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#ifndef _SRC_COMMON_CPP_CONVERTER_DATACONVERTERS_CPPJSONJOBHEADERCONVERTER_H_
#define _SRC_COMMON_CPP_CONVERTER_DATACONVERTERS_CPPJSONJOBHEADERCONVERTER_H_
#include "json/json.h"

#include "src/common_cpp/Converter/ConverterBase.hh"

namespace MAUS {

class JobHeaderData;

/*!
 * \class CppJsonJobHeaderConverter
 *
 * \brief Converts binary Cpp JobHeader into corresponding json type
 *
 * JsonCppConverter is build on \a ConverterBase as a specialisation to
 * handle the conversion of data from \a Json::Value to binary \a MausData
 * format. Since Json documents often come in the form of a string, these
 * too are accepted and parsed on the fly.
 */
  class CppJsonJobHeaderConverter : public ConverterBase<JobHeaderData, Json::Value> {
  public:
    CppJsonJobHeaderConverter()
      : ConverterBase<JobHeaderData, Json::Value>("CppJsonConverter") {}

  private:
    /*!
     * \brief Convert MausData
     * Overloaded process initiates the conversion process converting the
     * \a MausData given as the argument into the output type \a Json::Value
     *
     * \param MausData& The root \a MausData object from the cpp data structure
     * \return a pointer to the Json::Value object
     */
    Json::Value* _convert(const JobHeaderData*) const;

  private:
};
}

#endif