Documented CCDBBankHandler class.

code/nel/include/nel/misc/cdb_bank_handler.h

@@ -22,36 +22,95 @@
 
 namespace NLMISC{
 
+/**
+ @brief Manages the bank names and mappings of the CDB it's associated with
+
+ Banks are numeric identifiers for the top-level branches of the CDB.
+ They are used for saving bandwidth, because the local CDBs are updated with deltas,
+ that identify the updatable top-level branch with this id.
+ The CCDBBankHandler manages the mapping of banks to their names, unified (node) index,
+ and the other way around.
+
+ */
 class CCDBBankHandler{
 public:
+	/**
+	 @brief The class' constructor
+	 @param maxbanks the maximum number of banks we need to handle
+	*/
 	CCDBBankHandler( uint maxbanks );
 
+	/// Very surprisingly this is the destructor
 	~CCDBBankHandler(){}
 
+	/**
+	 @brief   Returns the unified (node) index for the specified bank Id.
+	 @param   bank The bank whose uid we need.
+	 @return  Returns an uid or static_cast< uint >( -1 ) on failure.
+	*/
 	uint getUIDForBank( uint bank ) const;
 
+	/**
+	 @brief   Returns the bank Id for the specified unified (node) index.
+	 @param   uid The unified (node) index we need to translate to bank Id.
+	 @return  Returns a bank Id.
+	*/
 	uint getBankForUID( uint uid ) const{ return _UnifiedIndexToBank[ uid ]; }
 
+	/// Returns the last unified (node) index we mapped.
 	uint getLastUnifiedIndex() const{ return _CDBLastUnifiedIndex; }
 
+	/**
+	 @brief   Returns the number of bits used to store the number of nodes that belong to this bank.
+	 @param   bank The banks whose id bits we need.
+	 @return  Returns the number of bits used to store the number of nodes that belong to this bank.
+	*/
 	uint getFirstLevelIdBits( uint bank ) const{ return _FirstLevelIdBitsByBank[ bank ]; }
 
+	/**
+	 @brief   Returns the name of the specified bank.
+	 @param   bank The id of the bank we need the name of.
+	 @return  Returns the name of the specified bank.
+	*/
 	std::string getBankName( uint bank ) const{ return _CDBBankNames[ bank ]; }
 
+	/**
+	 @brief   Looks up the bank Id of the bank name specified.
+	 @param   name The name of the bank whose Id we need.
+	 @return  Returns the id of the bank, or static_cast< uint >( -1 ) on fail.
+	*/
 	uint getBankByName( const std::string &name ) const;
 
+	/**
+	 @brief   Maps the specified bank name to a unified (node) index and vica versa.
+	 @param   bankName Name of the bank to map.
+	*/
 	void mapNodeByBank( const std::string &bankName );
 
+	/**
+	 @brief   Loads the known bank names from an array ( the order decides the bank Id ).
+	 @param   strings The array of the banks names.
+	 @param   size    The size of the array.
+	*/
 	void fillBankNames( const char **strings, uint size );
 
+	/// Resets the node to bank mapping vector
 	void resetNodeBankMapping(){ _UnifiedIndexToBank.clear(); }
 
+	/// Resets all maps, and sets _CDBLastUnifiedIndex to 0.
 	void reset();
 
 	uint getUnifiedIndexToBankSize() const{ return _UnifiedIndexToBank.size(); }
 
+	/// Calculates the number of bits used to store the number of nodes that belong to the banks.
 	void calcIdBitsByBank();
 
+	/**
+	 @brief   Looks up the unified (node) index of a bank node.
+	 @param   bank  The bank id of the node we are looking up.
+	 @param   index The index of the node within the bank.
+	 @return  Returns the unified (node) index of the specified bank node.
+	*/
 	uint getServerToClientUIDMapping( uint bank, uint index ) const{ return _CDBBankToUnifiedIndexMapping[ bank ][ index ]; }
 
 private:
@@ -70,6 +129,7 @@ private:
 	/// Names of the CDB banks
 	std::vector< std::string > _CDBBankNames;
 
+	/// The number of banks used
 	uint maxBanks;
 };