// Copyright (c) 2005-2021 Jay Berkenbilt
// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Jay Berkenbilt and Manfred Holger
//
// This file is part of qpdf.
//
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// Versions of qpdf prior to version 7 were released under the terms of version 2.0 of the Artistic
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// Please see the manual for additional information.

#ifndef QPDFOBJECTHELPER_HH
#define QPDFOBJECTHELPER_HH

#include <qpdf/DLL.h>

#include <qpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.hh>

// This is a base class for QPDF Object Helper classes. Object helpers are classes that provide a
// convenient, higher-level API for working with specific types of QPDF objects. Object helpers are
// always initialized with a QPDFObjectHandle, and the underlying object handle can always be
// retrieved. The intention is that you may freely intermix use of object helpers with the
// underlying QPDF objects unless there is a specific comment in a specific helper method that says
// otherwise. The pattern of using helper objects was introduced to allow creation of higher level
// helper functions without polluting the public interface of QPDFObjectHandle.

class QPDF_DLL_CLASS QPDFObjectHelper
{
  public:
    QPDF_DLL
    QPDFObjectHelper(QPDFObjectHandle oh) :
        oh(oh)
    {
    }
    QPDF_DLL
    virtual ~QPDFObjectHelper();
    QPDF_DLL
    QPDFObjectHandle
    getObjectHandle()
    {
        return this->oh;
    }
    QPDF_DLL
    QPDFObjectHandle const
    getObjectHandle() const
    {
        return this->oh;
    }

  protected:
    QPDFObjectHandle oh;
};

#endif // QPDFOBJECTHELPER_HH