Constructors and Destructors

KcsProfile includes two types of constructors: an I/O-based constructor and an identifier-based constructor.

The I/O-based constructor takes something that is out in static store and instantiates the profile based on the data contained within it. That I/O object can represent file, memory, network, or any other I/O derivative. This relates back to the save methods where the state is saved through an I/O object. This constructor generates a KcsProfile derivative from a saved state.

The identifier-based constructor indicates the CMM Id, CMM version, ProfileId, and the profile version. This constructor allows creation of an empty profile and determines which CMM to use, which profile format to use, and which CMM version to use. They are defaulted to create the latest ICC CMM, with the latest KCMS profile format version.

Both constructors allocate or create a profile format object. Then they take the ChunkSet of that profile format object and use that to set their own ChunkSet. This is how KcsProfile and KcsProfileFormat objects link their KcsChunkSet objects during construction. This happens in the base class, so derivatives do not need to do this unless they have special requirements such as requiring a special derivation of the ChunkSet object.