//========= Copyright Valve Corporation, All rights reserved. ============//
//
// Purpose: Template entities are used by spawners to create copies of entities
//			that were configured by the level designer. This allows us
//to spawn 			entities with arbitrary sets of key/value data and entity I/O
//			connections.
//
//=============================================================================//

#ifndef TEMPLATEENTITIES_H
#define TEMPLATEENTITIES_H
#ifdef _WIN32
#pragma once
#endif

#include "isaverestore.h"

class CBaseEntity;
class CPointTemplate;

int Templates_Add(CBaseEntity *pEntity, const char *pszMapData, int nLen);
string_t Templates_FindByIndex(int iIndex);
int Templates_GetStringSize(int iIndex);
string_t Templates_FindByTargetName(const char *pszName);
void Templates_ReconnectIOForGroup(CPointTemplate *pGroup);

// Some templates have Entity I/O connecting the entities within the template.
// Unique versions of these templates need to be created whenever they're
// instanced.
void Templates_StartUniqueInstance(void);
bool Templates_IndexRequiresEntityIOFixup(int iIndex);
char *Templates_GetEntityIOFixedMapData(int iIndex);

// Save / Restore
ISaveRestoreBlockHandler *GetTemplateSaveRestoreBlockHandler(void);

#endif  // TEMPLATEENTITIES_H