source: code/branches/Dialog_HS17/src/modules/dialog/Dialog.h @ 11819

#ifndef _Dialog_H__
#define _Dialog_H__

#include "core/BaseObject.h"
#include "DialogPrereqs.h"
#include "Question.h"
#include "Answer.h"
#include "core/XMLPort.h"
#include "core/CoreIncludes.h"
#include "overlays/OrxonoxOverlay.h"

#include <map>
#include <vector>
#include <string>

namespace orxonox
{
                /**
        @brief
    class containing core of one dialog with one npc

    this class contains a map of all answerids to answers (player text options) and one of all questionids to questions (npc text options)
    it realizes a state machine with the question beeing the states and the answers beeing the connections, it has a current state and
    can be commanded to go to the next state according to a given answer
        */

        class _DialogExport Dialog : public BaseObject
        {
                public:
                        Dialog(Context* context);

                        virtual void XMLPort(Element& xmlelement, XMLPort::Mode mode);
                        virtual void XMLEventPort(Element& xmlelement, XMLPort::Mode mode);

                        void setName(const std::string& name);  //xmlPort-Funktion, sets Namen
                        const std::string& getName() const;     //xmlPort-Funktion, returns Namen

                        void setCurrentQuestionId(const std::string& questionId);       //xmlPort-Funktion, sets string id of current question
                        const std::string& getCurrentQuestionId() const;        //xmlPort-Funktion, returns id of current question

                        void addQuestion(Question* question); //xmlPort-Funktion, adds question to map
                        const Question* getQuestion() const; //xmlPort-Funktion, returns nullptr

                        void addAnswer(Answer* answer); //xmlPort-Funktion, adds answer to map
                        const Answer* getAnswer(unsigned int index) const; //xmlPort-Funktion, returns nullptr

                        /**
                @brief
                    returns a pointer to the array of answers belonging to the current question for use in dialogManager

                @return
                    pointer to answerId array of question
                */
                        const std::vector<std::string>* getAnswerIds(); 

                        /**
                @brief
                    function called when the trigger object defined in the xml file sets to triggered

                @param bTriggered
                    needs to be set like this for correctness
                @param trigger
                    needs to be set like this for correctness
                @return
                        not really used
                */
                        bool execute(bool bTriggered, BaseObject* trigger);

                        /**
                @brief
                    updates the current Dialog according to the id of a given answer, by setting currentQuestionId to the next one

                @param givenAnswerId
                        id of the answer given by player
                */
                        void update(const std::string& givenAnswerId);

                        /**
                @brief
                    tests if there is a next question for the given answerId

                @param givenAnswerId
                                id of the answer given by player
                @return
                        true if there is no more Question to the given answerId
                */
                        bool ending(const std::string& givenAnswerId);

                        /**
                @brief
                    gives the text of the npc in the current state

                @return
                        sting with npc text
                */
                        const std::string& getQuestionString();

                        /**
                @brief
                    returns a sting with the pc answer to the id 

                @param answerId
                        the id of the answer looked for
                @return
                        sting with answer
                */
                        const std::string& getAnswerString(std::string answerId);

                private: 
                        std::string name_;      //!< name of the npc talking
                        std::string currentQuestionId_; //!< id of the npc question currently active
                        std::map<std::string, Question*> questions_;    //!< a map form the ids of npc textoptions to the objects containing them
                        std::map<std::string, Answer*> answers_;        //!< a map form the ids of npc textoptions to the objects containing them
        };
}

#endif