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H5File.h

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#ifndef _H5File_H
#define _H5File_H

#ifndef H5_NO_NAMESPACE
namespace H5 {
#endif

class H5_DLLCPP H5File : public IdComponent, public CommonFG {
   public:
        // Creates or opens an HDF5 file.
        H5File( const char* name, unsigned int flags,
           const FileCreatPropList& create_plist = FileCreatPropList::DEFAULT,
           const FileAccPropList& access_plist = FileAccPropList::DEFAULT );
        H5File( const H5std_string& name, unsigned int flags,
           const FileCreatPropList& create_plist = FileCreatPropList::DEFAULT,
           const FileAccPropList& access_plist = FileAccPropList::DEFAULT );

        // Open the file
        void openFile(const H5std_string& name, unsigned int flags,
            const FileAccPropList& access_plist = FileAccPropList::DEFAULT);
        void openFile(const char* name, unsigned int flags,
            const FileAccPropList& access_plist = FileAccPropList::DEFAULT);

        // Close this file.
        virtual void close();

        // Flushes all buffers associated with this file to disk
        void flush(H5F_scope_t scope) const;

        // Gets the access property list of this file.
        FileAccPropList getAccessPlist() const;

        // Gets the creation property list of this file.
        FileCreatPropList getCreatePlist() const;

        // Gets the name of this file.
        H5std_string getFileName() const;

        // Retrieves the file size of an opened file.
        hsize_t getFileSize() const;

        // Returns the amount of free space in the file.
        hssize_t getFreeSpace() const;

        // Returns the number of opened object IDs (files, datasets, groups
        // and datatypes) in the same file.
        int getObjCount(unsigned types) const;
        int getObjCount() const;

        // Retrieves a list of opened object IDs (files, datasets, groups
        // and datatypes) in the same file.
        void getObjIDs(unsigned types, int max_objs, hid_t *oid_list) const;

        // Retrieves the type of object that an object reference points to.
        H5G_obj_t getObjType(void *ref, H5R_type_t ref_type = H5R_OBJECT) const;

        // Retrieves a dataspace with the region pointed to selected.
        DataSpace getRegion(void *ref, H5R_type_t ref_type = H5R_DATASET_REGION) const;

        // Returns the pointer to the file handle of the low-level file driver.
        void getVFDHandle(FileAccPropList& fapl, void **file_handle) const;
        void getVFDHandle(void **file_handle) const;

        // Determines if a file, specified by its name, is in HDF5 format
        static bool isHdf5(const char* name );
        static bool isHdf5(const H5std_string& name );

        // Reopens this file.
        void reOpen();  // added for better name
        void reopen();

        // Creates a reference to a named HDF5 object or to a dataset region
        // in this object.
        void* Reference(const char* name, DataSpace& dataspace, H5R_type_t ref_type = H5R_DATASET_REGION) const;

        // Creates a reference to a named Hdf5 object in this object.
        void* Reference(const char* name) const; // will be obsolete
        void* Reference(const H5std_string& name) const; // will be obsolete

        // Returns this class name
        virtual H5std_string fromClass () const { return("H5File"); }

        // Throw file exception.
        virtual void throwException(const H5std_string& func_name, const H5std_string& msg) const;

        // Gets the file id
        virtual hid_t getLocId() const;

        // Default constructor
        H5File();

        // Copy constructor: makes a copy of the original H5File object.
        H5File(const H5File& original);

        // H5File destructor.
        virtual ~H5File();

   private:
        // This function is private and contains common code between the
        // constructors taking a string or a char*
        void p_get_file( const char* name, unsigned int flags, const FileCreatPropList& create_plist, const FileAccPropList& access_plist );

};
#ifndef H5_NO_NAMESPACE
}
#endif
#endif

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