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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * \file Streamable.h
+ */
+
+#ifndef tests_storePerfTools_common_Streamable_h_
+#define tests_storePerfTools_common_Streamable_h_
+
+#include <iostream>
+
+namespace tests {
+namespace storePerftools {
+namespace common {
+
+/**
+ * \brief Abstract class which provides the mechanisms to stream
+ *
+ * An abstract class which provides stream functions. The toStream() function must be implemented by subclasses,
+ * and is used by the remaining functions. For convenience, toString() returns a std::string object.
+ */
+class Streamable
+{
+public:
+    /**
+     * \brief Virtual destructor
+     */
+    virtual ~Streamable() {}
+
+    /***
+     * \brief Stream some representation of the object to an output stream
+     *
+     * \param os Output stream to which the class data is to be streamed
+     */
+    virtual void toStream(std::ostream& os = std::cout) const = 0;
+
+    /**
+     * \brief Creates a string representation of the test parameters
+     *
+     * Convenience feature which creates and returns a std::string object containing the content of toStream().
+     *
+     * \return Content of toStream()
+     */
+     std::string toString() const;
+
+    /**
+     * \brief Stream the object to an output stream
+     */
+    friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
+                                    const Streamable& s);
+
+    /**
+     * \brief Stream the object to an output stream through an object pointer
+     */
+    friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
+                                    const Streamable* sPtr);
+
+};
+
+}}} // namespace tests::storePerftools::common
+
+#endif // tests_storePerfTools_common_Streamable_h_