source: code/trunk/src/network/GameStateManager.h @ 1230

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//
// C++ Interface: GameStateManager
//
// Description:
//
//
// Author:  Oliver Scheuss, (C) 2007
//
// Copyright: See COPYING file that comes with this distribution
//
//
#ifndef _GameStateManager_H__
#define _GameStateManager_H__

#include "NetworkPrereqs.h"

#include <map>

#include "PacketTypes.h"

namespace network
{

#define KEEP_GAMESTATES 20

  /**
  * This Class implements a manager for gamestates:
  * - creating snapshots of gamestates
  * - writing gamestates to universe
  * - diffing gamestates ?
  *
  * EN/DECODATION:
  * a: last Gamestate a client has received
  * b: new Gamestate
  * x: diffed and compressed gamestate
  * x=(a^b)
  * b=(a^x)
  * diff(a,diff(a,x))=x (hope this is correct)
  * @author Oliver Scheuss
  */
  class GameStateManager{
  public:
    GameStateManager(ClientInformation *head);
    ~GameStateManager();
    void update();
    GameStateCompressed *popGameState(int clientID);
    void ackGameState(int clientID, int gamestateID);
    int id;
  private:
    GameState *getSnapshot(int id);
    GameStateCompressed *encode(GameState *a, GameState *b);
    GameStateCompressed *encode(GameState *a);
    GameState *diff(GameState *a, GameState *b);
    GameStateCompressed *compress_(GameState *a);
    bool deleteUnusedGameState(int gamestateID);

    std::map<int, GameState*> gameStateMap; //map gsID to gamestate*
    std::map<int, int> gameStateUsed; // save the number of clients, that use the specific gamestate
    GameState *reference;
    ClientInformation *head_;
  };

}

#endif /* _GameStateManager_H__ */