/**
 * PANDA 3D SOFTWARE
 * Copyright (c) Carnegie Mellon University.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * All use of this software is subject to the terms of the revised BSD
 * license.  You should have received a copy of this license along
 * with this source code in a file named "LICENSE."
 *
 * @file handleStream.h
 * @author drose
 * @date 2009-06-05
 */

#ifndef HANDLESTREAM_H
#define HANDLESTREAM_H

#include "handleStreamBuf.h"

/**
 * Implements a C++ stream object suitable for reading from and writing to
 * Windows' HANDLE objects, or Posix file descriptors.  This is necessary to
 * map low-level pipes into an iostream for tinyxml.
 */
class HandleStream : public std::iostream {
public:
  inline HandleStream();
  inline ~HandleStream();

  inline void open_read(FHandle handle);
  inline void open_write(FHandle handle);
  inline void close();
  inline void close_handle();

  inline FHandle get_handle() const;
  inline bool has_gdata() const;

private:
  HandleStreamBuf _buf;
};

#include "handleStream.I"

#endif