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+/* -*- c-basic-offset: 4 indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- vi:set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4: */
+
+/*
+ Vamp
+
+ An API for audio analysis and feature extraction plugins.
+
+ Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London.
+ Copyright 2006 Chris Cannam.
+
+ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
+ obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
+ files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
+ restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy,
+ modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
+ of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+ furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+ The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+ included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+ THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+ EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+ MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+ NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR
+ ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF
+ CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+ WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+ Except as contained in this notice, the names of the Centre for
+ Digital Music; Queen Mary, University of London; and Chris Cannam
+ shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale,
+ use or other dealings in this Software without prior written
+ authorization.
+*/
+
+#ifndef _VAMP_PLUGIN_BASE_H_
+#define _VAMP_PLUGIN_BASE_H_
+
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+#define VAMP_SDK_VERSION "1.1"
+
+namespace Vamp {
+
+/**
+ * A base class for plugins with optional configurable parameters,
+ * programs, etc. The Vamp::Plugin is derived from this, and
+ * individual Vamp plugins should derive from that.
+ *
+ * This class does not provide the necessary interfaces to instantiate
+ * or run a plugin. It only specifies an interface for retrieving
+ * those controls that the host may wish to show to the user for
+ * editing. It could meaningfully be subclassed by real-time plugins
+ * or other sorts of plugin as well as Vamp plugins.
+ */
+
+class PluginBase
+{
+public:
+ virtual ~PluginBase() { }
+
+ /**
+ * Get the Vamp API compatibility level of the plugin.
+ */
+ virtual unsigned int getVampApiVersion() const { return 1; }
+
+ /**
+ * Get the computer-usable name of the plugin. This should be
+ * reasonably short and contain no whitespace or punctuation
+ * characters. It may only contain the characters [a-zA-Z0-9_].
+ * This is the authoritative way for a program to identify a
+ * plugin within a given library.
+ *
+ * This text may be visible to the user, but it should not be the
+ * main text used to identify a plugin to the user (that will be
+ * the name, below).
+ *
+ * Example: "zero_crossings"
+ */
+ virtual std::string getIdentifier() const = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Get a human-readable name or title of the plugin. This
+ * should be brief and self-contained, as it may be used to
+ * identify the plugin to the user in isolation (i.e. without also
+ * showing the plugin's "identifier").
+ *
+ * Example: "Zero Crossings"
+ */
+ virtual std::string getName() const = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Get a human-readable description for the plugin, typically
+ * a line of text that may optionally be displayed in addition
+ * to the plugin's "name". May be empty if the name has said
+ * it all already.
+ *
+ * Example: "Detect and count zero crossing points"
+ */
+ virtual std::string getDescription() const = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Get the name of the author or vendor of the plugin in
+ * human-readable form. This should be a short identifying text,
+ * as it may be used to label plugins from the same source in a
+ * menu or similar.
+ */
+ virtual std::string getMaker() const = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Get the copyright statement or licensing summary for the
+ * plugin. This can be an informative text, without the same
+ * presentation constraints as mentioned for getMaker above.
+ */
+ virtual std::string getCopyright() const = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Get the version number of the plugin.
+ */
+ virtual int getPluginVersion() const = 0;
+
+
+ struct ParameterDescriptor
+ {
+ /**
+ * The name of the parameter, in computer-usable form. Should
+ * be reasonably short, and may only contain the characters
+ * [a-zA-Z0-9_].
+ */
+ std::string identifier;
+
+ /**
+ * The human-readable name of the parameter.
+ */
+ std::string name;
+
+ /**
+ * A human-readable short text describing the parameter. May be
+ * empty if the name has said it all already.
+ */
+ std::string description;
+
+ /**
+ * The unit of the parameter, in human-readable form.
+ */
+ std::string unit;
+
+ /**
+ * The minimum value of the parameter.
+ */
+ float minValue;
+
+ /**
+ * The maximum value of the parameter.
+ */
+ float maxValue;
+
+ /**
+ * The default value of the parameter. The plugin should
+ * ensure that parameters have this value on initialisation
+ * (i.e. the host is not required to explicitly set parameters
+ * if it wants to use their default values).
+ */
+ float defaultValue;
+
+ /**
+ * True if the parameter values are quantized to a particular
+ * resolution.
+ */
+ bool isQuantized;
+
+ /**
+ * Quantization resolution of the parameter values (e.g. 1.0
+ * if they are all integers). Undefined if isQuantized is
+ * false.
+ */
+ float quantizeStep;
+
+ /**
+ * Names for the quantized values. If isQuantized is true,
+ * this may either be empty or contain one string for each of
+ * the quantize steps from minValue up to maxValue inclusive.
+ * Undefined if isQuantized is false.
+ *
+ * If these names are provided, they should be shown to the
+ * user in preference to the values themselves. The user may
+ * never see the actual numeric values unless they are also
+ * encoded in the names.
+ */
+ std::vector<std::string> valueNames;
+ };
+
+ typedef std::vector<ParameterDescriptor> ParameterList;
+
+ /**
+ * Get the controllable parameters of this plugin.
+ */
+ virtual ParameterList getParameterDescriptors() const {
+ return ParameterList();
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Get the value of a named parameter. The argument is the identifier
+ * field from that parameter's descriptor.
+ */
+ virtual float getParameter(std::string) const { return 0.0; }
+
+ /**
+ * Set a named parameter. The first argument is the identifier field
+ * from that parameter's descriptor.
+ */
+ virtual void setParameter(std::string, float) { }
+
+
+ typedef std::vector<std::string> ProgramList;
+
+ /**
+ * Get the program settings available in this plugin. A program
+ * is a named shorthand for a set of parameter values; changing
+ * the program may cause the plugin to alter the values of its
+ * published parameters (and/or non-public internal processing
+ * parameters). The host should re-read the plugin's parameter
+ * values after setting a new program.
+ *
+ * The programs must have unique names.
+ */
+ virtual ProgramList getPrograms() const { return ProgramList(); }
+
+ /**
+ * Get the current program.
+ */
+ virtual std::string getCurrentProgram() const { return ""; }
+
+ /**
+ * Select a program. (If the given program name is not one of the
+ * available programs, do nothing.)
+ */
+ virtual void selectProgram(std::string) { }
+
+ /**
+ * Get the type of plugin. This is to be implemented by the
+ * immediate subclass, not by actual plugins. Do not attempt to
+ * implement this in plugin code.
+ */
+ virtual std::string getType() const = 0;
+};
+
+}
+
+#endif