LUMIERA.clone/src/lib/advice/binding.hpp

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/*
BINDING.hpp - pattern defining a specific attachment to the Advice system
Copyright (C) Lumiera.org
2010, Hermann Vosseler <Ichthyostega@web.de>
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/** @file binding.hpp
** A pattern to define and identify a specific attachment to the Advice system.
** This pattern is comprised of a predicate list and intended to be matched or unified
** against a similar pattern associated with the attachment of a possible collaboration partner.
** Semantically, this list of atoms forms an conjunction of predicates to be resolved against
** similar predicates of the partner. Informally, when two entities attach to the Advice system,
** each specifying a binding, they can be paired up if any condition included into the binding
** holds true for both sides.
**
** Typically, a binding includes a \em type-guard predicate \c advice.type.xx where \c xx is an
** identifier denoting a type used within an instantiation of the Advice collaboration, i.e. a type
** used as advice value in a instantiation of the PointOfAdvice<AD> template. Besides the type guard,
** a binding may narrow down the topic of the advice by providing further predicates. This allows for
** Advice collaborations targeted at a more specific topic. The goal and intention behind this Advice
** system is to allow collaboration of entities without requiring them to be tightly coupled. Indeed,
** the only dependency besides the common type used as advice is to know any specific topic used
** within the binding. Thus, and advisor entity could put up a piece of advice, i.e. a value of
** the advice type, and another client entity (the advised entity) could pick up this value
** without the need to now anything about the advisor.
**
** \par implementation notes
** Any binding will be normalised prior to further processing. This normalisation is based
** on ordering by predicate symbol and arity. Patterns just comprised of constant symbols
** (nullary atoms) can even be condensed into a single hash value, which allows for fast
** match checking. For each pattern, we provide a matcher functor, allowing to check
** a match against this pattern. In case of the mentioned symbol-only patterns,
** this matcher will just hold the hash value of the normalised pattern.
**
** The advice system uses a binding index datastructure to keep track of any participating
** patterns and especially of the matching pairs. Actually, this datastructure needs to store
** only these matcher functors; thus, for a new binding to be used within the advice system,
** the symbolic definition is parsed, then normalised and finally, after creating the matcher
** functor, the full pattern definition can be discarded.
**
** @note as of 4/2010 this is an experimental setup and implemented just enough to work out
** the interfaces. Ichthyo expects this collaboration service to play a central role
** at various places within proc-layer.
** @todo for now, \em only the case of a completely constant (ground) pattern is implemented.
** Later we may consider to extend the binding patterns to allow variables, which, on match
** could be fed as parameters to the bound advice. But this extension requires to extend
** the simple hash-based match check to an actual unification of the patterns. ///TICKET #615
**
** @see advice.hpp
** @see advice-binding-pattern-test.cpp
**
*/
#ifndef LIB_ADVICE_BINDING_H
#define LIB_ADVICE_BINDING_H
#include "lib/error.hpp"
#include "lib/symbol.hpp"
#include "lib/query.hpp"
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <set>
namespace lib {
namespace advice {
using std::string;
typedef size_t HashVal;
LUMIERA_ERROR_DECLARE (BINDING_PATTERN_SYNTAX); ///< Unable to parse the given binding pattern definition
/**
* Conjunction of predicates to be matched
* against a collaboration partner for establishing
* an Advice connection. The binding is defined by a
* textual spec in prolog-like syntax. The internal
* representation is immediately \em normalised.
* Typically the goal is just to create a #Matcher
* (Functor) to be stored for later match checks
* TODO type comment
*/
class Binding
{
/**
* single predicate
* as part of an advice binding pattern
*/
class Atom
{
uint ari_;
string sym_;
string arg_;
public:
explicit
Atom (string const& symbol ="nil", uint arity =0, string const& arg ="")
: ari_(arity), sym_(symbol), arg_(arg)
{ }
string const& sym() const { return sym_; }
string const& arg() const { return arg_; }
uint arity() const { return ari_; }
operator string() const;
bool
identical (Atom const& oa) const
{
return ari_ == oa.ari_
&& sym_ == oa.sym_
&& arg_ == oa.arg_;
}
int
compare (Atom const& oa) const ///< @note when #compare returns 0, the corresponding Atom counts as duplicate
{
int res;
if (0 != (res=sym().compare (oa.sym()))) return res;
if (0 != (res=arity() - (oa.arity()))) return res;
return arg().compare (oa.arg()); /////TODO: in the final version, when we'll allow for variable arguments
} /////////: and unification, then variable arguments must not be part of
/////////: the comparison, otherwise the matching by hash will break!
friend bool
operator< (Atom const& a1, Atom const& a2)
{
return a1.compare(a2) < 0;
}
};
typedef std::set<Atom> NormalisedAtoms;
NormalisedAtoms atoms_;
public:
/**
* Functor object for matching against another Binding.
* Contains precompiled information necessary for
* determining a match.
* @note Matcher is POD, copyable, no-throw
*/
class Matcher
{
HashVal bindingHash_;
Matcher (HashVal ha)
: bindingHash_(ha)
{ }
friend class Binding;
public:
bool matches (Binding const& obi) const;
bool matches (Binding::Matcher const& oma) const;
friend HashVal hash_value (Matcher const&);
};
/** create the empty binding, equivalent to \c true */
Binding();
/** create the binding as defined by the given textual definition.
* @note implicit type conversion deliberately intended */
Binding (Literal spec);
/*-- Binding is default copyable --*/
/** extend the definition of this binding
* by adding a predicate according to the
* given textual definition */
void addPredicate (Literal spec);
template<typename TY>
Binding const& addTypeGuard();
Matcher buildMatcher() const;
HashVal calculateHash() const;
operator string() const;
friend bool operator== (Binding const&, Binding const&);
private:
/** internal: parse into atoms, and insert them */
void parse_and_append (Literal def);
};
inline std::ostream&
operator<< (std::ostream& os, Binding const& bi)
{
return os << string(bi);
}
template<typename TY>
inline Binding const&
Binding::addTypeGuard()
{
atoms_.insert (Atom ("advice.type."+lumiera::query::buildTypeID<TY>()));
return *this;
}
/* === equality comparison and matching === */
inline bool
operator!= (Binding const& b1, Binding const& b2)
{
return ! (b1 == b2);
}
inline bool
matches (Binding const& b1, Binding const& b2)
{
return b1.buildMatcher().matches (b2);
}
inline bool
matches (Binding::Matcher const& m1, Binding::Matcher const& m2)
{
return m1.matches (m2);
}
inline Binding::Matcher
Binding::buildMatcher() const
{
return Matcher (this->calculateHash());
}
/* == access hash values used for matching == */
inline bool
Binding::Matcher::matches (Binding const& obi) const
{
return bindingHash_ == obi.calculateHash();
}
inline bool
Binding::Matcher::matches (Binding::Matcher const& oma) const
{
return bindingHash_ == hash_value(oma);
}
inline HashVal
hash_value (Binding::Matcher const& bm)
{
return bm.bindingHash_;
}
inline HashVal
hash_value (Binding const& bi)
{
return bi.calculateHash();
}
}} // namespace lib::advice
#endif