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#ifndef COIN_OUTPUTDATA_H
#define COIN_OUTPUTDATA_H

#include <Inventor/SbBasic.h>
#include <Inventor/lists/SbList.h>

class SoEngine;
class SoNodeEngine;
class SoFieldContainer;
class SoEngineOutput;
class SbName;
class SoInput;
class SoOutput;
class SoOutputDataEntry;
class SoType;

class COIN_DLL_API SoEngineOutputData {
public:
  SoEngineOutputData();
  SoEngineOutputData(const SoEngineOutputData * data);
  SoEngineOutputData(int approxnum);
  ~SoEngineOutputData();

  void addOutput(const SoEngine * base, const char *name,
                 const SoEngineOutput * output, SoType type);
  void addOutput(const SoNodeEngine * base, const char *name,
                 const SoEngineOutput * output, SoType type);

  int getNumOutputs(void) const;
  const SbName & getOutputName(int index) const;
  SoEngineOutput * getOutput(const SoEngine * engine, int index) const;
  SoEngineOutput * getOutput(const SoNodeEngine * engine, int index) const;
  int getIndex(const SoEngine * engine, const SoEngineOutput * output) const;
  int getIndex(const SoNodeEngine * engine, const SoEngineOutput * output) const;
  const SoType & getType(int index) const;
  SbBool readDescriptions(SoInput *in, SoEngine * engine) const;
  void writeDescriptions(SoOutput *out, SoEngine * engine) const;

private:
  SbBool hasOutput(const char * name) const;
  void addOutputInternal(const SoFieldContainer * base, const char *name,
                         const SoEngineOutput * output, SoType type);
  SoEngineOutput * getOutputInternal(const SoFieldContainer * base, int index) const;
  int getIndexInternal(const SoFieldContainer * base, const SoEngineOutput * output) const;

  SbList <SoOutputDataEntry*> outputlist;
};

#endif // !COIN_OUTPUTDATA_H
