// Copyright David Abrahams 2001.

// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See

// accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at

// http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

#ifndef CLASS_DWA20011214_HPP

# define CLASS_DWA20011214_HPP

# include <boost/python/detail/prefix.hpp>

# include <boost/utility.hpp>

# include <boost/python/object_core.hpp>

# include <boost/python/type_id.hpp>

# include <cstddef>

namespace boost { namespace python {

namespace objects { 

struct BOOST_PYTHON_DECL class_base : python::api::object

{

    // constructor

    class_base(

        char const* name              // The name of the class

        , std::size_t num_types         // A list of class_ids. The first is the type

        , type_info const*const types    // this is wrapping. The rest are the types of

                                        // any bases.

        , char const* doc = 0           // Docstring, if any.

        );

    // Implementation detail. Hiding this in the private section would

    // require use of template friend declarations.

    void enable_pickling_(bool getstate_manages_dict);

 protected:

    void add_property(

        char const* name, object const& fget, char const* docstr);

    void add_property(char const* name, 

        object const& fget, object const& fset, char const* docstr);

    void add_static_property(char const* name, object const& fget);

    void add_static_property(char const* name, object const& fget, object const& fset);

    // Retrieve the underlying object

    void setattr(char const* name, object const&);

    // Set a special attribute in the class which tells Boost.Python

    // to allocate extra bytes for embedded C++ objects in Python

    // instances.

    void set_instance_size(std::size_t bytes);

    // Set an __init__ function which throws an appropriate exception

    // for abstract classes.

    void def_no_init();

    // Effects:

    //  setattr(self, staticmethod(getattr(self, method_name)))

    void make_method_static(const char *method_name);

};

}}} // namespace boost::python::objects

#endif // CLASS_DWA20011214_HPP