BCIgui/Masterarbeit/openvibe/sdk-master/dependencies-source/lepton/CustomFunction.h

#pragma once

/* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *
 *                                   Lepton                                   *
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 * This is part of the Lepton expression parser originating from              *
 * Simbios, the NIH National Center for Physics-Based Simulation of           *
 * Biological Structures at Stanford, funded under the NIH Roadmap for        *
 * Medical Research, grant U54 GM072970. See https://simtk.org.               *
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 * Authors: Peter Eastman                                                     *
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#include "windowsIncludes.h"

namespace Lepton
{

	/**
	 * This class is the interface for defining your own function that may be included in expressions.
	 * To use it, create a concrete subclass that implements all of the virtual methods for each new function
	 * you want to define.  Then when you call Parser::parse() to parse an expression, pass a map of
	 * function names to CustomFunction objects.
	 */

	class LEPTON_EXPORT CustomFunction
	{
	public:
		virtual ~CustomFunction() { }
		/**
		 * Get the number of arguments this function exprects.
		 */
		virtual int getNumArguments() const = 0;
		/**
		 * Evaluate the function.
		 *
		 * @param arguments    the array of argument values
		 */
		virtual double evaluate(const double* arguments) const = 0;
		/**
		 * Evaluate a derivative of the function.
		 *
		 * @param arguments    the array of argument values
		 * @param derivOrder   an array specifying the number of times the function has been differentiated
		 *                     with respect to each of its arguments.  For example, the array {0, 2} indicates
		 *                     a second derivative with respect to the second argument.
		 */
		virtual double evaluateDerivative(const double* arguments, const int* derivOrder) const = 0;
		/**
		 * Create a new duplicate of this object on the heap using the "new" operator.
		 */
		virtual CustomFunction* clone() const = 0;
	};
} // namespace Lepton