InterfaceBase.h

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// $Header: /cvsroot/acdk/acdk/acdk_core/src/acdk/lang/InterfaceBase.h,v 1.16 2005/04/14 10:41:54 kommer Exp $
#ifndef acdk_lang_InterfaceBase_h
#define acdk_lang_InterfaceBase_h


namespace acdk {
namespace lang {

/**
  Classes serves as base for all Interfaces.
  Please refer to ACDK_INTERFACEBASE
*/
foreign 
class ACDK_CORE_PUBLIC InterfaceBase
{
public:
  virtual ~InterfaceBase() {}
  /**
     return the underlying implementation pointer
     @see acdk::lang:Object
  */
  virtual acdk::lang::Object* _getObjectPtr() = 0;
   /**
    for DMI implemented classes with multiple interface
    allow casts. The returned acdk::lang::Object will be casted
    to the correct type using dynamic_cast
  */

  virtual acdk::lang::Object* _cast(const acdk::lang::dmi::ClazzInfo* ci);
  /**
     return the class meta information of this object
     will be implemented by each acdk::lang::Object
   */
  static ::acdk::lang::dmi::ClazzInfo* clazzInfo() { return 0; }
  /**
    return the current dmi target.
    implementation in ObjectInline.h
  */
  inline acdk::lang::Object* getDmiTarget(const ::acdk::lang::dmi::ClazzInfo*& ci);

};



} // lang
} // acdk
#endif //acdk_lang_InterfaceBase_h