LUMIERA.clone/src/proc/engine/dispatcher.hpp

/*
  DISPATCHER.hpp  -  translating calculation streams into frame jobs

  Copyright (C)         Lumiera.org
    2011,               Hermann Vosseler <Ichthyostega@web.de>

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*/


#ifndef PROC_ENGINE_DISPATCHER_H
#define PROC_ENGINE_DISPATCHER_H

#include "proc/common.hpp"
//#include "proc/state.hpp"
#include "proc/mobject/model-port.hpp"
#include "proc/engine/time-anchor.hpp"
#include "proc/engine/frame-coord.hpp"
#include "proc/engine/job-ticket.hpp"
#include "proc/engine/job-planning.hpp"
#include "lib/time/timevalue.hpp"

#include <boost/noncopyable.hpp>
#include <tr1/functional>


namespace proc {
namespace engine {
  
  using std::tr1::function;
  using mobject::ModelPort;
  using lib::time::TimeSpan;
  using lib::time::FSecs;
  using lib::time::Time;
//  
//  class ExitNode;
  
  /**
   * @todo 11/11 extremely fuzzy at the moment
   */
  class Dispatcher
    : boost::noncopyable
    {
      struct JobBuilder
        {
          Dispatcher& dispatcher_;
          ModelPort modelPort_;
          uint channel_;
          
          /////TODO need storage for the continuation
          
          FrameCoord relativeFrameLocation (TimeAnchor refPoint, uint frameCountOffset);
          
          JobBuilder& establishNextJobs (TimeAnchor refPoint);
          
          JobBuilder& prepareContinuation (function<void(TimeAnchor)> delayedAction);
          
          operator JobPlanningSequence()
            {
              UNIMPLEMENTED ("how to represent the closure for defining and scheduling jobs");
              
              ////////TODO: use a closure based on FrameCoord plus a back-reference to the Dispatcher.
              ////////////  Thus actually we need a *generator* for a sequence of FrameCoord
              ////////////  This generator is then wrapped up into an evaluation-Monad (IterExplorer) 
            }

        };
      
    public:
      virtual ~Dispatcher();  ///< this is an interface
      
      JobBuilder onCalcStream (ModelPort modelPort, uint channel);
      
      JobTicket& accessJobTicket (FrameCoord const&);
      
    protected:
      virtual FrameCoord locateRelative (FrameCoord, uint frameCountOffset)   =0;
      virtual FrameCoord locateRelative (TimeAnchor, uint frameCountOffset)   =0;
    };
  
  
  
}} // namespace proc::engine
#endif