Graph_GMLparser.hh

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#ifndef GGL_GRAPH_GML_PARSER_HH_
#define GGL_GRAPH_GML_PARSER_HH_

#include <utility>
#include <vector>

#include "ggl/Graph.hh"

namespace ggl {


    /*! @brief Graph GML parser
     *
     * This is a wrapper for the ggl::Graph_GML_grammar BNF parser that parses
     * a GML string representation of a ggl::Graph object. See there for
     * further details.
     * 
     * @author Martin Mann (c) 2012 http://www.bioinf.uni-freiburg.de/~mmann/
     * 
     */ 
    class Graph_GMLparser
    {
        
    public:
        
          //! Parses a GML string and generates a Graph object
          //! @param GML_string the string to parse
          //! @return pair.first = the graph object
          //!         pair.second = -1 if parsing was successful,
          //!         in error case it returns the string position that caused
          //!         the parsing error
        static
        std::pair< Graph, int >
        parseGraph( const std::string & GML_string );
        
    };


} // namespace ggl


#endif /*GGL_GRAPH_GML_PARSER_HH_*/