- Added a SICS to Hipadaba adapter

- Added a separate polling module to SICS

polldriv.h

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+/**
+ * This is the sister module to sicspoll which defines the drivers for the 
+ * various modes of polling SICS objects. 
+ * 
+ * copyright: see file COPYRIGHT
+ * 
+ * Mark Koennecke, November-December 2006
+ */
+#ifndef POLLDRIV_H_
+#define POLLDRIV_H_
+#include <time.h>
+#include <sics.h>
+/*==================== a data structure ===================================*/
+typedef struct __POLLDRIV{
+    char *objectIdentifier; /* the object identifier */
+    void *objPointer;       /* a pointer to the object */
+    time_t nextPoll;        /* next polling time */
+    int pollIntervall;      /* poll intervall */
+    int (*isDue)(struct __POLLDRIV *self, time_t now, SConnection *pCon); 
+        /* function called to determine if this object must be polled */ 
+    int (*poll)(struct __POLLDRIV *self, SConnection *pCon);   
+        /* the actual polling function */
+}PollDriv, *pPollDriv;
+/*==================== the interface =====================================*/
+/*
+ * make a poll driver
+ * @param pCon A connection to report errors too
+ * @param driver the driver type to generate
+ * @param objectIdentifier An identifer for the object to poll
+ * @param argc number of additional parameter
+ * @param *argv[] Additional parameters.
+ * @return NULL on failure or a PollDriv strucure else.
+ */
+pPollDriv makePollDriver(SConnection *pCon, char *driver,
+    char *objectIdentifier, int argc, char *argv[]);
+/**
+ * free all memory associated with this poll driver
+ * @param self The structure to delete
+ */
+void deletePollDriv(pPollDriv self);   
+     
+#endif /*POLLDRIV_H_*/