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// .NAME vtkSMSelectionHelper - Utility class to help with selection tasks
// .SECTION Description
// This class contains several static methods that help with the
// complicated selection task.

#ifndef __vtkSMSelectionHelper_h
#define __vtkSMSelectionHelper_h

#include "vtkSMObject.h"

class vtkSelection;
class vtkSelectionNode;
class vtkSMProxy;
class vtkSMSourceProxy;

class VTK_EXPORT vtkSMSelectionHelper : public vtkSMObject
{
public:
  static vtkSMSelectionHelper* New();
  vtkTypeRevisionMacro(vtkSMSelectionHelper, vtkSMObject);
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

  // Description:
  // Given a selection object, creates a server side representation which
  // can be accessed using the given proxy.
  static void SendSelection(vtkSelection* sel, vtkSMProxy* proxy);

  // Description:
  // Convert a polydata selection on the surface to an unstructured
  // selection on the surface. The input selection belongs to the output of
  // the geometry filter, the output selection belongs to the input of the
  // geometry filter. 
  // vtkSelectionConverter requires certain properties to
  // be set for this to work. See vtkSelectionConverter documentation.
  // Make sure to specify the connection id for the server on which
  // the selection was performed.
  static void ConvertSurfaceSelectionToVolumeSelection(vtkIdType connectionID,
                                                       vtkSelection* input,
                                                       vtkSelection* output);

  // Description:
  // Same as ConvertSurfaceSelectionToVolumeSelection except that the
  // converted selection is in terms on GlobalIDs.
  static void ConvertSurfaceSelectionToGlobalIDVolumeSelection(vtkIdType connectionID,
    vtkSelection* input, vtkSelection* output);

  // Description:
  // Given a selection, returns a proxy for a selection source that has
  // the ids specified by it. This source can then be used as input
  // to a vtkExtractSelection filter.
  // CAVEAT: Make sure to specify the connection id for the server on which
  // the selection was performed. This method can only handle 3 types of
  // selection FRUSTUM, INDICES and GLOBALIDS. We can easily change this to
  // handle all other types of selection but that's not required currently and
  // hence we not adding that code.
  static vtkSMProxy* NewSelectionSourceFromSelection(vtkIdType connectionID,
                                                     vtkSelection* selection);

  // Description:
  // Given the ContentType for an output vtkSelection, this create a new source
  // proxy generating the selection, the input selectionSourceProxy is used to
  // fill the default values for created selection source.
  static vtkSMProxy* ConvertSelection(int outputType,
    vtkSMProxy* selectionSourceProxy,
    vtkSMSourceProxy* dataSource, int outputport);

  // Description:
  // Updates output to be a combination of (input | output) if the two selection
  // sources are mergeable. Returns true if merge successful.
  static bool MergeSelection(vtkSMSourceProxy* output, vtkSMSourceProxy* input);

protected:
  vtkSMSelectionHelper() {};
  ~vtkSMSelectionHelper() {};

  static void ConvertSurfaceSelectionToVolumeSelectionInternal(
    vtkIdType connectionID, vtkSelection* input, vtkSelection* output,
    int global_ids);

private:
  vtkSMSelectionHelper(const vtkSMSelectionHelper&); // Not implemented.
  void operator=(const vtkSMSelectionHelper&); // Not implemented.

  static vtkSMProxy* NewSelectionSourceFromSelectionInternal(
    vtkIdType connectionId, vtkSelectionNode* selection, vtkSMProxy* selSource=0);

  static vtkSMProxy* ConvertInternal(
    vtkSMSourceProxy* inSource, vtkSMSourceProxy* dataSource,
    int dataPort, int outputType);
};

#endif

