BranchChildren.h

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#ifndef DataFormats_Provenance_BranchChildren_h
#define DataFormats_Provenance_BranchChildren_h

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------
  
BranchChildren: Dependency information between branches.

----------------------------------------------------------------------*/

#include <map>
#include <set>
#include "DataFormats/Provenance/interface/BranchID.h"

namespace edm {

  class BranchDescription;

  class BranchChildren {
  private:
    typedef std::set<BranchID> BranchIDSet;
    typedef std::map<BranchID, BranchIDSet> map_t;
  public:

    // Clear all information.
    void clear();

    // Insert a parent with no children.
    void insertEmpty(BranchID parent);

    // Insert a new child for the given parent.
    void insertChild(BranchID parent, BranchID child);

    // Look up all the descendants of the given parent, and insert them
    // into descendants. N.B.: this does not clear out descendants first;
    // it only appends *new* elements to the collection.
    void appendToDescendants(BranchDescription const& parent,
                             BranchIDSet& descendants,
                             std::map<BranchID, BranchID> const& droppedToKeptAlias) const;

    // const accessor for the data
    map_t const&
    childLookup() const {
      return childLookup_;
    }

  private:
    map_t childLookup_;

    void append_(map_t const& lookup,
                 BranchID item,
                 BranchIDSet& itemSet,
                 std::map<BranchID, BranchID> const& droppedToKeptAlias) const;
  };

}
#endif