A generic "resource" that can be saved/loaded to disk. More...

#include <ResourceLibrary.h>

Inheritance diagram for ResourceBase:

Public Member Functions
	ResourceBase (const std::string &name)

	ResourceBase (const std::string &name, const std::string &fn)

virtual bool	Load (const std::string &fn)

virtual bool	Load ()

virtual bool	Save (const std::string &fn)

virtual bool	Save ()

virtual bool	Load (std::istream &in)

virtual bool	Save (std::ostream &out)

virtual bool	Load (TiXmlElement *in)

virtual bool	Save (TiXmlElement *out)

virtual bool	Load (AnyCollection &c)

virtual bool	Save (AnyCollection &c)

virtual const char *	Type () const

virtual ResourceBase *	Make ()

virtual ResourceBase *	Copy ()

Public Attributes
std::string	name

std::string	fileName

Detailed Description

A generic "resource" that can be saved/loaded to disk.

The subclass must support saving through one or more of the following methods

to a file on disk: Load/Save(string filename)
to iostreams: Load(istream)/Save(ostream)
to xml nodes: Load/Save(TiXmlElement*)
to AnyCollections: Load/Save(AnyCollection&) (these are used by ResourceLibrary's to save to JSON) Note: subclass should not save the "name" or "fileName" members, nor parse the "name" or "file" attributes of xml elements or collections.

If the resource library is saved to a directory, then each entry is stored to a separate file.

If the resource library is saved to an xml file, then each entry that supports saving to xml is saved directly in the xml file. If it supports iostreams, then it is outputted directly as a text node in the xml file. If it only supports saving to file, then the filename is stored in the xml file and the resource is dumped to disk.