ToolHandler.h

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#ifndef OPENMS_APPLICATIONS_TOOLHANDLER_H
#define OPENMS_APPLICATIONS_TOOLHANDLER_H

#include <OpenMS/DATASTRUCTURES/ToolDescription.h>
#include <OpenMS/DATASTRUCTURES/Map.h>
#include <OpenMS/DATASTRUCTURES/String.h>

namespace OpenMS
{
  /*
    internal details & discussion:

    We could create the list of TOPP tools and UTILS from a set of files in /share
    instead of hard coding them here.
    Advantage: - no recompile if new tool is added (but the new tool will necessitate that anyway)
               - quickly changing a tool's category (e.g. from PreProcessing to Quantitation) and thus its place in TOPPAS
                   even users could rearrange tools themselves...
    Disadvantage:
               - when to library loads, we'd need to parse all the files. Making our start-up time even longer...
               - when files are broken/missing, we will have a hard time initializing the lib
  */

  typedef Map<String, Internal::ToolDescription> ToolListType;

  class OPENMS_DLLAPI ToolHandler
  {
public:

    static ToolListType getTOPPToolList(const bool includeGenericWrapper = false);

    static ToolListType getUtilList();

    static StringList getTypes(const String & toolname);

    static String getCategory(const String & toolname);

    static String getExternalToolsPath();

    static String getInternalToolsPath();

private:

    static Internal::ToolDescription getExternalTools_();
    static QStringList getExternalToolConfigFiles_();
    static void loadExternalToolConfig_();
    static Internal::ToolDescription tools_external_;
    static bool tools_external_loaded_;

    static std::vector<Internal::ToolDescription> getInternalTools_();
    static QStringList getInternalToolConfigFiles_();
    static void loadInternalToolConfig_();
    static std::vector<Internal::ToolDescription> tools_internal_;
    static bool tools_internal_loaded_;
  };

} // namespace OpenMS

#endif //OPENMS_APPLICATIONS_TOOLHANDLER_H