/* DESCRIPTION device.go provides AVDevice, an interface that describes a configurable audio or video device that can be started and stopped from which data may be obtained. AUTHORS Saxon A. Nelson-Milton <saxon@ausocean.org> LICENSE Copyright (C) 2019 the Australian Ocean Lab (AusOcean) It is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License in gpl.txt. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses. */ package device import ( "fmt" "io" "bitbucket.org/ausocean/av/revid/config" ) // AVDevice describes a configurable audio or video device from which media data // can be obtained. AVDevice is an io.Reader. type AVDevice interface { io.Reader // Set allows for configuration of the AVDevice using a Config struct. All, // some or none of the fields of the Config struct may be used for configuration // by an implementation. An implementation should specify what fields are // considered. Set(c config.Config) error // Start will start the AVDevice capturing media data; after which the Read // method may be called to obtain the data. The format of the data may differ // and should be specified by the implementation. Start() error // Stop will stop the AVDevice from capturing media data. From this point // Reads will no longer be successful. Stop() error } // multiError implements the built in error interface. multiError is used here // to collect multi errors during validation of configruation parameters for o // AVDevices. type MultiError []error func (me MultiError) Error() string { return fmt.Sprintf("%v", me) }