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- using System;
- using System.Collections.Generic;
- using System.Linq;
- using System.Text;
- using System.Threading.Tasks;
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- namespace IPA
- {
- /// <summary>
- /// An interface for configuration providers.
- /// </summary>
- public interface IConfigProvider
- {
- /// <summary>
- /// Loads the data provided by this <see cref="IConfigProvider"/> into an object of type <typeparamref name="T"/>.
- /// </summary>
- /// <typeparam name="T">the type of the object to parse into</typeparam>
- /// <returns>the values from the config provider parsed into the object</returns>
- T Parse<T>();
- /// <summary>
- /// Stores the data from <paramref name="obj"/> into the <see cref="IConfigProvider"/>.
- /// </summary>
- /// <remarks>
- /// NOTE TO IMPLEMENTERS:
- /// Since <see cref="Newtonsoft.Json"/> is bundled with this library, try to include support for its attributes.
- /// </remarks>
- /// <typeparam name="T">the type of <paramref name="obj"/></typeparam>
- /// <param name="obj">the object containing the data to save</param>
- void Store<T>(T obj);
-
- #region Getters
- /// <summary>
- /// Gets the <see cref="IConfigProvider"/> acting as a sub-object for a given key.
- /// </summary>
- /// <param name="name">the name of the field with the <see cref="IConfigProvider"/></param>
- /// <returns>an accessor for the selected sub-object</returns>
- IConfigProvider GetSubObject(string name);
- /// <summary>
- /// Gets the value of type <typeparamref name="T"/> for key <paramref name="name"/>.
- /// </summary>
- /// <remarks>
- /// If <typeparamref name="T"/> is <see cref="IConfigProvider"/>, behavior should be identical to <see cref="GetSubObject"/>.
- /// </remarks>
- /// <typeparam name="T">the type of the value to get</typeparam>
- /// <param name="name">the name of the field to get the value of</param>
- /// <returns>the value of the field</returns>
- T Get<T>(string name); // can be IConfigProvider
- /// <summary>
- /// The non-generic version of <see cref="Get{T}"/>.
- /// If key corresponds to a sub-object, will return an <see cref="IConfigProvider"/>.
- /// </summary>
- /// <param name="name">the name of the field to get the value of</param>
- /// <returns>the value of the field</returns>
- object Get(string name); // can return IConfigProvider
- /// <summary>
- /// Gets the value of type <typeparamref name="T"/> of the element at <paramref name="path"/>.
- /// </summary>
- /// <remarks>
- /// If <typeparamref name="T"/> is <see cref="IConfigProvider"/>, behavior should be identical to <see cref="GetSubObject"/> if it were executed on the immediate parent of the target element.
- /// </remarks>
- /// <typeparam name="T">the type of the value to get</typeparam>
- /// <param name="path">an ordered array specifying keys starting from the root (this)</param>
- /// <returns>the value at path</returns>
- T GetPath<T>(params string[] path);
- /// <summary>
- /// The non-generic version of <see cref="GetPath{T}(string[])"/>.
- /// If key corresponds to a sub-object, will return an <see cref="IConfigProvider"/>.
- /// </summary>
- /// <param name="path">an ordered array specifying keys starting from the root (this)</param>
- /// <returns>the value at path</returns>
- object GetPath(params string[] path);
- #endregion
-
- #region Setters
- /// <summary>
- /// Sets the object for key '<paramref name="name"/>' to <paramref name="provider"/>.
- /// </summary>
- /// <param name="name">the key to set it as</param>
- /// <param name="provider">the provider value</param>
- void SetSubObject(string name, IConfigProvider provider); // argument should be same provider type
- /// <summary>
- /// Sets the value for key <paramref name="name"/> to <paramref name="value"/>.
- /// </summary>
- /// <remarks>
- /// If <typeparamref name="T"/> is <see cref="IConfigProvider"/>, behavior should be identical to <see cref="SetSubObject(string, IConfigProvider)"/>.
- /// </remarks>
- /// <typeparam name="T">the type of the value to set</typeparam>
- /// <param name="name">the key</param>
- /// <param name="value">the value to set</param>
- void Set<T>(string name, T value);
- /// <summary>
- /// Sets the value for path <paramref name="path"/> to <paramref name="value"/>.
- /// </summary>
- /// <remarks>
- /// If <typeparamref name="T"/> is <see cref="IConfigProvider"/>, behavior should be identical to <see cref="SetSubObject(string, IConfigProvider)"/> if it were executed on the immediate parent of the target element.
- /// </remarks>
- /// <typeparam name="T">the type of the value to set</typeparam>
- /// <param name="path">the path to the new value location</param>
- /// <param name="value">the value to set</param>
- void SetPath<T>(string[] path, T value);
- #endregion
- }
- }
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