itkImageContainerInterface.h

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/*=========================================================================

  Program:   Insight Segmentation & Registration Toolkit
  Module:    $RCSfile: itkImageContainerInterface.h,v $
  Language:  C++
  Date:      $Date: 2002/01/15 18:56:43 $
  Version:   $Revision: 1.8 $

  Copyright (c) 2002 Insight Consortium. All rights reserved.
  See ITKCopyright.txt or http://www.itk.org/HTML/Copyright.htm for details.

     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even 
     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.

=========================================================================*/
#ifndef __itkImageContainerInterface_h
#define __itkImageContainerInterface_h

#include "itkObject.h"

namespace itk
{

template <typename TElementIdentifier, typename TElement>
class ImageContainerInterface: public Object
{
public:
  typedef ImageContainerInterface      Self;
  typedef Object  Superclass;
  typedef SmartPointer<Self>  Pointer;
  typedef SmartPointer<const Self>  ConstPointer;
  
  itkTypeMacro(ImageContainerInterface, Object);

  typedef TElementIdentifier  ElementIdentifier;
  typedef TElement            Element;
  
  virtual TElement & operator[](const ElementIdentifier)=0;

  virtual const TElement & operator[](const ElementIdentifier) const =0;

  virtual TElement *GetBufferPointer()=0;
  
  virtual unsigned long Size(void) const =0;

  virtual void Reserve(ElementIdentifier)=0;
  
  virtual void Squeeze(void)=0;
  
};

} // end namespace itk
  
#endif

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