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/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \file
///
/// Provides a simple API that abstracts the reading and writing of
/// images.  Subclasses, which may be found in DSO/DLL's, implement
/// particular formats.
///
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


#ifndef OPENIMAGEIO_IMAGEIO_H
#define OPENIMAGEIO_IMAGEIO_H

#if defined(_MSC_VER)
// Ignore warnings about DLL exported classes with member variables that are template classes.
// This happens with the std::vector<T> and std::string members of the classes below.
#  pragma warning (disable : 4251)
#endif

#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <limits>
#include <cmath>

#include "export.h"
#include "oiioversion.h"
#include "platform.h"
#include "typedesc.h"   /* Needed for TypeDesc definition */
#include "paramlist.h"

OIIO_NAMESPACE_BEGIN

/// Type we use for stride lengths.  This is only used to designate
/// pixel, scanline, tile, or image plane sizes in user-allocated memory,
/// so it doesn't need to represent sizes larger than can be malloced,
/// therefore ptrdiff_t seemed right.
typedef ptrdiff_t stride_t;


/// Type we use to express how many pixels (or bytes) constitute an image,
/// tile, or scanline.  Needs to be large enough to handle very big images
/// (which we presume could be > 4GB).
#if defined(LINUX64) || defined(_WIN64) || defined(__x86_64__) /* add others if we know for sure size_t is ok */
typedef size_t imagesize_t;
#else
typedef unsigned long long imagesize_t;
#endif



/// Special value to indicate a stride length that should be
/// auto-computed.
const stride_t AutoStride = std::numeric_limits<stride_t>::min();



/// Pointer to a function called periodically by read_image and
/// write_image.  This can be used to implement progress feedback, etc.
/// It takes an opaque data pointer (passed to read_image/write_image)
/// and a float giving the portion of work done so far.  It returns a
/// bool, which if 'true' will STOP the read or write.
typedef bool (*ProgressCallback)(void *opaque_data, float portion_done);



typedef ParamValue ImageIOParameter;
typedef ParamValueList ImageIOParameterList;



/// ImageSpec describes the data format of an image --
/// dimensions, layout, number and meanings of image channels.
class OIIO_API ImageSpec {
public:
    int x, y, z;              ///< origin (upper left corner) of pixel data
    int width;                ///< width of the pixel data window
    int height;               ///< height of the pixel data window
    int depth;                ///< depth of pixel data, >1 indicates a "volume"
    int full_x;               ///< origin of the full (display) window
    int full_y;               ///< origin of the full (display) window
    int full_z;               ///< origin of the full (display) window
    int full_width;           ///< width of the full (display) window
    int full_height;          ///< height of the full (display) window
    int full_depth;           ///< depth of the full (display) window
    int tile_width;           ///< tile width (0 for a non-tiled image)
    int tile_height;          ///< tile height (0 for a non-tiled image)
    int tile_depth;           ///< tile depth (0 for a non-tiled image,
                              ///<             1 for a non-volume image)
    int nchannels;            ///< number of image channels, e.g., 4 for RGBA
    TypeDesc format;          ///< data format of the channels
    std::vector<TypeDesc> channelformats;   ///< Optional per-channel formats
    std::vector<std::string> channelnames;  ///< Names for each channel,
                                            ///< e.g., {"R","G","B","A"}
    int alpha_channel;        ///< Index of alpha channel, or -1 if not known
    int z_channel;            ///< Index of depth channel, or -1 if not known
    bool deep;                ///< Contains deep data

    /// The above contains all the information that is likely needed for
    /// every image file, and common to all formats.  Rather than bloat
    /// this structure, customize it for new formats, or break back
    /// compatibility as we think of new things, we provide extra_attribs
    /// as a holder for any other properties of the image.  The public
    /// functions attribute and find_attribute may be used to access
    /// these data.  Note, however, that the names and semantics of such
    /// extra attributes are plugin-dependent and are not enforced by
    /// the imageio library itself.
    ImageIOParameterList extra_attribs;  ///< Additional attributes

    /// Constructor: given just the data format, set all other fields to
    /// something reasonable.
    ImageSpec (TypeDesc format = TypeDesc::UNKNOWN);

    /// Constructor for simple 2D scanline image with nothing special.
    /// If fmt is not supplied, default to unsigned 8-bit data.
    ImageSpec (int xres, int yres, int nchans, TypeDesc fmt = TypeDesc::UINT8);

    /// Set the data format.
    void set_format (TypeDesc fmt);

    /// Set the channelnames to reasonable defaults ("R", "G", "B", "A"),
    /// and alpha_channel, based on the number of channels.
    void default_channel_names ();

    /// Return the number of bytes for each channel datum, assuming they
    /// are all stored using the data format given by this->format.
    size_t channel_bytes() const { return format.size(); }

    /// Return the number of bytes needed for the single specified
    /// channel.  If native is false (default), compute the size of one
    /// channel of this->format, but if native is true, compute the size
    /// of the channel in terms of the "native" data format of that
    /// channel as stored in the file.
    size_t channel_bytes (int chan, bool native=false) const;

    /// Return the number of bytes for each pixel (counting all channels).
    /// If native is false (default), assume all channels are in 
    /// this->format, but if native is true, compute the size of a pixel
    /// in the "native" data format of the file (these may differ in
    /// the case of per-channel formats).
    /// This will return std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max() in the
    /// event of an overflow where it's not representable in a size_t.
    size_t pixel_bytes (bool native=false) const;

    /// Return the number of bytes for just the subset of channels in
    /// each pixel described by [chbegin,chend).
    /// If native is false (default), assume all channels are in 
    /// this->format, but if native is true, compute the size of a pixel
    /// in the "native" data format of the file (these may differ in
    /// the case of per-channel formats).
    /// This will return std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max() in the
    /// event of an overflow where it's not representable in a size_t.
    size_t pixel_bytes (int chbegin, int chend, bool native=false) const;

    /// Return the number of bytes for each scanline.  This will return
    /// std::numeric_limits<imagesize_t>::max() in the event of an
    /// overflow where it's not representable in an imagesize_t.
    /// If native is false (default), assume all channels are in 
    /// this->format, but if native is true, compute the size of a pixel
    /// in the "native" data format of the file (these may differ in
    /// the case of per-channel formats).
    imagesize_t scanline_bytes (bool native=false) const;

    /// Return the number of pixels for a tile.  This will return
    /// std::numeric_limits<imagesize_t>::max() in the event of an
    /// overflow where it's not representable in an imagesize_t.
    imagesize_t tile_pixels () const;

    /// Return the number of bytes for each a tile of the image.  This
    /// will return std::numeric_limits<imagesize_t>::max() in the event
    /// of an overflow where it's not representable in an imagesize_t.
    /// If native is false (default), assume all channels are in 
    /// this->format, but if native is true, compute the size of a pixel
    /// in the "native" data format of the file (these may differ in
    /// the case of per-channel formats).
    imagesize_t tile_bytes (bool native=false) const;

    /// Return the number of pixels for an entire image.  This will
    /// return std::numeric_limits<imagesize_t>::max() in the event of
    /// an overflow where it's not representable in an imagesize_t.
    imagesize_t image_pixels () const;

    /// Return the number of bytes for an entire image.  This will
    /// return std::numeric_limits<image size_t>::max() in the event of
    /// an overflow where it's not representable in an imagesize_t.
    /// If native is false (default), assume all channels are in 
    /// this->format, but if native is true, compute the size of a pixel
    /// in the "native" data format of the file (these may differ in
    /// the case of per-channel formats).
    imagesize_t image_bytes (bool native=false) const;

    /// Verify that on this platform, a size_t is big enough to hold the
    /// number of bytes (and pixels) in a scanline, a tile, and the
    /// whole image.  If this returns false, the image is much too big
    /// to allocate and read all at once, so client apps beware and check
    /// these routines for overflows!
    bool size_t_safe() const {
        const imagesize_t big = std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max();
        return image_bytes() < big && scanline_bytes() < big &&
            tile_bytes() < big;
    }

    /// Adjust the stride values, if set to AutoStride, to be the right
    /// sizes for contiguous data with the given format, channels,
    /// width, height.
    static void auto_stride (stride_t &xstride, stride_t &ystride,
                             stride_t &zstride, stride_t channelsize,
                             int nchannels, int width, int height) {
        if (xstride == AutoStride)
            xstride = nchannels * channelsize;
        if (ystride == AutoStride)
            ystride = xstride * width;
        if (zstride == AutoStride)
            zstride = ystride * height;
    }

    /// Adjust the stride values, if set to AutoStride, to be the right
    /// sizes for contiguous data with the given format, channels,
    /// width, height.
    static void auto_stride (stride_t &xstride, stride_t &ystride,
                             stride_t &zstride, TypeDesc format,
                             int nchannels, int width, int height) {
        auto_stride (xstride, ystride, zstride, format.size(),
                     nchannels, width, height);
    }

    /// Adjust xstride, if set to AutoStride, to be the right size for
    /// contiguous data with the given format and channels.
    static void auto_stride (stride_t &xstride, TypeDesc format, int nchannels) {
        if (xstride == AutoStride)
            xstride = nchannels * format.size();
    }

    /// Add an optional attribute to the extra attribute list
    ///
    void attribute (string_view name, TypeDesc type, const void *value);

    /// Add an optional attribute to the extra attribute list.
    ///
    void attribute (string_view name, TypeDesc type, string_view value);

    /// Add an unsigned int attribute
    ///
    void attribute (string_view name, unsigned int value) {
        attribute (name, TypeDesc::UINT, &value);
    }

    /// Add an int attribute
    ///
    void attribute (string_view name, int value) {
        attribute (name, TypeDesc::INT, &value);
    }

    /// Add a float attribute
    ///
    void attribute (string_view name, float value) {
        attribute (name, TypeDesc::FLOAT, &value);
    }

    /// Add a string attribute
    ///
    void attribute (string_view name, string_view value) {
        const char *s = value.c_str();
        attribute (name, TypeDesc::STRING, &s);
    }

    /// Remove the specified attribute from the list of extra_attribs. If
    /// not found, do nothing.  If searchtype is anything but UNKNOWN,
    /// restrict matches to only those of the given type. If casesensitive
    /// is true, the name search will be case-sensitive, otherwise the name
    /// search will be performed without regard to case (this is the
    /// default).
    void erase_attribute (string_view name,
                          TypeDesc searchtype=TypeDesc::UNKNOWN,
                          bool casesensitive=false);

    /// Search for an attribute of the given name in the list of
    /// extra_attribs. If searchtype is anything but UNKNOWN, restrict
    /// matches to only those of the given type. If casesensitive is true,
    /// the name search will be case-sensitive, otherwise the name search
    /// will be performed without regard to case (this is the default).
    ImageIOParameter * find_attribute (string_view name,
                                       TypeDesc searchtype=TypeDesc::UNKNOWN,
                                       bool casesensitive=false);
    const ImageIOParameter *find_attribute (string_view name,
                                            TypeDesc searchtype=TypeDesc::UNKNOWN,
                                            bool casesensitive=false) const;

    /// Search for the named attribute and return a pointer to an
    /// ImageIOParameter record, or NULL if not found.  This variety of
    /// find_attribute() can retrieve items such as "width", which are part
    /// of the ImageSpec, but not in extra_attribs. The tmpparam is a
    /// temporary storage area owned by the caller, which is used as
    /// temporary buffer in cases where the information does not correspond
    /// to an actual extra_attribs (in this case, the return value will be
    /// &tmpparam).
    const ImageIOParameter * find_attribute (string_view name,
                         ImageIOParameter &tmpparam,
                         TypeDesc searchtype=TypeDesc::UNKNOWN,
                         bool casesensitive=false) const;

    /// Simple way to get an integer attribute, with default provided.
    /// Automatically will return an int even if the data is really
    /// unsigned, short, or byte.
    int get_int_attribute (string_view name, int defaultval=0) const;

    /// Simple way to get a float attribute, with default provided.
    /// Automatically will return a float even if the data is really
    /// double or half.
    float get_float_attribute (string_view name, float defaultval=0) const;

    /// Simple way to get a string attribute, with default provided.
    ///
    string_view get_string_attribute (string_view name,
                           string_view defaultval = string_view()) const;

    /// For a given parameter p, format the value nicely as a string.  If
    /// 'human' is true, use especially human-readable explanations (units,
    /// or decoding of values) for certain known metadata.
    static std::string metadata_val (const ImageIOParameter &p,
                              bool human=false);

    /// Convert ImageSpec class into XML string.
    ///
    std::string to_xml () const;

    /// Get an ImageSpec class from XML string.
    ///
    void from_xml (const char *xml);

    /// Helper function to verify that the given pixel range exactly covers
    /// a set of tiles.  Also returns false if the spec indicates that the
    /// image isn't tiled at all.
    bool valid_tile_range (int xbegin, int xend, int ybegin, int yend,
                           int zbegin, int zend) {
        return (tile_width &&
                ((xbegin-x) % tile_width)  == 0 &&
                ((ybegin-y) % tile_height) == 0 &&
                ((zbegin-z) % tile_depth)  == 0 &&
                (((xend-x) % tile_width)  == 0 || (xend-x) == width) &&
                (((yend-y) % tile_height) == 0 || (yend-y) == height) &&
                (((zend-z) % tile_depth)  == 0 || (zend-z) == depth));
    }

    /// Return teh channelformat of the given channel.
    TypeDesc channelformat (int chan) const {
        return chan >= 0 && chan < (int)channelformats.size()
            ? channelformats[chan] : format;
    }

    /// Fill in an array of channel formats describing all channels in
    /// the image.  (Note that this differs slightly from the member
    /// data channelformats, which is empty if there are not separate
    /// per-channel formats.)
    void get_channelformats (std::vector<TypeDesc> &formats) const {
        formats = channelformats;
        if ((int)formats.size() < nchannels)
            formats.resize (nchannels, format);
    }
};



/// Structure to hold "deep" data -- multiple samples per pixel.
struct OIIO_API DeepData {
public:
    int npixels, nchannels;
    std::vector<TypeDesc> channeltypes;  // for each channel [c]
    std::vector<unsigned int> nsamples;// for each pixel [z][y][x]
    std::vector<void *> pointers;    // for each channel per pixel [z][y][x][c]
    std::vector<char> data;          // for each sample [z][y][x][c][s]

    /// Construct an empty DeepData.
    DeepData () : npixels(0), nchannels(0) { }

    /// Construct and init from an ImageSpec.
    DeepData (const ImageSpec &spec) {init (spec); }

    /// Clear the vectors and reset size to 0.
    void clear ();
    /// Deallocate all space in the vectors
    void free ();

    /// Initialize size and allocate nsamples, pointers. It is important to
    /// completely fill in nsamples after init() but before alling alloc().
    /// DEPRECATED
    void init (int npix, int nchan,
               const TypeDesc *chbegin, const TypeDesc *chend);

    /// Initialize size and allocate nsamples, pointers based on the number
    /// of pixels, channels, and channel types in the ImageSpec. It is
    /// important to completely fill in nsamples after init() but before
    /// alling alloc().
    void init (const ImageSpec &spec);

    /// Retrieve the total number of pixels.
    int pixels () const { return npixels; }
    /// Retrieve the number of channels.
    int channels () const { return nchannels; }
    /// Retrieve the channel type of channel c.
    TypeDesc channeltype (int c) const { return channeltypes[c]; }

    /// Retrieve the number of samples for the given pixel index.
    int samples (int pixel) const;

    /// Set the number of samples for the given pixel. This must be called
    /// after init(), but before alloc().
    void set_samples (int pixel, int samps);

    /// After set_samples() has been set for all pixels, call alloc() to
    /// allocate enough scratch space for data and set up all the pointers.
    void alloc ();

    /// Retrieve deep sample value within a pixel, cast to a float.
    float deep_value (int pixel, int channel, int sample) const;
    /// Retrieve deep sample value within a pixel, as an untigned int.
    uint32_t deep_value_uint (int pixel, int channel, int sample) const;

    /// Set deep sample value within a pixel, as a float.
    /// It will automatically call alloc() if it has not yet been called.
    void set_deep_value (int pixel, int channel, int sample, float value);
    /// Set deep sample value within a pixel, as a uint32.
    /// It will automatically call alloc() if it has not yet been called.
    void set_deep_value (int pixel, int channel, int sample, uint32_t value);

    /// Retrieve the pointer to the first sample of the given pixel and
    /// channel. Return NULL if there are no samples for that pixel.
    /// Use with care.
    void *channel_ptr (int pixel, int channel);
    const void *channel_ptr (int pixel, int channel) const;
};



/// ImageInput abstracts the reading of an image file in a file
/// format-agnostic manner.
class OIIO_API ImageInput {
public:
    /// Create an ImageInput subclass instance that is able to read
    /// the given file and open it, returning the opened ImageInput if
    /// successful.  If it fails, return NULL and set an error that can
    /// be retrieved by OpenImageIO::geterror().
    ///
    /// The 'config', if not NULL, points to an ImageSpec giving
    /// requests or special instructions.  ImageInput implementations
    /// are free to not respond to any such requests, so the default
    /// implementation is just to ignore config.
    ///
    /// open() will first try to make an ImageInput corresponding to
    /// the format implied by the file extension (for example, "foo.tif"
    /// will try the TIFF plugin), but if one is not found or if the
    /// inferred one does not open the file, every known ImageInput type
    /// will be tried until one is found that will open the file.
    static ImageInput *open (const std::string &filename,
                             const ImageSpec *config = NULL);

    /// Create and return an ImageInput implementation that is willing
    /// to read the given file.  The plugin_searchpath parameter is a
    /// colon-separated list of directories to search for ImageIO plugin
    /// DSO/DLL's (not a searchpath for the image itself!).  This will
    /// actually just try every imageio plugin it can locate, until it
    /// finds one that's able to open the file without error.  This just
    /// creates the ImageInput, it does not open the file.
    ///
    /// If the caller intends to immediately open the file, then it is
    /// simpler to call static ImageInput::open().
    static ImageInput *create (const std::string &filename,
                               const std::string &plugin_searchpath="");

    /// Destroy an ImageInput that was created using ImageInput::create() or
    /// the static open(). For some systems (Windows, I'm looking at you),
    /// it is not necessarily safe to allocate memory in one DLL and free it
    /// in another, so directly calling 'delete' on an ImageInput allocated
    /// by create() or open() may be unusafe, but passing it to destroy()
    /// should be safe.
    static void destroy (ImageInput *x);

    ImageInput ();
    virtual ~ImageInput ();

    /// Return the name of the format implemented by this class.
    ///
    virtual const char *format_name (void) const = 0;

    /// Given the name of a 'feature', return whether this ImageInput
    /// supports input of images with the given properties. Most queries
    /// will simply return 0 for "doesn't support" and nonzero for "supports
    /// it", but it is acceptable to have queries return other nonzero
    /// integers to indicate varying degrees of support or limits (but
    /// should be clearly documented as such).
    ///
    /// Feature names that ImageIO plugins are expected to recognize
    /// include:
    ///    "arbitrary_metadata" Does this format allow metadata with
    ///                        arbitrary names and types?
    ///    "exif"           Can this format store Exif camera data?
    ///    "iptc"           Can this format store IPTC data?
    ///    "procedural"     Can this format create images without reading
    ///                        from a disk file?
    ///
    /// Note that main advantage of this approach, versus having
    /// separate individual supports_foo() methods, is that this allows
    /// future expansion of the set of possible queries without changing
    /// the API, adding new entry points, or breaking linkage
    /// compatibility.
    virtual int supports (string_view feature) const { return false; }

    /// Return true if the named file is file of the type for this
    /// ImageInput.  The implementation will try to determine this as
    /// efficiently as possible, in most cases much less expensively
    /// than doing a full open().  Note that a file can appear to be of
    /// the right type (i.e., valid_file() returning true) but still
    /// fail a subsequent call to open(), such as if the contents of the
    /// file are truncated, nonsensical, or otherwise corrupted.
    virtual bool valid_file (const std::string &filename) const;

    /// Open file with given name.  Various file attributes are put in
    /// newspec and a copy is also saved in this->spec.  From these
    /// attributes, you can discern the resolution, if it's tiled,
    /// number of channels, and native data format.  Return true if the
    /// file was found and opened okay.
    virtual bool open (const std::string &name, ImageSpec &newspec) = 0;

    /// Open file with given name, similar to open(name,newspec). The
    /// 'config' is an ImageSpec giving requests or special
    /// instructions.  ImageInput implementations are free to not
    /// respond to any such requests, so the default implementation is
    /// just to ignore config and call regular open(name,newspec).
    virtual bool open (const std::string &name, ImageSpec &newspec,
                       const ImageSpec & /*config*/) { return open(name,newspec); }

    /// Return a reference to the image format specification of the
    /// current subimage/MIPlevel.  Note that the contents of the spec
    /// are invalid before open() or after close(), and may change with
    /// a call to seek_subimage().
    const ImageSpec &spec (void) const { return m_spec; }

    /// Close an image that we are totally done with.
    ///
    virtual bool close () = 0;

    /// Returns the index of the subimage that is currently being read.
    /// The first subimage (or the only subimage, if there is just one)
    /// is number 0.
    virtual int current_subimage (void) const { return 0; }

    /// Returns the index of the MIPmap image that is currently being read.
    /// The highest-res MIP level (or the only level, if there is just
    /// one) is number 0.
    virtual int current_miplevel (void) const { return 0; }

    /// Seek to the given subimage and MIP-map level within the open
    /// image file.  The first subimage of the file has index 0, the
    /// highest-resolution MIP level has index 0.  Return true on
    /// success, false on failure (including that there is not a
    /// subimage or MIP level with the specified index).  The new
    /// subimage's vital statistics are put in newspec (and also saved
    /// in this->spec).  The reader is expected to give the appearance
    /// of random access to subimages and MIP levels -- in other words,
    /// if it can't randomly seek to the given subimage/level, it should
    /// transparently close, reopen, and sequentially read through prior
    /// subimages and levels.
    virtual bool seek_subimage (int subimage, int miplevel,
                                ImageSpec &newspec) {
        if (subimage == current_subimage() && miplevel == current_miplevel()) {
            newspec = spec();
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    /// Seek to the given subimage -- backwards-compatible call that
    /// doesn't worry about MIP-map levels at all.
    bool seek_subimage (int subimage, ImageSpec &newspec) {
        return seek_subimage (subimage, 0 /* miplevel */, newspec);
    }

    /// Read the scanline that includes pixels (*,y,z) into data,
    /// converting if necessary from the native data format of the file
    /// into the 'format' specified (z==0 for non-volume images).  The
    /// stride value gives the data spacing of adjacent pixels (in
    /// bytes).  Strides set to AutoStride imply 'contiguous' data, i.e.,
    ///     xstride == spec.nchannels*format.size()
    /// If format is TypeDesc::UNKNOWN, then rather than converting to
    /// format, it will just copy pixels in the file's native data layout
    /// (including, possibly, per-channel data formats).
    /// The reader is expected to give the appearance of random access --
    /// in other words, if it can't randomly seek to the given scanline,
    /// it should transparently close, reopen, and sequentially read
    /// through prior scanlines.  The base ImageInput class has a
    /// default implementation that calls read_native_scanline and then
    /// does appropriate format conversion, so there's no reason for
    /// each format plugin to override this method.
    virtual bool read_scanline (int y, int z, TypeDesc format, void *data,
                                stride_t xstride=AutoStride);

    ///
    /// Simple read_scanline reads to contiguous float pixels.
    bool read_scanline (int y, int z, float *data) {
        return read_scanline (y, z, TypeDesc::FLOAT, data);
    }

    /// Read multiple scanlines that include pixels (*,y,z) for all
    /// ybegin <= y < yend, into data, using the strides given and
    /// converting to the requested data format (unless format is
    /// TypeDesc::UNKNOWN, in which case pixels will be copied in the
    /// native data layout, including per-channel data formats).  This
    /// is analogous to read_scanline except that it may be used to read
    /// more than one scanline at a time (which, for some formats, may
    /// be able to be done much more efficiently or in parallel).
    virtual bool read_scanlines (int ybegin, int yend, int z,
                                 TypeDesc format, void *data,
                                 stride_t xstride=AutoStride,
                                 stride_t ystride=AutoStride);

    /// Read multiple scanlines that include pixels (*,y,z) for all
    /// ybegin <= y < yend, into data, using the strides given and
    /// converting to the requested data format (unless format is
    /// TypeDesc::UNKNOWN, in which case pixels will be copied in the
    /// native data layout, including per-channel data formats).  Only
    /// channels [chbegin,chend) will be read/copied (chbegin=0,
    /// chend=spec.nchannels reads all channels, yielding equivalent
    /// behavior to the simpler variant of read_scanlines).
    virtual bool read_scanlines (int ybegin, int yend, int z,
                                 int chbegin, int chend,
                                 TypeDesc format, void *data,
                                 stride_t xstride=AutoStride,
                                 stride_t ystride=AutoStride);

    /// Read the tile whose upper-left origin is (x,y,z) into data,
    /// converting if necessary from the native data format of the file
    /// into the 'format' specified. (z==0 for non-volume images.) The
    /// stride values give the data spacing of adjacent pixels, scanlines,
    /// and volumetric slices (measured in bytes). Strides set to AutoStride
    /// imply 'contiguous' data in the shape of a full tile, i.e.,
    ///     xstride == spec.nchannels*format.size()
    ///     ystride == xstride*spec.tile_width
    ///     zstride == ystride*spec.tile_height
    /// If format is TypeDesc::UNKNOWN, then rather than converting to
    /// format, it will just copy pixels in the file's native data layout
    /// (including, possibly, per-channel data formats).
    /// The reader is expected to give the appearance of random access
    /// -- in other words, if it can't randomly seek to the given tile,
    /// it should transparently close, reopen, and sequentially read
    /// through prior tiles.  The base ImageInput class has a default
    /// implementation that calls read_native_tile and then does
    /// appropriate format conversion, so there's no reason for each
    /// format plugin to override this method.
    virtual bool read_tile (int x, int y, int z, TypeDesc format,
                            void *data, stride_t xstride=AutoStride,
                            stride_t ystride=AutoStride,
                            stride_t zstride=AutoStride);

    ///
    /// Simple read_tile reads to contiguous float pixels.
    bool read_tile (int x, int y, int z, float *data) {
        return read_tile (x, y, z, TypeDesc::FLOAT, data,
                          AutoStride, AutoStride, AutoStride);
    }

    /// Read the block of multiple tiles that include all pixels in
    /// [xbegin,xend) X [ybegin,yend) X [zbegin,zend), into data, using
    /// the strides given and converting to the requested data format
    /// (unless format is TypeDesc::UNKNOWN, in which case pixels will
    /// be copied in the native data layout, including per-channel data
    /// formats).  This is analogous to read_tile except that it may be
    /// used to read more than one tile at a time (which, for some
    /// formats, may be able to be done much more efficiently or in
    /// parallel).  The begin/end pairs must correctly delineate tile
    /// boundaries, with the exception that it may also be the end of
    /// the image data if the image resolution is not a whole multiple
    /// of the tile size.
    /// The stride values give the data spacing of adjacent pixels,
    /// scanlines, and volumetric slices (measured in bytes). Strides set to
    /// AutoStride imply 'contiguous' data in the shape of the [begin,end)
    /// region, i.e.,
    ///     xstride == spec.nchannels*format.size()
    ///     ystride == xstride * (xend-xbegin)
    ///     zstride == ystride * (yend-ybegin)
    virtual bool read_tiles (int xbegin, int xend, int ybegin, int yend,
                             int zbegin, int zend, TypeDesc format,
                             void *data, stride_t xstride=AutoStride,
                             stride_t ystride=AutoStride,
                             stride_t zstride=AutoStride);

    /// Read the block of multiple tiles that include all pixels in
    /// [xbegin,xend) X [ybegin,yend) X [zbegin,zend), into data, using
    /// the strides given and converting to the requested data format
    /// (unless format is TypeDesc::UNKNOWN, in which case pixels will
    /// be copied in the native data layout, including per-channel data
    /// formats).  Only channels [chbegin,chend) will be read/copied
    /// (chbegin=0, chend=spec.nchannels reads all channels, yielding
    /// equivalent behavior to the simpler variant of read_tiles).
    virtual bool read_tiles (int xbegin, int xend, int ybegin, int yend,
                             int zbegin, int zend, 
                             int chbegin, int chend, TypeDesc format,
                             void *data, stride_t xstride=AutoStride,
                             stride_t ystride=AutoStride,
                             stride_t zstride=AutoStride);

    /// Read the entire image of spec.width x spec.height x spec.depth
    /// pixels into data (which must already be sized large enough for
    /// the entire image) with the given strides and in the desired
    /// format.  Read tiles or scanlines automatically.  Strides set to
    /// AutoStride imply 'contiguous' data, i.e.,
    ///     xstride == spec.nchannels*format.size()
    ///     ystride == xstride*spec.width
    ///     zstride == ystride*spec.height
    /// If format is TypeDesc::UNKNOWN, then rather than converting to
    /// format, it will just copy pixels in the file's native data layout
    /// (including, possibly, per-channel data formats).
    /// Because this may be an expensive operation, a progress callback
    /// may be passed.  Periodically, it will be called as follows:
    ///     progress_callback (progress_callback_data, float done)
    /// where 'done' gives the portion of the image
    virtual bool read_image (TypeDesc format, void *data,
                             stride_t xstride=AutoStride,
                             stride_t ystride=AutoStride,
                             stride_t zstride=AutoStride,
                             ProgressCallback progress_callback=NULL,
                             void *progress_callback_data=NULL);

    /// Read the entire image of spec.width x spec.height x spec.depth
    /// pixels into data (which must already be sized large enough for
    /// the entire image) with the given strides and in the desired
    /// format.  Read tiles or scanlines automatically. Only channels
    /// [chbegin,chend) will be read/copied (chbegin=0, chend=spec.nchannels
    /// reads all channels, yielding equivalent behavior to the simpler
    /// variant of read_image).
    virtual bool read_image (int chbegin, int chend,
                             TypeDesc format, void *data,
                             stride_t xstride=AutoStride,
                             stride_t ystride=AutoStride,
                             stride_t zstride=AutoStride,
                             ProgressCallback progress_callback=NULL,
                             void *progress_callback_data=NULL);

    ///
    /// Simple read_image reads to contiguous float pixels.
    bool read_image (float *data) {
        return read_image (TypeDesc::FLOAT, data);
    }


    /// read_native_scanline is just like read_scanline, except that it
    /// keeps the data in the native format of the disk file and always
    /// reads into contiguous memory (no strides).  It's up to the user to
    /// have enough space allocated and know what to do with the data.
    /// IT IS EXPECTED THAT EACH FORMAT PLUGIN WILL OVERRIDE THIS METHOD.
    virtual bool read_native_scanline (int y, int z, void *data) = 0;

    /// read_native_scanlines is just like read_scanlines, except that
    /// it keeps the data in the native format of the disk file and
    /// always reads into contiguous memory (no strides).  It's up to
    /// the user to have enough space allocated and know what to do with
    /// the data.  If a format reader subclass does not override this
    /// method, the default implementation it will simply be a loop
    /// calling read_native_scanline for each scanline.
    virtual bool read_native_scanlines (int ybegin, int yend, int z,
                                        void *data);

    /// A variant of read_native_scanlines that reads only channels
    /// [chbegin,chend).  If a format reader subclass does
    /// not override this method, the default implementation will simply
    /// call the all-channel version of read_native_scanlines into a
    /// temporary buffer and copy the subset of channels.
    virtual bool read_native_scanlines (int ybegin, int yend, int z,
                                        int chbegin, int chend, void *data);

    /// read_native_tile is just like read_tile, except that it
    /// keeps the data in the native format of the disk file and always
    /// read into contiguous memory (no strides).  It's up to the user to
    /// have enough space allocated and know what to do with the data.
    /// IT IS EXPECTED THAT EACH FORMAT PLUGIN WILL OVERRIDE THIS METHOD
    /// IF IT SUPPORTS TILED IMAGES.
    virtual bool read_native_tile (int x, int y, int z, void *data);

    /// read_native_tiles is just like read_tiles, except that it keeps
    /// the data in the native format of the disk file and always reads
    /// into contiguous memory (no strides).  It's up to the caller to
    /// have enough space allocated and know what to do with the data.
    /// If a format reader does not override this method, the default
    /// implementation it will simply be a loop calling read_native_tile
    /// for each tile in the block.
    virtual bool read_native_tiles (int xbegin, int xend, int ybegin, int yend,
                                    int zbegin, int zend, void *data);

    /// A variant of read_native_tiles that reads only channels
    /// [chbegin,chend).  If a format reader subclass does
    /// not override this method, the default implementation will simply
    /// call the all-channel version of read_native_tiles into a
    /// temporary buffer and copy the subset of channels.
    virtual bool read_native_tiles (int xbegin, int xend, int ybegin, int yend,
                                    int zbegin, int zend,
                                    int chbegin, int chend, void *data);

    /// Read native deep data from multiple scanlines that include
    /// pixels (*,y,z) for all ybegin <= y < yend, into deepdata.  Only
    /// channels [chbegin, chend) will be read (chbegin=0,
    /// chend=spec.nchannels reads all channels).
    virtual bool read_native_deep_scanlines (int ybegin, int yend, int z,
                                             int chbegin, int chend,
                                             DeepData &deepdata);

    /// Read the block of multiple native deep data tiles that include
    /// all pixels in [xbegin,xend) X [ybegin,yend) X [zbegin,zend),
    /// into deepdata.  Only channels [chbegin,chend) will
    /// be read (chbegin=0, chend=spec.nchannels reads all channels).
    virtual bool read_native_deep_tiles (int xbegin, int xend,
                                         int ybegin, int yend,
                                         int zbegin, int zend,
                                         int chbegin, int chend,
                                         DeepData &deepdata);

    /// Read the entire deep data image of spec.width x spec.height x
    /// spec.depth pixels, all channels, into deepdata.
    virtual bool read_native_deep_image (DeepData &deepdata);


    /// General message passing between client and image input server
    ///
    virtual int send_to_input (const char *format, ...);
    int send_to_client (const char *format, ...);

    /// If any of the API routines returned false indicating an error,
    /// this routine will return the error string (and clear any error
    /// flags).  If no error has occurred since the last time geterror()
    /// was called, it will return an empty string.
    std::string geterror () const {
        std::string e = m_errmessage;
        m_errmessage.clear ();
        return e;
    }

    /// An ImageInput::Creator is a function that creates and returns an
    /// ImageInput.  Once invoked, the resulting ImageInput is owned by
    /// the caller, who is responsible for deleting it when done with it.
    typedef ImageInput* (*Creator)();

    /// Error reporting for the plugin implementation: call this with
    /// printf-like arguments.  Note however that this is fully typesafe!
    // void error (const char *format, ...) const;
    TINYFORMAT_WRAP_FORMAT (void, error, const,
        std::ostringstream msg;, msg, append_error(msg.str());)

    /// Set the current thread-spawning policy: the maximum number of
    /// threads that may be spawned by ImageInput internals. A value of 1
    /// means all work will be done by the calling thread; 0 means to use
    /// the global OIIO::attribute("threads") value.
    void threads (int n) { m_threads = n; }

    /// Retrieve the current thread-spawning policy.
    int threads () const { return m_threads; }

protected:
    ImageSpec m_spec;  // format spec of the current open subimage/MIPlevel

private:
    mutable std::string m_errmessage;  // private storage of error message
    int m_threads;    // Thread policy
    void append_error (const std::string& message) const; // add to m_errmessage
    static ImageInput *create (const std::string &filename, bool do_open,
                               const std::string &plugin_searchpath);

};




/// ImageOutput abstracts the writing of an image file in a file
/// format-agnostic manner.
class OIIO_API ImageOutput {
public:
    /// Create an ImageOutput that will write to a file, with the format
    /// inferred from the extension of the name.  The plugin_searchpath
    /// parameter is a colon-separated list of directories to search for
    /// ImageIO plugin DSO/DLL's.  This just creates the ImageOutput, it
    /// does not open the file.
    static ImageOutput *create (const std::string &filename,
                                const std::string &plugin_searchpath="");

    /// Destroy an ImageOutput that was created using ImageOutput::create().
    /// For some systems (Windows, I'm looking at you), it is not
    /// necessarily safe to allocate memory in one DLL and free it in
    /// another, so directly calling 'delete' on an ImageOutput allocated by
    /// create() may be unusafe, but passing it to destroy() should be safe.
    static void destroy (ImageOutput *x);

    ImageOutput ();
    virtual ~ImageOutput ();

    /// Return the name of the format implemented by this class.
    ///
    virtual const char *format_name (void) const = 0;

    // Overrride these functions in your derived output class
    // to inform the client which formats are supported

    /// Given the name of a 'feature', return whether this ImageOutput
    /// supports output of images with the given properties. Most queries
    /// will simply return 0 for "doesn't support" and nonzero for "supports
    /// it", but it is acceptable to have queries return other nonzero
    /// integers to indicate varying degrees of support or limits (but
    /// should be clearly documented as such).
    ///
    /// Feature names that ImageIO plugins are expected to recognize
    /// include:
    ///    "tiles"          Is this format able to write tiled images?
    ///    "rectangles"     Does this plugin accept arbitrary rectangular
    ///                       pixel regions, not necessarily aligned to
    ///                       scanlines or tiles?
    ///    "random_access"  May tiles or scanlines be written in
    ///                       any order (false indicates that they MUST
    ///                       be in successive order).
    ///    "multiimage"     Does this format support multiple subimages
    ///                       within a file?
    ///    "appendsubimage" Does this format support adding subimages one at
    ///                       a time through open(name,spec,AppendSubimage)?
    ///                       If not, then open(name,subimages,specs) must
    ///                       be used instead.
    ///    "mipmap"         Does this format support multiple resolutions
    ///                       for an image/subimage?
    ///    "volumes"        Does this format support "3D" pixel arrays?
    ///    "alpha"          Can this format support an alpha channel?
    ///    "nchannels"      Can this format support arbitrary number of
    ///                        channels (beyond RGBA)?
    ///    "rewrite"        May the same scanline or tile be sent more than
    ///                       once?  (Generally, this will be true for
    ///                       plugins that implement interactive display.)
    ///    "empty"          Does this plugin support passing a NULL data
    ///                       pointer to write_scanline or write_tile to
    ///                       indicate that the entire data block is zero?
    ///    "channelformats" Does the plugin/format support per-channel
    ///                       data formats?
    ///    "displaywindow"  Does the format support display ("full") windows
    ///                        distinct from the pixel data window?
    ///    "origin"         Does the format support a nonzero x,y,z
    ///                        origin of the pixel data window?
    ///    "negativeorigin" Does the format support negative x,y,z
    ///                        and full_{x,y,z} origin values?
    ///    "deepdata"       Deep (multi-sample per pixel) data
    ///    "arbitrary_metadata" Does this format allow metadata with
    ///                        arbitrary names and types?
    ///    "exif"           Can this format store Exif camera data?
    ///    "iptc"           Can this format store IPTC data?
    ///
    /// Note that main advantage of this approach, versus having
    /// separate individual supports_foo() methods, is that this allows
    /// future expansion of the set of possible queries without changing
    /// the API, adding new entry points, or breaking linkage
    /// compatibility.
    virtual int supports (string_view feature) const { return false; }

    enum OpenMode { Create, AppendSubimage, AppendMIPLevel };

    /// Open the file with given name, with resolution and other format
    /// data as given in newspec.  Open returns true for success, false
    /// for failure.  Note that it is legal to call open multiple times
    /// on the same file without a call to close(), if it supports
    /// multiimage and mode is AppendSubimage, or if it supports
    /// MIP-maps and mode is AppendMIPLevel -- this is interpreted as
    /// appending a subimage, or a MIP level to the current subimage,
    /// respectively.
    virtual bool open (const std::string &name, const ImageSpec &newspec,
                       OpenMode mode=Create) = 0;

    /// Open the file with given name, expecting to have a given total
    /// number of subimages, described by specs[0..subimages-1].  
    /// Return true for success, false for failure.  Upon success, the
    /// first subimage will be open and ready for transmission of
    /// pixels.  Subsequent subimages will be denoted with the usual
    /// call of open(name,spec,AppendSubimage) (and MIP levels by
    /// open(name,spec,AppendMIPLevel)).
    ///
    /// The purpose of this call is to accommodate format-writing
    /// libraries that fmust know the number and specifications of the
    /// subimages upon first opening the file; such formats can be
    /// detected by
    ///     supports("multiimage") && !supports("appendsubimage")
    /// The individual specs passed to the appending open() calls for
    /// subsequent subimages MUST match the ones originally passed.
    virtual bool open (const std::string &name, int subimages,
                       const ImageSpec *specs) {
        // Default implementation: just a regular open, assume that
        // appending will work.
        return open (name, specs[0]);
    }

    /// Return a reference to the image format specification of the
    /// current subimage.  Note that the contents of the spec are
    /// invalid before open() or after close().
    const ImageSpec &spec (void) const { return m_spec; }

    /// Close an image that we are totally done with.  This should leave
    /// the plugin in a state where it could open a new file safely,
    /// without having to destroy the writer.
    virtual bool close () = 0;

    /// Write a full scanline that includes pixels (*,y,z).  (z is
    /// ignored for 2D non-volume images.)  The stride value gives the
    /// distance between successive pixels (in bytes).  Strides set to
    /// AutoStride imply 'contiguous' data, i.e.,
    ///     xstride == spec.nchannels*format.size()
    /// The data are automatically converted from 'format' to the actual
    /// output format (as specified to open()) by this method.  
    /// If format is TypeDesc::UNKNOWN, then rather than converting from
    /// format, it will just copy pixels in the file's native data layout
    /// (including, possibly, per-channel data formats).
    /// Return true for success, false for failure.  It is a failure to
    /// call write_scanline with an out-of-order scanline if this format
    /// driver does not support random access.
    virtual bool write_scanline (int y, int z, TypeDesc format,
                                 const void *data, stride_t xstride=AutoStride);

    /// Write multiple scanlines that include pixels (*,y,z) for all
    /// ybegin <= y < yend, from data.  This is analogous to
    /// write_scanline except that it may be used to write more than one
    /// scanline at a time (which, for some formats, may be able to be
    /// done much more efficiently or in parallel).
    virtual bool write_scanlines (int ybegin, int yend, int z,
                                  TypeDesc format, const void *data,
                                  stride_t xstride=AutoStride,
                                  stride_t ystride=AutoStride);

    /// Write the tile with (x,y,z) as the upper left corner.  (z is
    /// ignored for 2D non-volume images.)  The three stride values give
    /// the distance (in bytes) between successive pixels, scanlines,
    /// and volumetric slices, respectively.  Strides set to AutoStride
    /// imply 'contiguous' data in the shape of a full tile, i.e.,

    ///     xstride == spec.nchannels*format.size()
    ///     ystride == xstride*spec.tile_width
    ///     zstride == ystride*spec.tile_height
    /// The data are automatically converted from 'format' to the actual
    /// output format (as specified to open()) by this method.  
    /// If format is TypeDesc::UNKNOWN, then rather than converting from
    /// format, it will just copy pixels in the file's native data layout
    /// (including, possibly, per-channel data formats).
    /// Return true for success, false for failure.  It is a failure to
    /// call write_tile with an out-of-order tile if this format driver
    /// does not support random access.
    virtual bool write_tile (int x, int y, int z, TypeDesc format,
                             const void *data, stride_t xstride=AutoStride,
                             stride_t ystride=AutoStride,
                             stride_t zstride=AutoStride);

    /// Write the block of multiple tiles that include all pixels in
    /// [xbegin,xend) X [ybegin,yend) X [zbegin,zend).  This is analogous to
    /// write_tile except that it may be used to write more than one tile at
    /// a time (which, for some formats, may be able to be done much more
    /// efficiently or in parallel).
    /// The begin/end pairs must correctly delineate tile boundaries, with
    /// the exception that it may also be the end of the image data if the
    /// image resolution is not a whole multiple of the tile size.
    /// The stride values give the data spacing of adjacent pixels,
    /// scanlines, and volumetric slices (measured in bytes). Strides set to
    /// AutoStride imply 'contiguous' data in the shape of the [begin,end)
    /// region, i.e.,
    ///     xstride == spec.nchannels*format.size()
    ///     ystride == xstride * (xend-xbegin)
    ///     zstride == ystride * (yend-ybegin)
    virtual bool write_tiles (int xbegin, int xend, int ybegin, int yend,
                              int zbegin, int zend, TypeDesc format,
                              const void *data, stride_t xstride=AutoStride,
                              stride_t ystride=AutoStride,
                              stride_t zstride=AutoStride);

    /// Write a rectangle of pixels given by the range
    ///   [xbegin,xend) X [ybegin,yend) X [zbegin,zend)
    /// The stride values give the data spacing of adjacent pixels,
    /// scanlines, and volumetric slices (measured in bytes). Strides set to
    /// AutoStride imply 'contiguous' data in the shape of the [begin,end)
    /// region, i.e.,
    ///     xstride == spec.nchannels*format.size()
    ///     ystride == xstride * (xend-xbegin)
    ///     zstride == ystride * (yend-ybegin)
    /// The data are automatically converted from 'format' to the actual
    /// output format (as specified to open()) by this method.  If
    /// format is TypeDesc::UNKNOWN, it will just copy pixels assuming
    /// they are already in the file's native data layout (including,
    /// possibly, per-channel data formats).
    ///
    /// Return true for success, false for failure.  It is a failure to
    /// call write_rectangle for a format plugin that does not return
    /// true for supports("rectangles").
    virtual bool write_rectangle (int xbegin, int xend, int ybegin, int yend,
                                  int zbegin, int zend, TypeDesc format,
                                  const void *data, stride_t xstride=AutoStride,
                                  stride_t ystride=AutoStride,
                                  stride_t zstride=AutoStride);

    /// Write the entire image of spec.width x spec.height x spec.depth
    /// pixels, with the given strides and in the desired format.
    /// Strides set to AutoStride imply 'contiguous' data, i.e.,
    ///     xstride == spec.nchannels*format.size()
    ///     ystride == xstride*spec.width
    ///     zstride == ystride*spec.height
    /// Depending on spec, write either all tiles or all scanlines.
    /// Assume that data points to a layout in row-major order.
    /// If format is TypeDesc::UNKNOWN, then rather than converting from
    /// format, it will just copy pixels in the file's native data layout
    /// (including, possibly, per-channel data formats).
    /// Because this may be an expensive operation, a progress callback
    /// may be passed.  Periodically, it will be called as follows:
    ///   progress_callback (progress_callback_data, float done)
    /// where 'done' gives the portion of the image
    virtual bool write_image (TypeDesc format, const void *data,
                              stride_t xstride=AutoStride,
                              stride_t ystride=AutoStride,
                              stride_t zstride=AutoStride,
                              ProgressCallback progress_callback=NULL,
                              void *progress_callback_data=NULL);

    /// Write deep scanlines containing pixels (*,y,z), for all y in
    /// [ybegin,yend), to a deep file.
    virtual bool write_deep_scanlines (int ybegin, int yend, int z,
                                       const DeepData &deepdata);

    /// Write the block of deep tiles that include all pixels in
    /// [xbegin,xend) X [ybegin,yend) X [zbegin,zend).  
    /// The begin/end pairs must correctly delineate tile boundaries,
    /// with the exception that it may also be the end of the image data
    /// if the image resolution is not a whole multiple of the tile size.
    virtual bool write_deep_tiles (int xbegin, int xend, int ybegin, int yend,
                                   int zbegin, int zend,
                                   const DeepData &deepdata);

    /// Write the entire deep image denoted by data.
    virtual bool write_deep_image (const DeepData &deepdata);

    /// Read the current subimage of 'in', and write it as the next
    /// subimage of *this, in a way that is efficient and does not alter
    /// pixel values, if at all possible.  Both in and this must be a
    /// properly-opened ImageInput and ImageOutput, respectively, and
    /// their current images must match in size and number of channels.
    /// Return true if it works ok, false if for some reason the
    /// operation wasn't possible.
    ///
    /// If a particular ImageOutput implementation does not supply a
    /// copy_image method, it will inherit the default implementation,
    /// which is to simply read scanlines or tiles from 'in' and write
    /// them to *this.  However, some ImageIO implementations may have a
    /// special technique for directly copying raw pixel data from the
    /// input to the output, when both input and output are the SAME
    /// file type and the same data format.  This can be more efficient
    /// than in->read_image followed by out->write_image, and avoids any
    /// unintended pixel alterations, especially for formats that use
    /// lossy compression.
    virtual bool copy_image (ImageInput *in);

    /// General message passing between client and image output server
    ///
    virtual int send_to_output (const char *format, ...);
    int send_to_client (const char *format, ...);

    /// If any of the API routines returned false indicating an error,
    /// this routine will return the error string (and clear any error
    /// flags).  If no error has occurred since the last time geterror()
    /// was called, it will return an empty string.
    std::string geterror () const {
        std::string e = m_errmessage;
        m_errmessage.clear ();
        return e;
    }

    /// An ImageOutput::Creator is a function that creates and returns an
    /// ImageOutput.  Once invoked, the resulting ImageOutput is owned by
    /// the caller, who is responsible for deleting it when done with it.
    typedef ImageOutput* (*Creator)();

    /// Error reporting for the plugin implementation: call this with
    /// printf-like arguments.  Note however that this is fully typesafe!
    /// void error (const char *format, ...)
    TINYFORMAT_WRAP_FORMAT (void, error, const,
        std::ostringstream msg;, msg, append_error(msg.str());)

    /// Set the current thread-spawning policy: the maximum number of
    /// threads that may be spawned by ImageOutput internals. A value of 1
    /// means all work will be done by the calling thread; 0 means to use
    /// the global OIIO::attribute("threads") value.
    void threads (int n) { m_threads = n; }

    /// Retrieve the current thread-spawning policy.
    int threads () const { return m_threads; }

protected:
    /// Helper routines used by write_* implementations: convert data (in
    /// the given format and stride) to the "native" format of the file
    /// (described by the 'spec' member variable), in contiguous order. This
    /// requires a scratch space to be passed in so that there are no memory
    /// leaks.  Returns a pointer to the native data, which may be the
    /// original data if it was already in native format and contiguous, or
    /// it may point to the scratch space if it needed to make a copy or do
    /// conversions. For float->uint8 conversions only, if dither is
    /// nonzero, random dither will be added to reduce quantization banding
    /// artifacts; in this case, the specific nonzero dither value is used
    /// as a seed for the hash function that produces the per-pixel dither
    /// amounts, and the optional [xyz]origin parameters help it to align
    /// the pixels to the right position in the dither pattern.
    const void *to_native_scanline (TypeDesc format,
                                    const void *data, stride_t xstride,
                                    std::vector<unsigned char> &scratch,
                                    unsigned int dither=0,
                                    int yorigin=0, int zorigin=0);
    const void *to_native_tile (TypeDesc format, const void *data,
                                stride_t xstride, stride_t ystride,
                                stride_t zstride,
                                std::vector<unsigned char> &scratch,
                                unsigned int dither=0,
                                int xorigin=0, int yorigin=0, int zorigin=0);
    const void *to_native_rectangle (int xbegin, int xend, int ybegin, int yend,
                                     int zbegin, int zend,
                                     TypeDesc format, const void *data,
                                     stride_t xstride, stride_t ystride,
                                     stride_t zstride,
                                     std::vector<unsigned char> &scratch,
                                     unsigned int dither=0,
                                     int xorigin=0, int yorigin=0, int zorigin=0);

    /// Helper function to copy a rectangle of data into the right spot in
    /// an image-sized buffer. In addition to copying to the right place,
    /// this handles data format conversion and dither (if the spec's
    /// "oiio:dither" is nonzero, and if it's converting from a float-like
    /// type to UINT8). The buf_format describes the type of image_buffer,
    /// if it's TypeDesc::UNKNOWN it will be assumed to be spec.format.
    bool copy_to_image_buffer (int xbegin, int xend, int ybegin, int yend,
                               int zbegin, int zend, TypeDesc format,
                               const void *data, stride_t xstride,
                               stride_t ystride, stride_t zstride,
                               void *image_buffer,
                               TypeDesc buf_format = TypeDesc::UNKNOWN);
    /// Helper function to copy a tile of data into the right spot in an
    /// image-sized buffer. This is really just a wrapper for
    /// copy_to_image_buffer, passing all the right parameters to copy
    /// exactly one tile.
    bool copy_tile_to_image_buffer (int x, int y, int z, TypeDesc format,
                                    const void *data, stride_t xstride,
                                    stride_t ystride, stride_t zstride,
                                    void *image_buffer,
                                    TypeDesc buf_format = TypeDesc::UNKNOWN);

protected:
    ImageSpec m_spec;           ///< format spec of the currently open image

private:
    void append_error (const std::string& message) const; // add to m_errmessage
    mutable std::string m_errmessage;   ///< private storage of error message
    int m_threads;    // Thread policy
};



// Utility functions

/// Retrieve the version of OpenImageIO for the library.  This is so
/// plugins can query to be sure they are linked against an adequate
/// version of the library.
OIIO_API int openimageio_version ();

/// Special geterror() called after ImageInput::create or
/// ImageOutput::create, since if create fails, there's no object on
/// which call obj->geterror().  This function returns the last error
/// for this particular thread; separate threads will not clobber each
/// other's global error messages.
OIIO_API std::string geterror ();

/// Set a global attribute controlling OpenImageIO.  Return true
/// if the name and type were recognized and the attribute was set.
///
/// Documented attributes:
///     int threads
///             How many threads to use for operations that can be sped
///             by spawning threads (default=0, meaning to use the full
///             available hardware concurrency detected).
///     int exr_threads
///             The size of the internal OpenEXR thread pool. The default
///             is to use the full available hardware concurrency detected.
///             Default is 0 meaning to use full available hardware
///             concurrency detected, -1 means to disable usage of the OpenEXR
///             thread pool and execute everything in the caller thread.
///     string plugin_searchpath
///             Colon-separated list of directories to search for 
///             dynamically-loaded format plugins.
///     string format_list     (for 'getattribute' only, cannot set)
///             Comma-separated list of all format names supported
///             or for which plugins could be found.
///     string extension_list   (for 'getattribute' only, cannot set)
///             For each format, the format name followed by a colon,
///             followed by comma-separated list of all extensions that
///             are presumed to be used for that format.  Semicolons
///             separate the lists for formats.  For example,
///                "tiff:tif;jpeg:jpg,jpeg;openexr:exr"
///     int read_chunk
///             The number of scanlines that will be attempted to read at
///             once for read_image calls (default: 256).
///     int debug
///             When nonzero, various debug messages may be printed.
///             The default is 0 for release builds, 1 for DEBUG builds,
///             but also may be overridden by the OPENIMAGEIO_DEBUG env
///             variable.
OIIO_API bool attribute (string_view name, TypeDesc type, const void *val);
// Shortcuts for common types
inline bool attribute (string_view name, int val) {
    return attribute (name, TypeDesc::TypeInt, &val);
}
inline bool attribute (string_view name, float val) {
    return attribute (name, TypeDesc::TypeFloat, &val);
}
inline bool attribute (string_view name, string_view val) {
    const char *s = val.c_str();
    return attribute (name, TypeDesc::TypeString, &s);
}

/// Get the named global attribute of OpenImageIO, store it in *val.
/// Return true if found and it was compatible with the type specified,
/// otherwise return false and do not modify the contents of *val.  It
/// is up to the caller to ensure that val points to the right kind and
/// size of storage for the given type.
OIIO_API bool getattribute (string_view name, TypeDesc type, void *val);
// Shortcuts for common types
inline bool getattribute (string_view name, int &val) {
    return getattribute (name, TypeDesc::TypeInt, &val);
}
inline bool getattribute (string_view name, float &val) {
    return getattribute (name, TypeDesc::TypeFloat, &val);
}
inline bool getattribute (string_view name, char **val) {
    return getattribute (name, TypeDesc::TypeString, val);
}
inline bool getattribute (string_view name, std::string &val) {
    ustring s;
    bool ok = getattribute (name, TypeDesc::TypeString, &s);
    if (ok)
        val = s.string();
    return ok;
}
inline int get_int_attribute (string_view name, int defaultval=0) {
    int val;
    return getattribute (name, TypeDesc::TypeInt, &val) ? val : defaultval;
}
inline float get_float_attribute (string_view name, float defaultval=0) {
    float val;
    return getattribute (name, TypeDesc::TypeFloat, &val) ? val : defaultval;
}
inline string_view get_string_attribute (string_view name,
                                 string_view defaultval = string_view()) {
    ustring val;
    return getattribute (name, TypeDesc::TypeString, &val) ? string_view(val) : defaultval;
}


/// Register the input and output 'create' routines and list of file
/// extensions for a particular format.
OIIO_API void declare_imageio_format (const std::string &format_name,
                                      ImageInput::Creator input_creator,
                                      const char **input_extensions,
                                      ImageOutput::Creator output_creator,
                                      const char **output_extensions);


/// Helper function: convert contiguous arbitrary data between two
/// arbitrary types (specified by TypeDesc's)
/// Return true if ok, false if it didn't know how to do the
/// conversion.  If dst_type is UNKNOWN, it will be assumed to be the
/// same as src_type.
OIIO_API bool convert_types (TypeDesc src_type, const void *src,
                              TypeDesc dst_type, void *dst, int n);

/// DEPRECATED(1.4) -- for some reason we had a convert_types that took
/// alpha_channel and z_channel parameters, but never did anything
/// with them.
OIIO_API bool convert_types (TypeDesc src_type, const void *src,
                             TypeDesc dst_type, void *dst, int n,
                             int alpha_channel, int z_channel = -1);

/// Helper routine for data conversion: Convert an image of nchannels x
/// width x height x depth from src to dst.  The src and dst may have
/// different data formats and layouts.  Clever use of this function can
/// not only exchange data among different formats (e.g., half to 8-bit
/// unsigned), but also can copy selective channels, copy subimages,
/// etc.  If you're lazy, it's ok to pass AutoStride for any of the
/// stride values, and they will be auto-computed assuming contiguous
/// data.  Return true if ok, false if it didn't know how to do the
/// conversion.
OIIO_API bool convert_image (int nchannels, int width, int height, int depth,
                             const void *src, TypeDesc src_type,
                             stride_t src_xstride, stride_t src_ystride,
                             stride_t src_zstride,
                             void *dst, TypeDesc dst_type,
                             stride_t dst_xstride, stride_t dst_ystride,
                             stride_t dst_zstride,
                             int alpha_channel = -1, int z_channel = -1);

/// A version of convert_image that will break up big jobs into multiple
/// threads.
OIIO_API bool parallel_convert_image (
               int nchannels, int width, int height, int depth,
               const void *src, TypeDesc src_type,
               stride_t src_xstride, stride_t src_ystride,
               stride_t src_zstride,
               void *dst, TypeDesc dst_type,
               stride_t dst_xstride, stride_t dst_ystride,
               stride_t dst_zstride,
               int alpha_channel=-1, int z_channel=-1, int nthreads=0);

/// Add random [-theramplitude,ditheramplitude] dither to the color channels
/// of the image.  Dither will not be added to the alpha or z channel.  The
/// image origin and dither seed values allow a reproducible (or variable)
/// dither pattern.  If the strides are set to AutoStride, they will be
/// assumed to be contiguous floats in data of the given dimensions.
OIIO_API void add_dither (int nchannels, int width, int height, int depth,
                          float *data,
                          stride_t xstride, stride_t ystride, stride_t zstride,
                          float ditheramplitude,
                          int alpha_channel = -1, int z_channel = -1,
                          unsigned int ditherseed = 1,
                          int chorigin=0, int xorigin=0,
                          int yorigin=0, int zorigin=0);

/// Convert unassociated to associated alpha by premultiplying all color
/// (non-alpha, non-z) channels by alpha.
OIIO_API void premult (int nchannels, int width, int height, int depth,
                       int chbegin, int chend,
                       TypeDesc datatype, void *data, stride_t xstride,
                       stride_t ystride, stride_t zstride,
                       int alpha_channel = -1, int z_channel = -1);

/// Helper routine for data conversion: Copy an image of nchannels x
/// width x height x depth from src to dst.  The src and dst may have
/// different data layouts, but must have the same data type.  Clever
/// use of this function can change layouts or strides, copy selective
/// channels, copy subimages, etc.  If you're lazy, it's ok to pass
/// AutoStride for any of the stride values, and they will be
/// auto-computed assuming contiguous data.  Return true if ok, false if
/// it didn't know how to do the conversion.
OIIO_API bool copy_image (int nchannels, int width, int height, int depth,
                          const void *src, stride_t pixelsize,
                          stride_t src_xstride, stride_t src_ystride,
                          stride_t src_zstride,
                          void *dst, stride_t dst_xstride,
                          stride_t dst_ystride, stride_t dst_zstride);

/// Decode a raw Exif data block and save all the metadata in an
/// ImageSpec.  Return true if all is ok, false if the exif block was
/// somehow malformed.  The binary data pointed to by 'exif' should
/// start with a TIFF directory header.
OIIO_API bool decode_exif (const void *exif, int length, ImageSpec &spec);

/// Construct an Exif data block from the ImageSpec, appending the Exif 
/// data as a big blob to the char vector.
OIIO_API void encode_exif (const ImageSpec &spec, std::vector<char> &blob);

/// Helper: For the given OIIO metadata attribute name, look up the Exif tag
/// ID, TIFFDataType (expressed as an int), and count. Return true and fill
/// in the fields if found, return false if not found.
OIIO_API bool exif_tag_lookup (string_view name, int &tag,
                               int &tifftype, int &count);

/// Add metadata to spec based on raw IPTC (International Press
/// Telecommunications Council) metadata in the form of an IIM
/// (Information Interchange Model).  Return true if all is ok, false if
/// the iptc block was somehow malformed.  This is a utility function to
/// make it easy for multiple format plugins to support embedding IPTC
/// metadata without having to duplicate functionality within each
/// plugin.  Note that IIM is actually considered obsolete and is
/// replaced by an XML scheme called XMP.
OIIO_API bool decode_iptc_iim (const void *iptc, int length, ImageSpec &spec);

/// Find all the IPTC-amenable metadata in spec and assemble it into an
/// IIM data block in iptc.  This is a utility function to make it easy
/// for multiple format plugins to support embedding IPTC metadata
/// without having to duplicate functionality within each plugin.  Note
/// that IIM is actually considered obsolete and is replaced by an XML
/// scheme called XMP.
OIIO_API void encode_iptc_iim (const ImageSpec &spec, std::vector<char> &iptc);

/// Add metadata to spec based on XMP data in an XML block.  Return true
/// if all is ok, false if the xml was somehow malformed.  This is a
/// utility function to make it easy for multiple format plugins to
/// support embedding XMP metadata without having to duplicate
/// functionality within each plugin.
OIIO_API bool decode_xmp (const std::string &xml, ImageSpec &spec);

/// Find all the relavant metadata (IPTC, Exif, etc.) in spec and
/// assemble it into an XMP XML string.  This is a utility function to
/// make it easy for multiple format plugins to support embedding XMP
/// metadata without having to duplicate functionality within each
/// plugin.  If 'minimal' is true, then don't encode things that would
/// be part of ordinary TIFF or exif tags.
OIIO_API std::string encode_xmp (const ImageSpec &spec, bool minimal=false);

// All the wrap_foo functions implement a wrap mode, wherein coord is
// altered to be origin <= coord < origin+width.  The return value
// indicates if the resulting wrapped value is valid (example, for
// wrap_black, values outside the region are invalid and do not modify
// the coord parameter).
OIIO_API bool wrap_black (int &coord, int origin, int width);
OIIO_API bool wrap_clamp (int &coord, int origin, int width);
OIIO_API bool wrap_periodic (int &coord, int origin, int width);
OIIO_API bool wrap_periodic_pow2 (int &coord, int origin, int width);
OIIO_API bool wrap_mirror (int &coord, int origin, int width);

// Typedef for the function signature of a wrap implementation.
typedef bool (*wrap_impl) (int &coord, int origin, int width);


namespace pvt {
// For internal use - use debugmsg() below for a nicer interface.
OIIO_API void debugmsg_ (string_view message);
};

/// debugmsg(format, ...) prints debugging message when attribute "debug" is
/// nonzero, which it is by default for DEBUG compiles or when the
/// environment variable OPENIMAGEIO_DEBUG is set. This is preferred to raw
/// output to stderr for debugging statements.
///   void debugmsg (const char *format, ...);
TINYFORMAT_WRAP_FORMAT (void, debugmsg, /**/,
                        std::ostringstream msg;, msg, pvt::debugmsg_(msg.str());)


// to force correct linkage on some systems
OIIO_API void _ImageIO_force_link ();

OIIO_NAMESPACE_END

#endif  // OPENIMAGEIO_IMAGEIO_H