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/*
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 * distributed with this work for additional information
 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
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 * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
 * specific language governing permissions and limitations
 * under the License.
 */

/**
 * \file Streamable.h
 */

#ifndef tests_storePerftools_common_Streamable_h_
#define tests_storePerftools_common_Streamable_h_

#include <iostream>

namespace tests {
namespace storePerftools {
namespace common {

/**
 * \brief Abstract class which provides the mechanisms to stream
 *
 * An abstract class which provides stream functions. The toStream() function must be implemented by subclasses,
 * and is used by the remaining functions. For convenience, toString() returns a std::string object.
 */
class Streamable
{
public:
    /**
     * \brief Virtual destructor
     */
    virtual ~Streamable() {}

    /***
     * \brief Stream some representation of the object to an output stream
     *
     * \param os Output stream to which the class data is to be streamed
     */
    virtual void toStream(std::ostream& os = std::cout) const = 0;

    /**
     * \brief Creates a string representation of the test parameters
     *
     * Convenience feature which creates and returns a std::string object containing the content of toStream().
     *
     * \return Content of toStream()
     */
     std::string toString() const;

    /**
     * \brief Stream the object to an output stream
     */
    friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
                                    const Streamable& s);

    /**
     * \brief Stream the object to an output stream through an object pointer
     */
    friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
                                    const Streamable* sPtr);

};

}}} // namespace tests::storePerftools::common

#endif // tests_storePerftools_common_Streamable_h_