H5FloatType.h

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#ifndef __H5FloatType_H
#define __H5FloatType_H

namespace H5 {

//  Inheritance: AtomType -> DataType -> H5Object -> H5Location -> IdComponent
class H5_DLLCPP FloatType : public AtomType {
   public:
        // Creates a floating-point type using a predefined type.
        FloatType(const PredType& pred_type);

        // Gets the floating-point datatype of the specified dataset.
        FloatType(const DataSet& dataset);

        // Constructors that open an HDF5 float datatype, given a location.
        FloatType(const H5Location& loc, const char* name);
        FloatType(const H5Location& loc, const H5std_string& name);

        // Returns an FloatType object via DataType* by decoding the
        // binary object description of this type.
        virtual DataType* decode() const;

        // Retrieves the exponent bias of a floating-point type.
        size_t getEbias() const;

        // Sets the exponent bias of a floating-point type.
        void setEbias(size_t ebias) const;

        // Retrieves floating point datatype bit field information.
        void getFields(size_t& spos, size_t& epos, size_t& esize, size_t& mpos, size_t& msize) const;

        // Sets locations and sizes of floating point bit fields.
        void setFields(size_t spos, size_t epos, size_t esize, size_t mpos, size_t msize) const;

        // Retrieves the internal padding type for unused bits in floating-point datatypes.
        H5T_pad_t getInpad(H5std_string& pad_string) const;

        // Fills unused internal floating point bits.
        void setInpad(H5T_pad_t inpad) const;

        // Retrieves mantissa normalization of a floating-point datatype.
        H5T_norm_t getNorm(H5std_string& norm_string) const;

        // Sets the mantissa normalization of a floating-point datatype.
        void setNorm(H5T_norm_t norm) const;

        virtual H5std_string fromClass () const { return("FloatType"); }

        // Default constructor
        FloatType();

        // Creates a floating-point datatype using an existing id.
        FloatType(const hid_t existing_id);

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

        // Noop destructor.
        virtual ~FloatType();

}; // end of FloatType
} // namespace H5

#endif // __H5FloatType_H