view plugin/FeatureExtractionPluginFactory.h @ 1752:6d09d68165a4 by-id

Further review of ById: make IDs only available when adding a model to the ById store, not by querying the item directly. This means any id encountered in the wild must have been added to the store at some point (even if later released), which simplifies reasoning about lifecycles

/* -*- c-basic-offset: 4 indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-  vi:set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4: */

/*
    Sonic Visualiser
    An audio file viewer and annotation editor.
    Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London.
    This file copyright 2006-2016 Chris Cannam and QMUL.
    
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*/

#ifndef SV_FEATURE_EXTRACTION_PLUGIN_FACTORY_H
#define SV_FEATURE_EXTRACTION_PLUGIN_FACTORY_H

#include <vamp-hostsdk/Plugin.h>

#include "vamp-support/PluginStaticData.h"

#include "base/BaseTypes.h"

#include <QString>

class FeatureExtractionPluginFactory
{
public:
    static FeatureExtractionPluginFactory *instance();
    
    virtual ~FeatureExtractionPluginFactory() { }

    /**
     * Return all installed plugin identifiers.
     */
    virtual std::vector<QString> getPluginIdentifiers(QString &errorMsg) = 0;
    
    /**
     * Return static data for the given plugin.
     */
    virtual piper_vamp::PluginStaticData getPluginStaticData(QString ident) = 0;
    
    /**
     * Instantiate (load) and return pointer to the plugin with the
     * given identifier, at the given sample rate. We don't set
     * blockSize or channels on this -- they're negotiated and handled
     * via initialize() on the plugin itself after loading.
     */
    virtual Vamp::Plugin *instantiatePlugin(QString identifier,
                                            sv_samplerate_t inputSampleRate) = 0;
    
    /**
     * Get category metadata about a plugin (without instantiating it).
     */
    virtual QString getPluginCategory(QString identifier) = 0;

    /**
     * Get the full file path (including both directory and filename)
     * of the library file that provides a given plugin
     * identifier. Note getPluginIdentifiers() must have been called
     * before this has access to the necessary information.
     */
    virtual QString getPluginLibraryPath(QString identifier) = 0;
};

#endif