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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "COM_result.hh"
+
+namespace blender::realtime_compositor {
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Input Descriptor
+ *
+ * A class that describes an input of an operation. */
+class InputDescriptor {
+ public:
+  /* The type of input. This may be different that the type of result that the operation will
+   * receive for the input, in which case, an implicit conversion operation will be added as an
+   * input processor to convert it to the required type. */
+  ResultType type;
+  /* If true, then the input does not need to be realized on the domain of the operation before its
+   * execution. See the discussion in COM_domain.hh for more information. */
+  bool skip_realization = false;
+  /* The priority of the input for determining the operation domain. The non-single value input
+   * with the highest priority will be used to infer the operation domain, the highest priority
+   * being zero. See the discussion in COM_domain.hh for more information. */
+  int domain_priority = 0;
+  /* If true, the input expects a single value, and if a non-single value is provided, a default
+   * single value will be used instead, see the get_<type>_value_default methods in the Result
+   * class. It follows that this also implies skip_realization, because we don't need to realize a
+   * result that will be discarded anyways. If false, the input can work with both single and
+   * non-single values. */
+  bool expects_single_value = false;
+};
+
+}  // namespace blender::realtime_compositor