/*
    Ousía
    Copyright (C) 2014, 2015  Benjamin Paaßen, Andreas Stöckel

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    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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*/

/**
 * @file Function.hpp
 *
 * Contains the definition of a Function class used to describe both methods and
 * functions in the host code and functions in the script code.
 *
 * @author Andreas Stöckel (astoecke@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de)
 */

#ifndef _OUSIA_FUNCTION_HPP_
#define _OUSIA_FUNCTION_HPP_

#include <cassert>

#include <core/managed/Managed.hpp>

#include "Rtti.hpp"
#include "Variant.hpp"

namespace ousia {

/**
 * The Function interface defines all the methods needed to represent a
 * generic function. Function objects can be called using the "call" function in 
 * which an array of Variant is supplied to the function and a Variant is
 * returned to the caller.
 */
class Function : public Managed {
protected:
	using Managed::Managed;

public:
	/**
	 * Abstract function which is meant to call the underlying function (be it
	 * a host or a script function) with the given arguments.
	 *
	 * @param args is a vector containing all arguments that shall be passed to
	 * the function.
	 * @return a Variant containing the return value.
	 */
	virtual Variant call(const Variant::arrayType &args = Variant::arrayType{},
	                     void *thisRef = nullptr) const = 0;
};

/**
 * The Method class refers to a method in the C++ code, belonging to an object
 * of a certain type T.
 *
 * @tparam T is the type of the method that should be called.
 */
template <class T>
class Method : public Function {
public:
	/**
	 * Type of the Callback function that is being called by the "call"
	 * function.
	 *
	 * @param args contains the input arguments that were passed to the
	 * function.
	 * @param thisRef is a pointer pointing at an instance of type T.
	 * @return the return value of the function as Variant instance.
	 */
	using Callback = Variant (*)(const Variant::arrayType &args, T *thisRef);

private:
	/**
	 * Pointer at the actual C++ method being called.
	 */
	const Callback method;

public:
	using Function::Function;

	/**
	 * Constructor of the Method class.
	 *
	 * @param method is a pointer at the C++ function that should be called.
	 */
	Method(Callback method) : method(method){};

	/**
	 * Calls the underlying method.
	 *
	 * @param args is a vector containing all arguments that shouild be passed
	 * to the method.
	 * @return a Variant containing the return value.
	 */
	Variant call(const Variant::arrayType &args = Variant::arrayType{},
	             void *thisRef = nullptr) const override
	{
		// Dynamically cast thisRef to the given type
		T *tRef = dynamic_cast<T>(thisRef);

		// Make sure the cast is successfull
		assert(tRef != nullptr);

		// Call the method
		return method(args, tRef);
	}
};

namespace RttiTypes {
	extern const Rtti<Function> Function;
}

}

#endif /* _OUSIA_FUNCTION_HPP_ */