/*
  TREE-MUTATOR.hpp  -  flexible binding to map generic tree changing operations

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    2015,               Hermann Vosseler <Ichthyostega@web.de>

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*/


/** @file tree-mutator.hpp
 ** Customisable intermediary to abstract generic tree mutation operations.
 ** This is the foundation for generic treatment of tree altering operations,
 ** and especially to handling of changes (diff) to hierarchical data structures.
 ** The goal is to represent a standard set of conceptual operations working on
 ** arbitrary data structures, without the need for these data structures to
 ** comply to any interface or base type. Rather, we allow each instance to
 ** define binding closures, which allows to tap into any internal data
 ** representation, without any need of disclosure. The only assumption is
 ** that the data to be treated is \em hierarchical and \em object-like,
 ** i.e. it has (named) attributes and it may have a collection of children.
 ** If necessary, typing constraints can be integrated through symbolic
 ** representation of types as chained identifiers. (path dependent types).
 ** 
 ** The interface implemented by the TreeMutator is shaped such as to support
 ** the primitives of Lumiera's tree \link diff-language.hpp diff handling language. \endlink
 ** By default, each of these primitives is implemented as a \c NOP -- but each operation
 ** can be replaced by a binding closure, which allows to invoke arbitrary code in the
 ** context of the given object's implementation internals.
 ** 
 ** @see generic-tree-mutator-test.cpp
 ** @see DiffDetector
 ** 
 */


#ifndef LIB_DIFF_TREE_MUTATOR_H
#define LIB_DIFF_TREE_MUTATOR_H


#include "lib/error.hpp"
#include "lib/symbol.hpp"
//#include "lib/util.hpp"
//#include "lib/format-string.hpp"

#include <functional>
#include <string>
//#include <vector>
//#include <map>


namespace lib {
namespace diff{
  
  namespace error = lumiera::error;
  
//using util::_Fmt;
  using lib::Literal;
  using std::function;
  using std::string;
  
  namespace {
    class ChangeOperationBinder
      {
      public:
        void
        operator= (function<void(string)> closure)
          {
            UNIMPLEMENTED("install closure");
          }
      };
  }
  
  
  /**
   * Customisable intermediary to abstract
   * mutating operations on arbitrary, hierarchical
   * object-like data
   */
  class TreeMutator
    {
      
    public:
      ChangeOperationBinder
      change (Literal attributeID)
        {
          UNIMPLEMENTED ("setup binder");
        }
    };
  
  
  
  
}} // namespace lib::diff
#endif /*LIB_DIFF_TREE_MUTATOR_H*/