SavedGame.h

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#ifndef INCLUDED_SAVEDGAME
#define INCLUDED_SAVEDGAME

class CSimulation2;
class ScriptInterface;
class CScriptValRooted;
class CGUIManager;

/**
 * @file
 * Contains functions for managing saved game archives.
 *
 * A saved game is simply a zip archive with the extension '0adsave'
 * and containing two files:
 * <ul>
 *  <li>metadata.json - JSON data file containing the game metadata</li>
 *  <li>simulation.dat - the serialized simulation state data</li>
 * </ul>
 */

namespace SavedGames
{

/**
 * Create new saved game archive with given name and simulation data
 *
 * @param name Name to save the game with
 * @param description A user-given description of the save
 * @param simulation
 * @param gui if not NULL, store some UI-related data with the saved game
 * @param playerID ID of the player who saved this file
 * @return INFO::OK if successfully saved, else an error Status
 */
Status Save(const std::wstring& name, const std::wstring& description, CSimulation2& simulation, CGUIManager* gui, int playerID);

/**
 * Create new saved game archive with given prefix and simulation data
 *
 * @param prefix Create new numbered file starting with this prefix
 * @param description A user-given description of the save
 * @param simulation
 * @param gui if not NULL, store some UI-related data with the saved game
 * @param playerID ID of the player who saved this file
 * @return INFO::OK if successfully saved, else an error Status
 */
Status SavePrefix(const std::wstring& prefix, const std::wstring& description, CSimulation2& simulation, CGUIManager* gui, int playerID);

/**
 * Load saved game archive with the given name
 *
 * @param name filename of saved game (without path or extension)
 * @param scriptInterface
 * @param[out] metadata object containing metadata associated with saved game,
 *  parsed from metadata.json inside the archive.
 * @param[out] savedState serialized simulation state stored as string of bytes,
 *  loaded from simulation.dat inside the archive.
 * @return INFO::OK if successfully loaded, else an error Status
 */
Status Load(const std::wstring& name, ScriptInterface& scriptInterface, CScriptValRooted& metadata, std::string& savedState);

/**
 * Get list of saved games for GUI script usage
 *
 * @param scriptInterface the ScriptInterface in which to create the return data.
 * @return list of objects containing saved game data
 */
std::vector<CScriptValRooted> GetSavedGames(ScriptInterface& scriptInterface);

/**
 * Permanently deletes the saved game archive with the given name
 *
 * @param name filename of saved game (without path or extension)
 * @return true if deletion was successful, or false on error
 */
bool DeleteSavedGame(const std::wstring& name);

}

#endif // INCLUDED_SAVEDGAME