Fail* directories reorganized, Code-cleanup (-> coding-style), Typos+comments fixed.

git-svn-id: https://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/i4svn/danceos/trunk/devel/fail@1321 8c4709b5-6ec9-48aa-a5cd-a96041d1645a

src/core/comm/ExperimentData.hpp

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+/**
+ * \brief This is the base class for all user-defined data types for
+ *        expirement parameter and results.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __EXPERIMENT_DATA_HPP__
+  #define __EXPERIMENT_DATA_HPP__
+
+#include <string>
+#include <google/protobuf/message.h>
+
+namespace fail {
+
+/**
+ * \class ExperimentData
+ * Container for experiment data with wrapper methods for serialization and deserialization.
+ */
+class ExperimentData {
+protected:
+	google::protobuf::Message* msg;
+	uint32_t m_workloadID;
+public:
+	ExperimentData() : msg(0), m_workloadID(0) {};
+	ExperimentData(google::protobuf::Message* m) : msg(m) , m_workloadID(0) { }
+
+	google::protobuf::Message& getMessage()  { return *msg; }
+	uint32_t getWorkloadID() const { return m_workloadID; };
+	void setWorkloadID(uint32_t id) { m_workloadID = id; }
+	/**
+	* Serializes the ExperimentData.
+	* @param ped output the target-stream.
+	* @return \c true if the serialization was successful, \c false otherwise
+	*/
+	bool serialize(std::ostream* output) const { return msg->SerializeToOstream(output); }
+	/**
+	* Unserializes the ExperimentData.
+	* @param ped input the stream which is read from
+	* @return \c true if the unserialization was successful, \c false otherwise
+	*/
+	bool unserialize(std::istream* input) { return msg->ParseFromIstream(input); }
+	/**
+	 * Returns a debug string.
+	 * @return the debug string
+	 */
+	std::string debugString() const { return msg->DebugString(); };
+};
+
+} // end-of-namespace: fail
+
+#endif //__EXPERIMENT_DATA_HPP__