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/*
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 * distributed with this work for additional information
 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
 * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *   
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
 * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
 * specific language governing permissions and limitations
 * under the License.
 */

#ifndef REF_COUNTING_OBJECT_H
#define REF_COUNTING_OBJECT_H

#include <iostream>
#include <list>

#include "apache/das/RefCountingPointer.h"

namespace apache {
	namespace das {
	
/**
 * RefcountingObject is the base class for all objects in SDO
 * These objects keep a count of references to themselves, then
 * free themselves when they are unused.
 */
template <class T>
    class RefCountingObject
    {
		
        public:
        RefCountingObject();
		RefCountingObject(const RefCountingObject<T>& rc);
        T& operator=(const T& rc);
        virtual ~RefCountingObject();
/**
 * Add to the reference count - a new pointer has been created.
 */
        void addRef(RefCountingPointer<T>* refPtr);
/**
 * Subtract from the the reference count - a reference has dropped.
 */
        virtual void releaseRef(RefCountingPointer<T>* refPtr);

/**
 * Print contents to stream
 */
        virtual std::ostream& printSelf(std::ostream &os);

	protected:
		virtual void free(void);

        private:
			bool freed;
			unsigned int refCount;
			std::list<RefCountingPointer<T>*>* refPtrs;
       
    };

	};
};


#endif //REF_COUNTING_OBJECT_H