TemplateLoader.h

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#ifndef INCLUDED_TEMPLATELOADER
#define INCLUDED_TEMPLATELOADER

#include "simulation2/system/ParamNode.h"
#include "scriptinterface/ScriptInterface.h"

enum ETemplatesType
{
    ALL_TEMPLATES,
    ACTOR_TEMPLATES,
    SIMULATION_TEMPLATES
};

/**
 * Template loader: Handles the loading of entity template files for:
 * - the initialisation and deserialization of entity components in the
 *   simulation (CmpTemplateManager).
 * - access to actor templates, obstruction data, etc. in RMS/RMGEN
 * - access to various templates in the GUI, to display faction specificities
 *
 * Template names are intentionally restricted to ASCII strings for storage/serialization
 * efficiency (we have a lot of strings so this is significant);
 * they correspond to filenames so they shouldn't contain non-ASCII anyway.
 *
 *
 * TODO: Find a way to validate templates outside of the simulation.
 */
class CTemplateLoader
{
public:
    CTemplateLoader()
    {
    }

    /**
     * Provides the file data for requested template.
     */
    const CParamNode& GetTemplateFileData(const std::string& templateName);

    /**
     * Check if the template XML file exits, without trying to load it.
     */
    bool TemplateExists(const std::string& templateName) const;

    /**
     * Returns a list of strings that could be validly passed as @c templateName to LoadTemplateFile.
     * (This includes "actor|foo" etc names).
     */
    std::vector<std::string> FindTemplates(const std::string& path, bool includeSubdirectories, ETemplatesType templatesType) const;

    std::vector<std::string> FindPlaceableTemplates(const std::string& path, bool includeSubdirectories, ETemplatesType templatesType, ScriptInterface& scriptInterface) const;

private:
    /**
     * (Re)loads the given template, regardless of whether it exists already,
     * and saves into m_TemplateFileData. Also loads any parents that are not yet
     * loaded. Returns false on error.
     * @param templateName XML filename to load (not a |-separated string)
     */
    bool LoadTemplateFile(const std::string& templateName, int depth);

    /**
     * Constructs a standard static-decorative-object template for the given actor
     */
    void ConstructTemplateActor(const std::string& actorName, CParamNode& out);

    /**
     * Map from template name (XML filename or special |-separated string) to the most recently
     * loaded non-broken template data. This includes files that will fail schema validation.
     * (Failed loads won't remove existing entries under the same name, so we behave more nicely
     * when hotloading broken files)
     */
    std::map<std::string, CParamNode> m_TemplateFileData;
};

#endif // INCLUDED_TEMPLATELOADER