CTK/Libs/CommandLineModules/Core/ctkCmdLineModuleDirectoryWatcher.h

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#ifndef __ctkCmdLineModuleDirectoryWatcher_h
#define __ctkCmdLineModuleDirectoryWatcher_h

#include <ctkCommandLineModulesCoreExport.h>

#include "ctkCmdLineModuleReference.h"

#include <QObject>
#include <QScopedPointer>

class ctkCmdLineModuleManager;
class ctkCmdLineModuleDirectoryWatcherPrivate;

/**
 * \class ctkCmdLineModuleDirectoryWatcher
 * \brief Provides directory scanning and file watching via QFileSystemWatcher to
 * automatically load new modules into a ctkCmdLineModuleManager.
 *
 * \ingroup CommandLineModulesCore_API
 * \author m.clarkson@ucl.ac.uk
 *
 * This class can be used in 3 ways.
 *
 * 1. The user can provide a set of directories by calling setDirectories().
 * These directories are scanned for valid command line executables, which
 * are registered with the ctkCmdLineModuleManager. The QFileSystemWatcher
 * then watches for any changes in these directories and files.
 *
 * OR
 *
 * 2. The user can directly provide a list of files, which should be
 * valid command line executables, which are registered with the ctkCmdLineModuleManager
 * and the QFileSystemWatcher then watches for changes in these files.
 *
 * OR
 *
 * 3. Both of the above. In this case, the set of files specified must
 * not be contained within the set of directories specified. For this reason, we have
 * "setDirectories", and then "setAdditionalModules", as the list of files should
 * be considered as being "in addition" to any directories we are watching.
 *
 * If either directories or files are invalid (not existing, not executable etc),
 * they are filtered out and ignored.
 */
class CTK_CMDLINEMODULECORE_EXPORT ctkCmdLineModuleDirectoryWatcher
: public QObject
{
  Q_OBJECT

public:

  ctkCmdLineModuleDirectoryWatcher(ctkCmdLineModuleManager* moduleManager);
  virtual ~ctkCmdLineModuleDirectoryWatcher();

  /**
   * \brief Set the watcher into debug mode, for more output.
   * \param debug if true, you get more output, otherwise, less output.
   */
  void setDebug(bool debug);

  /**
   * \brief Set the directories to be watched.
   * \param directories a list of directory names. If any of these are
   * invalid, they will be filtered out and ignored.
   */
  void setDirectories(const QStringList& directories);

  /**
   * \brief Returns the list of directories currently being watched.
   */
  QStringList directories() const;

  /**
   * \brief Sets an additional list of command line executables to watch.
   * \param files a list of file names. If any of these file names are
   * not valid command line executables, they will be filtered out and ignored.
   */
  void setAdditionalModules(const QStringList& files);

  /**
   * \brief Gets the list of additional command line executable, where
   * "additional" means "in addition to those directories we are watching".
   */
  QStringList additionalModules() const;

  /**
   * \brief Returns the complete list of files (command line executables)
   * currently being watched.
   */
  QStringList commandLineModules() const;

private:

  QScopedPointer<ctkCmdLineModuleDirectoryWatcherPrivate> d;
  Q_DISABLE_COPY(ctkCmdLineModuleDirectoryWatcher)
};

#endif // __ctkCmdLineModuleDirectoryWatcher_h