00001 /* 00002 COSTA: Problem solving environment for data assimilation 00003 Copyright (C) 2005 Nils van Velzen 00004 00005 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 00006 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public 00007 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either 00008 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 00009 00010 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 00011 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 00012 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 00013 Lesser General Public License for more details. 00014 00015 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 00016 License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software 00017 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA 00018 */ 00019 00020 /** 00021 \file ctai_datatypes.h 00022 \brief Utility functions for working with data types. 00023 00024 \note This is just a set of utility routines it does not define any COSTA component. 00025 00026 */ 00027 00028 00029 #ifndef NL_VORTECH_CTAI_DATA_TYPS_H 00030 #define NL_VORTECH_CTAI_DATA_TYPS_H 00031 00032 #ifdef __cplusplus 00033 extern "C" { 00034 #endif 00035 /** \brief Get a CTA_Datatype object describing the data type given in string representation 00036 * 00037 * \param dt I description of data type in string form 00038 * \return CTA_Datatype describing the data type, CTA_NULL if data type is unknown 00039 */ 00040 CTA_Datatype CTAI_String2Type(const char *dt); 00041 00042 00043 00044 /** \brief Get string representation of CTA_Datatype object 00045 * 00046 * \param datatype I CTA_Datatype object describing the data type 00047 * \return pointer to string containing description of data type ("CTA_ILLEGAL_DATATYPE" if unknown) 00048 */ 00049 const char *CTAI_Type2String(CTA_Datatype datatype); 00050 #ifdef __cplusplus 00051 } 00052 #endif 00053 #endif