DapObj Class Reference

Dap object for bes objects. More...

#include <DapObj.h>

Inheritance diagram for DapObj:

Inheritance graph
[legend]
List of all members.

Public Member Functions

virtual void dump (ostream &strm) const =0
 dump the contents of this object to the specified ostream
virtual ~DapObj ()

Detailed Description

A base object for any BES objects in bes to use. Provides simple methods for dumping the contents of the object.

Definition at line 52 of file DapObj.h.


Constructor & Destructor Documentation

virtual DapObj::~DapObj (  )  [inline, virtual]

Definition at line 55 of file DapObj.h.


Member Function Documentation

virtual void DapObj::dump ( ostream &  strm  )  const [pure virtual]

This method is implemented by all derived classes to dump their contents, in other words, any state they might have, private variables, etc...

The inline function below can be used to dump the contents of an OPeNDAOObj object. For example, the object Animal is derived from DapObj. A user could do the following:

Animal *a = new dog( "Sparky" ) ; cout << a << endl ;

And the dump method for dog could display the name passed into the constructor, the (this) pointer of the object, etc...

Parameters:
strm C++ i/o stream to dump the object to

Implemented in Array, AttrTable, BaseType, Byte, Constructor, DAS, DataDDS, DDS, Float32, Float64, Grid, Int16, Int32, Sequence, Str, Structure, UInt16, UInt32, and Vector.

Referenced by operator<<().


The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:
Generated on Wed Jun 27 12:57:41 2007 for libdap++ by  doxygen 1.4.7