributeChecker::Copy ( const AttributeValue & source, AttributeValue & destination ) const

pure virtual

Copy the source to the destination.

Parameters

[in]	source	Source AttributeValue
[out]	destination	Destination AttributeValue

Returns

true if copy was successful

Implemented in ns3::EmptyAttributeChecker, ns3::EnumChecker< T >, ns3::internal::ObjectPtrContainerChecker< T >, ns3::internal::PointerChecker< T >, and ns3::internal::TupleChecker< Args >.

Create()

virtual Ptr< AttributeValue > ns3::AttributeChecker::Create ( ) const

pure virtual

Returns

a new instance of an AttributeValue (wrapper in an Attribute instance) which matches the type of the underlying attribute.

This method is typically used to create a temporary variable prior to calling Attribute::DeserializeFromString.

Implemented in ns3::EmptyAttributeChecker, ns3::EnumChecker< T >, ns3::internal::ObjectPtrContainerChecker< T >, ns3::internal::PointerChecker< T >, and ns3::internal::TupleChecker< Args >.

Referenced by CreateValidValue().

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CreateValidValue()

Ptr< AttributeValue > ns3::AttributeChecker::CreateValidValue

(

const AttributeValue &

value

)

const

Create a valid value from the argument value, or reinterpret the argument as a string.

Parameters

[in]

value

The AttributeValue to check

Returns

Ptr to a valid value

Definition at line 53 of file attribute.cc.

References Check(), Create(), and NS_LOG_FUNCTION.

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GetUnderlyingTypeInformation()

virtual std::string ns3::AttributeChecker::GetUnderlyingTypeInformation ( ) const

pure virtual

Returns

a human-readable representation of information about the underlying C++ type.

Implemented in ns3::EmptyAttributeChecker, ns3::EnumChecker< T >, ns3::internal::ObjectPtrContainerChecker< T >, ns3::internal::PointerChecker< T >, and ns3::internal::TupleChecker< Args >.

GetValueTypeName()

virtual std::string ns3::AttributeChecker::GetValueTypeName ( ) const

pure virtual

Returns

the c++ fully-qualified typename of the subclass of the ns3::AttributeValue base class which is associated to this checker.

A typical return value here is FooValue where Foo is the name of the type being wrapped.

Implemented in ns3::EmptyAttributeChecker, ns3::EnumChecker< T >, ns3::internal::ObjectPtrContainerChecker< T >, ns3::internal::PointerChecker< T >, and ns3::internal::TupleChecker< Args >.

HasUnderlyingTypeInformation()

virtual bool ns3::AttributeChecker::HasUnderlyingTypeInformation ( ) const

pure virtual

Returns

true if this checker has information about the underlying C++ type, false otherwise.

If this method returns false, the return value of the GetUnderlyingTypeInformation method cannot be relied upon.

Implemented in ns3::EmptyAttributeChecker, ns3::EnumChecker< T >, ns3::internal::ObjectPtrContainerChecker< T >, ns3::internal::PointerChecker< T >, and ns3::internal::TupleChecker< Args >.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• src/core/model/attribute.h
• src/core/model/attribute.cc