av/device/device.go

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Go

/*
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 provides AVDevice, an interface that describes a configurable
// audio or video device that can be started and stopped from which data may
// be obtained.
package device
import (
"fmt"
"io"
"bitbucket.org/ausocean/av/revid/config"
)
// Package device provides an interface and implementations for input devices
// that can be started and stopped from which media data can be obtained.
type AVDevice interface {
io.Reader
// Name returns the name of the AVDevice.
Name() string
// 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
// IsRunning is used to determine if the device is running.
IsRunning() bool
}
// 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", []error(me))
}