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/*
 * Copyright 2011-2012 Tanjeff-Nicolai Moos <tanjeff@cccmz.de>
 *
 * This file is part of the agentXcpp library.
 *
 * AgentXcpp is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the AgentXcpp library license, version 1, which 
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#ifndef _VARBIND_H_
#define _VARBIND_H_

#include <istream>
#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>

#include "types.hpp"
#include "oid.hpp"
#include "variable.hpp"

namespace agentxcpp
{
    /**
     * \internal
     *
     * \brief Represents a VarBind according to RFC 2741, section 5.4.
     */
    class varbind
    {
        private:
            /**
             * \brief The name (OID) of the VarBind.
             */
            oid name;

            /**
             * \brief The variable inside the varbind.
             *
             * This pointer may be 0 if the varbind has a type without a 
             * variable (e.g. "NoSuchObject").
             */
            boost::shared_ptr<variable> var;

            /**
             * \brief The type of the varbind.
             *
             * This field represents the type as described in RFC 2741, section 
             * 5.4. The serialize() function will copy it directly into the 
             * varbind.
             */
            uint16_t type;
        public:

            /**
             * \brief Create a VarBind with an oid and a var.
             *
             * The variable must be one of the following types:
             * - Integer
             * - Octet_String
             * - oid
             * - IpAddress
             * - Counter32
             * - Gauge32
             * - TimeTicks
             * - Opaque
             * - Counter64
             * If the type of the variable cannot be determined, inval_param is 
             * thrown.
             */
            varbind(const oid&, boost::shared_ptr<variable> v);
            
            /**
             * \brief These values can be used to create a VarBind.
             */
            enum type_t {
                Null = 5,
                noSuchObject = 128,
                noSuchInstance = 129,
                endOfMibView = 130
            };


            /**
             * \brief Create VarBind without var, but with a type.
             *
             * Only the constants defined by varbind::type_t are allowed.  A 
             * wrong type will cause an inval_param exception.
             */
            varbind(const oid&, type_t);

            /**
             * \internal
             *
             * \brief Construct the object from input stream
             *
             * This constructor parses the serialized form of the object.
             * It takes an iterator, starts parsing at the position of the 
             * iterator and advances the iterator to the position right behind 
             * the object.
             * 
             * The constructor expects valid data from the stream; if parsing 
             * fails, parse_error is thrown. In this case, the iterator 
             * position is undefined.
             *
             * \param pos Iterator pointing to the current stream position.
             *            The iterator is advanced while reading the header.
             *
             * \param end Iterator pointing one element past the end of the
             *            current stream. This is needed to mark the end of the 
             *            buffer.
             *
             * \param big_endian Whether the input stream is in big endian
             *                   format
             */
            varbind(data_t::const_iterator& pos,
                    const data_t::const_iterator& end,
                    bool big_endian=true);

            /**
             * \internal
             *
             * \brief Serialize the varbind.
             *
             * This creates the binary representation of the varbind.
             */
            data_t serialize() const;

    };

}
#endif