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// Baudouin Raoult - ECMWF Jan 2015

#ifndef mir_netcdf_Endowned
#define mir_netcdf_Endowned

#include <string>
#include <map>

namespace mir {
namespace netcdf {

class Attribute;

class Endowed {
public:
    Endowed();
    virtual ~Endowed();

    // -- Methods
    void add(Attribute *);

    void getAttributes(int nc, int i, int nattr);
    void copyAttributes(const Endowed &other);
    void mergeAttributes(const Endowed &other);

    virtual const std::string &path() const = 0;
    virtual int varid() const = 0;
    virtual const std::string &name() const = 0;

    const std::map<std::string, Attribute *> &attributes() const ;

    //=============================================

    const Attribute& getAttribute(const std::string& name) const;


protected:

    // -- Members

    std::map<std::string, Attribute *> attributes_;

private:

    Endowed(const Endowed &);
    Endowed &operator=(const Endowed &);

};

}
}
#endif
