/* This file is part of the Gudhi Library. The Gudhi library
* (Geometric Understanding in Higher Dimensions) is a generic C++
* library for computational topology.
*
* Author(s): Pawel Dlotko
*
* Copyright (C) 2016 Inria
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program 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, see .
*/
#ifndef CONCEPT_VECTORIZED_TOPOLOGICAL_DATA_H_
#define CONCEPT_VECTORIZED_TOPOLOGICAL_DATA_H_
namespace Gudhi {
namespace Persistence_representations {
/** \brief The concept Vectorized_topological_data describes the requirements
* for a type to implement a container that allows vectorization.
*/
class Vectorized_topological_data {
public:
/**
* There are various ways data can be vectorized. This function give us the number of functions for vectorization
*provided by a given class.
**/
size_t number_of_vectorize_functions();
/**
* This is a function to vectorize given container. The parameter of a function have to be between 0 and the value
*returned by number_of_vectorize_functions().
**/
std::vector vectorize(int number_of_function);
};
} // namespace Persistence_representations
} // namespace Gudhi
#endif // CONCEPT_VECTORIZED_TOPOLOGICAL_DATA_H_