/// <summary>
/// Outputs the VHDL representation of a <code>VhdlElement</code> to a <code>Writer</code> using a custom code format.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="element">the VHDL element</param>
/// <param name="format">the custom code format</param>
/// <param name="writer">the <code>Writer</code></param>
public static void toWriter(VhdlElement element, IVhdlCodeFormat format, StreamWriter writer)
{
VhdlWriter vhdlWriter = new VhdlWriter(writer, format);
OutputModule output = new VhdlOutputModule(vhdlWriter);
output.writeVhdlElement(element);
}
/// <summary>
/// Writes the VHDL representation of a <code>VhdlElement</code> to a file using a custom code format.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="element">the VHDL element</param>
/// <param name="format">the custom code format</param>
/// <param name="fileName">the name of the file</param>
public static void toFile(VhdlElement element, IVhdlCodeFormat format, string fileName)
{
FileStream stream = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(stream);
toWriter(element, format, writer);
writer.Close();
stream.Close();
}
/// <summary>
/// Converts a <code>VhdlElement</code> to a string using a custom code format.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="element">the VHDL element</param>
/// <param name="format">the custom code format</param>
/// <returns>the converted string</returns>
public static string toVhdlString(VhdlElement element, IVhdlCodeFormat format)
{
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
StreamWriter stringWriter = new StreamWriter(stream);
try
{
toWriter(element, format, stringWriter);
}
catch (IOException ex)
{
//shouldn't happen for a string writer
throw new ArgumentException();
}
stringWriter.Close();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream);
string res = reader.ReadToEnd();
reader.Close();
stream.Close();
return(res);
}
/// <summary>
/// Prints the VHDL representation of a <code>VhdlElement</code> to <code>System.out</code> using
/// a custom code format.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="element">the VHDL element</param>
/// <param name="format">the custom code format</param>
public static void print(VhdlElement element, IVhdlCodeFormat format)
{
Console.WriteLine(toVhdlString(element, format));
}
/// <summary>
/// Creates a vhdl writer adapter.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="out">the base writer</param>
/// <param name="format">the code format</param>
public VhdlWriter(StreamWriter @out, IVhdlCodeFormat format)
{
this.@out = @out;
this.format = format;
}
