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+// Copyright (C) 2019 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+//
+// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+// License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+// file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
+#ifndef ELEMENT_VALUE_H
+#define ELEMENT_VALUE_H
+
+#include <asiolink/io_address.h>
+#include <cc/data.h>
+#include <string>
+
+namespace isc {
+namespace data {
+
+/// @brief Template class for converting a value encapsulated in the
+/// @c Element object into a simple type.
+///
+/// The @c Element object provides a set of accessors to retrieve
+/// values of different types it encapsulates. These methods
+/// however can't be always used in template methods and classes.
+///
+/// Consider a template function which returns a value of a type
+/// specified as template argument. In order to convert a value
+/// held in the @c Element object it would have to conditionally
+/// call this object's accessors to return the value of the
+/// appropriate type. This would however fail to compile because
+/// the compiler would check for all possible value types returned
+/// by the @c Element accessors and report an error for those that
+/// don't cast to the returned type.
+///
+/// This class provides a mechanism to extract the value of the
+/// appropriate type from the @c Element object within the
+/// template function. It comes with a number of class specializations
+/// for various data types to be returned. The default implementation
+/// calls @c Element::intValue and casts it to the returned type.
+/// There are class specializations for @c double, @c bool and
+/// @c string.
+///
+/// @tparam T Type of the value to be extracted.
+template<typename T>
+class ElementValue {
+public:
+
+    /// @brief Function operator extracting an @c Element value as
+    /// integer.
+    ///
+    /// @param el Element holding a value to be extracted.
+    T operator()(ConstElementPtr el) const {
+        return (static_cast<T>(el->intValue()));
+    }
+};
+
+/// @brief The @c ElementValue specialization for double.
+template<>
+class ElementValue<double> {
+public:
+
+    /// @brief Function operator extracting an @c Element value as
+    /// double.
+    ///
+    /// @param el Element holding a value to be extracted.
+    double operator()(ConstElementPtr el) const {
+        return (el->doubleValue());
+    }
+};
+
+/// @brief The @c ElementValue specialization for boolean.
+template<>
+class ElementValue<bool> {
+public:
+
+    /// @brief Function operator extracting an @c Element value as
+    /// boolean.
+    ///
+    /// @param el Element holding a value to be extracted.
+    bool operator()(ConstElementPtr el) const {
+        return (el->boolValue());
+    }
+
+};
+
+/// @brief The @c ElementValue specialization for string.
+template<>
+class ElementValue<std::string> {
+public:
+
+    /// @brief Function operator extracting an @c Element value as
+    /// string.
+    ///
+    /// @param el Element holding a value to be extracted.
+    std::string operator()(ConstElementPtr el) const {
+        return (el->stringValue());
+    }
+};
+
+/// @brief The @c ElementValue specialization for IOAddress.
+template<>
+class ElementValue<asiolink::IOAddress> {
+public:
+
+    /// @brief Function operator extracting an @c Element value as
+    /// IOAddress.
+    ///
+    /// @note This does NOT support empty string value.
+    ///
+    /// @param el Element holding a value to be extracted.
+    asiolink::IOAddress operator()(ConstElementPtr el) const {
+        return (asiolink::IOAddress(el->stringValue()));
+    }
+};
+
+} // end of namespace isc::data
+} // end of namespace isc
+
+#endif // ELEMENT_VALUE_H