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#ifndef LPC_CREATE_H1118420718_INCLUDE_GUARD_
#define LPC_CREATE_H1118420718_INCLUDE_GUARD_


/* This file is part of indexlib.
 * Copyright (C) 2005 Luís Pedro Coelho <luis@luispedro.org>
 *
 * Indexlib is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation and available as file
 * GPL_V2 which is distributed along with indexlib.
 * 
 * Indexlib is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
 * MA 02110-1301, USA
 * 
 * In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
 * permission to link the code of this program with any edition of
 * the TQt library by Trolltech AS, Norway (or with modified versions
 * of TQt that use the same license as TQt), and distribute linked
 * combinations including the two.  You must obey the GNU General
 * Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than
 * TQt.  If you modify this file, you may extend this exception to
 * your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so.  If
 * you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from
 * your version.
 */

#include "index.h"
#include <memory>


namespace indexlib {
	namespace index_type {
		enum type {
			none,
			ifile = 1,
			quotes = 2
		};
	}
	/**
	 * Construct an index from a basename.
	 *
	 * Basename can be either a directory in which case the index will consist of a bunch of 
	 * files in that directory all starting with "index" (this is the prefered usage: an index is a directory)
	 * or it can be any other partial file name in which casethis name will be the starting name of all the 
	 * index files.
	 * 
	 * If basename ends with '/' a directory is created if it does not exist.
	 *
	 * This will return something like "new quotes(basename)" but by using this, you do not need to include quotes.h
	 * which needs boost headers also.
	 */
	std::auto_ptr<index> create( const char* basename, index_type::type flags = index_type::quotes );
	namespace open_flags {
		enum type { none = 0,
			create_ifile = index_type::ifile,
			create_quotes = index_type::quotes,
			fail_if_nonexistant };
	}
	std::auto_ptr<index> open( const char* basename, unsigned flags = open_flags::fail_if_nonexistant );

	/**
	 * Removes the index.
	 */
	void remove( const char* basename );
	/**
	 * Returns true if an index with that name exists, false otherwise
	 */
	bool exists( const char* basename );
}



#endif /* LPC_CREATE_H1118420718_INCLUDE_GUARD_ */