source: branches/3.0/sources/HeuristicLab.Operators/OperatorExtractor.cs @ 8986

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using HeuristicLab.Core;
using HeuristicLab.Data;

namespace HeuristicLab.Operators {
  public class OperatorExtractor : OperatorBase {
    public override string Description {
      get { return @"An operator extractor retrievs an operator from the scope it is applied on and returns a successor operation containing this operator and the current scope. Lookup for the operator is done recursively.

Operator extractors can be used to get those operators again that have been injected by combined operators."; }
    }

    public OperatorExtractor()
      : base() {
      AddVariableInfo(new VariableInfo("Operator", "Extracted operator", typeof(IOperator), VariableKind.In));
    }

    public override IOperation Apply(IScope scope) {
      IOperator op = GetVariableValue<IOperator>("Operator", scope, true, true);
      return new AtomicOperation(op, scope);
    }
  }
}