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    1/*  Part of SWI-Prolog
    2
    3    Author:        Jan Wielemaker
    4    E-mail:        J.Wielemaker@vu.nl
    5    WWW:           http://www.swi-prolog.org
    6    Copyright (c)  2015, VU University Amsterdam
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   34
   35:- module(prolog_stream,
   36          [ open_prolog_stream/4        % +Module, +Mode, -Stream, +Data
   37          ]).   38:- use_module(library(shlib)).   39:- use_foreign_library(foreign(prolog_stream)).   40
   41/** <module> A stream with Prolog callbacks
   42
   43This library defines a Prolog  stream   that  realises its low-level I/O
   44with callbacks to Prolog.  The  library   was  developed  to bind normal
   45Prolog I/O to Pengines I/O. This type of I/O redirection is probably the
   46primary use case.
   47*/
   48
   49%!  open_prolog_stream(+Module, +Mode, -Stream, +Options)
   50%
   51%   Create  a  new  stream  that  implements   its  I/O  by  calling
   52%   predicates in Module.  The called predicates are:
   53%
   54%     - Module:stream_write(+Stream, +String)
   55%     Called for a `Mode = write` stream if data is available.
   56%     String contains the (textual) data that is written
   57%     to Stream.  The callback is called if the buffer of
   58%     Stream overflows, the user calls flush_output(Stream)
   59%     or Stream is closed and there is buffered data.
   60%     - Module:stream_read(+Stream, -Term)
   61%     Called for a `Mode == read` stream to get new data.  On
   62%     success the stream extracts text from the provided Term.
   63%     Term is typically a string, atom, code or character list.
   64%     If term is not one of the above, it is handed to writeq/1.
   65%     To signal end-of-file, unify stream with an empty text,
   66%     e.g., `stream_read(Stream, "")`.
   67%     - Module:stream_close(+Stream)
   68%     Called when the stream is closed.  This predicate must
   69%     succeed.  The callback can be used to cleanup associated
   70%     resources.
   71%
   72%   The current implementation only  deals   with  text streams. The
   73%   stream uses the =wchar_t= encoding. The   buffer  size must be a
   74%   multiple of =wchar_t=, i.e., a multiple of four for portability.
   75%   The _newline_ mode of the stream   is  =posix= on all platforms,
   76%   disabling the translation `"\n" --> "\r\n"`.
   77%
   78%   @arg Options is currently ignored.
   79%   @bug    Futher versions might require additional callbacks.  As we
   80%           demand all callbacks to be defined, existing code needs
   81%           to implement the new callbacks.