libabigail/include/abg-comp-filter.h

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// Author: Dodji Seketeli

/// @file
///
/// This header declares filters for the diff trees resulting from
/// comparing ABI Corpora.

#ifndef __ABG_COMP_FILTER_H__
#define __ABG_COMP_FILTER_H__

#include "abg-comparison.h"

namespace abigail
{
namespace comparison
{
/// Facilities to walk, categorize and possibly filter nodes of the
/// diff tree.
namespace filtering
{

class filter_base;
/// Convenience typedef for a shared pointer to filter_base
typedef shared_ptr<filter_base> filter_base_sptr;
/// Convenience typedef for a vector of filter_base_sptr
typedef std::vector<filter_base_sptr> filters;

/// The base class for the diff tree node filter.
///
/// It's intended to walk a tree of diff nodes and tag each relevant
/// name into one or several categories depending on well choosen
/// properties of the diff nodes.
struct filter_base : public diff_node_visitor
{
  friend void
  apply_filter(filter_base_sptr f, diff_sptr deef);
}; //end class filter_base

void
apply_filter(filter_base& filter, diff_sptr d);

void
apply_filter(filter_base_sptr filter, diff_sptr d);

class harmless_filter;
/// Convenience typedef for a shared pointer to a harmless_filter.
typedef shared_ptr<harmless_filter> harmless_filter_sptr;

/// A filter that walks the diff nodes tree and tags relevant diff
/// nodes into categories considered to represent harmless changes.
class harmless_filter : public filter_base
{
  virtual bool
  visit(diff*, bool);
}; // end class harmless_filter

class harmful_filter;
/// A convenience typedef for a shared pointer to harmful_filter.
typedef shared_ptr<harmful_filter> harmful_filter_sptr;

/// A filter that walks the diff nodes tree tags relevant diff nodes
/// into categories considered to represent potentially harmful
/// changes.
class harmful_filter : public filter_base
{
  virtual bool
  visit(diff*, bool);
}; // end class harmful_filter

} // end namespace filtering
} // end namespace comparison
} // end namespace abigail

#endif // __ABG_COMP_FILTER_H__