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00015 
00016 // Class VarLenType inherits from DataType and provides wrappers for
00017 // the HDF5 C's Variable-length Datatypes.
00018 
00019 #ifndef _H5VarLenType_H
00020 #define _H5VarLenType_H
00021 
00022 #ifndef H5_NO_NAMESPACE
00023 namespace H5 {
00024 #endif
00025 class H5_DLLCPP VarLenType : public DataType {
00026    public:
00027         // Returns this class name
00028         virtual string fromClass () const { return ("VarLenType"); }
00029 
00030         // Constructor that creates a variable-length datatype based
00031         // on the specified base type.
00032         VarLenType(const DataType* base_type);
00033 
00034         // Copy constructor: makes copy of the original object.
00035         VarLenType( const VarLenType& original );
00036 
00037         // Constructor that takes an existing id
00038         VarLenType( const hid_t existing_id );
00039 
00040         // Noop destructor
00041         virtual ~VarLenType();
00042 
00043    protected:
00044         // Default constructor
00045         VarLenType();
00046 
00047 };
00048 #ifndef H5_NO_NAMESPACE
00049 }
00050 #endif
00051 #endif
H5VarLenType.h
