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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*-
    Copyright (C) 2004 by Peter Amstutz <http://www.interreality.org>
    Written by Peter Amstutz <http://www.interreality.org>

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
    version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
    Library General Public License for more details.

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*/

#ifndef __CS_INETWORK_VOSA3DL_H__
#define __CS_INETWORK_VOSA3DL_H__

#include <vos/vos/vos.hh>
#include <crystalspace.h>

struct iMeshWrapper;
struct iProgressMeter;
struct iRigidBody;
struct iSector;

/** @file
 * Plugin interface for the Crystal Space Virtual Object System (VOS)
 * Abstract 3D Layer plugin (A3DL).
 * VOS is an object-oriented distributed network architechture; A3DL is a
 * set of extensions to VOS to describe 3D scenes.  This plugin makes
 * it easy to access 3D virtual worlds described using A3DL with the
 * VOS protocol and loads those worlds into the Crystal Space engine.
 * For more information about VOS, see http://interreality.org.  You
 * will need the download the VOS software from in order to use this
 * plugin.
 *
 * @note This is very much a work in progress.  You can access the
 * underlying VOS API using scfQueryInterface to get iVosApi (defined
 * in ivosapi.h).  Something that we'd like to do (but this does not
 * currently support) is to be able to take the current CS engine
 * state and export to remote clients using VOS, and generally wrap
 * VOS enough that you could take a Crystal Space app that doesn't
 * know anything about networking and sprinkle it with the magic VOS
 * plugin powder and make it multiuser... :-)
*/


SCF_VERSION (iVosObject3D, 0, 1, 1);

/**
 * This interface bridges between a VOS 3D object and the Crystal
 * Space mesh wrapper created for that object.
 * @bug presently this isn't very useful since nothing yet returns this
 * interface.  Obviously that will change as the iVosSector interface
 * is fleshed out (or an alternate interface is introduced instead of this...).
 */
struct iVosObject3D : public virtual iBase
{
  /** Get the iMeshWrapper for this Object3D. */
  virtual csRef<iMeshWrapper> GetMeshWrapper() = 0;

  /**
   * Get the iRigidBody collider for this Object3D. This can be used to
   * control the forces o the object - useful for avatars
   *
   * This will return no object if there is no iDynamicsSystem registered in
   * the object registry
   */
  virtual csRef<iRigidBody> GetCollider() = 0;
};

SCF_VERSION (iVosSector, 0, 3, 1);

/** This interface bridges between a VOS sector and a Crystal Space
    sector. */
struct iVosSector : public virtual iBase
{
  /**
   * Begin loading this sector in the background.  Network activity
   * occurs in another thread, so this method returns immediately.
   * An event is posted to the global event queue when the download is complete.
   * \param progress if supplied, this will be called back (in the CS thread)
   * periodically to indicate download progress
   */
  virtual void Load(iProgressMeter* progress = 0) = 0;

  /**
   * Get the Crystal Space iSector for this sector.  This will be
   * empty until Load() is called.
   */
  virtual csRef<iSector> GetSector() = 0;

  /**
   * Get the list of object3ds which have been loaded into this sector. This
   * list will change in size as objects are loaded and removed - does not
   * represent the list of objects in the A3DL sector
   */
  virtual const csSet< csPtrKey<iVosObject3D> > &GetObject3Ds() = 0;

  /** Write out lightmap caches for any lightmapped objects in the sector. */
  virtual void CacheLightmaps() = 0;
};




SCF_VERSION (iVosA3DL, 0, 1, 2);

/**
 * This is the initial component you retrieve from the registry to
 * access the VOS A3DL plugin.  Here's how to get it:
 * @code
 * csInitializer::RequestPlugins (object_reg,
 *   ...
 *   CS_REQUEST_PLUGIN("crystalspace.network.vos.a3dl", iVosA3DL),
 *   ...
 *   CS_REQUEST_END)
 *
 *  ...
 *
 * csRef<iVosA3DL> vosa3dl = CS_QUERY_REGISTRY (object_reg, iVosA3DL);
 * @endcode
 */
struct iVosA3DL : public virtual iBase
{
  /**
   * Get a VOS sector given a VOS URL (such as
   * "vip://interreality.org/world") for a sector object.  Doesn't
   * load it (call iVosSector::Load() to do that).
   * \param url the VOS url to the sector object
   * \return the iVosSector wrapper
   * @bug no way (yet) to specify specific failure in accessing sector
   * (just returns an empty csRef)
   */
  virtual csRef<iVosSector> GetSector(const char* url) = 0;

  /**
   * Takes a URL path for an A3DL::Object3D Vobject and returns
   * the iVosObject3D interface (suitable for fetching the mesh wrapper).
   * As of this writing, it does not load the object into the engine,
   * it must be loaded by loading the sector it is in.
   * \param url the url path to the object to fetch
   * \return the iVosObject3D wrapper
   */
  virtual csRef<iVosObject3D> FindVosObject3D(const char* url) = 0;
};


SCF_VERSION (iVosApi, 0, 1, 1);

/// \todo Document me!
struct iVosApi : public virtual iBase
{
  virtual VUtil::vRef<VOS::Vobject> GetVobject() = 0;
};


#endif