#include <string>
+/*! \namespace BamTools::Constants
+ \brief Contains most of the constants used throughout BamTools.
+*/
+
namespace BamTools {
namespace Constants {
const int BAM_SIZEOF_INT = 4;
// header magic number
-const char* const BAM_HEADER_MAGIC = "BAM\001";
-const unsigned int BAM_HEADER_MAGIC_SIZE = 4;
+const char* const BAM_HEADER_MAGIC = "BAM\1";
+const unsigned int BAM_HEADER_MAGIC_LENGTH = 4;
// BAM alignment core size
const int BAM_CORE_SIZE = 32;
+const int BAM_CORE_BUFFER_SIZE = 8;
// BAM alignment flags
const int BAM_ALIGNMENT_PAIRED = 1;
const int BAM_CIGAR_HARDCLIP = 5;
const int BAM_CIGAR_PAD = 6;
+const char BAM_CIGAR_MATCH_CHAR = 'M';
+const char BAM_CIGAR_INS_CHAR = 'I';
+const char BAM_CIGAR_DEL_CHAR = 'D';
+const char BAM_CIGAR_REFSKIP_CHAR = 'N';
+const char BAM_CIGAR_SOFTCLIP_CHAR = 'S';
+const char BAM_CIGAR_HARDCLIP_CHAR = 'H';
+const char BAM_CIGAR_PAD_CHAR = 'P';
+
const int BAM_CIGAR_SHIFT = 4;
const int BAM_CIGAR_MASK = ((1 << BAM_CIGAR_SHIFT) - 1);
+// BAM tag types
+const char BAM_TAG_TYPE_ASCII = 'A';
+const char BAM_TAG_TYPE_UINT8 = 'c';
+const char BAM_TAG_TYPE_INT8 = 'C';
+const char BAM_TAG_TYPE_UINT16 = 's';
+const char BAM_TAG_TYPE_INT16 = 'S';
+const char BAM_TAG_TYPE_UINT32 = 'i';
+const char BAM_TAG_TYPE_INT32 = 'I';
+const char BAM_TAG_TYPE_FLOAT = 'f';
+const char BAM_TAG_TYPE_STRING = 'Z';
+const char BAM_TAG_TYPE_HEX = 'H';
+
+const size_t BAM_TAG_TAGSIZE = 2;
+const size_t BAM_TAG_TYPESIZE = 1;
+
// DNA bases
const char* const BAM_DNA_LOOKUP = "=ACMGRSVTWYHKDBN";
+const unsigned char BAM_BASECODE_EQUAL = 0;
+const unsigned char BAM_BASECODE_A = 1;
+const unsigned char BAM_BASECODE_C = 2;
+const unsigned char BAM_BASECODE_G = 4;
+const unsigned char BAM_BASECODE_T = 8;
+const unsigned char BAM_BASECODE_N = 15;
+
+const char BAM_DNA_EQUAL = '=';
+const char BAM_DNA_A = 'A';
+const char BAM_DNA_C = 'C';
+const char BAM_DNA_G = 'G';
+const char BAM_DNA_T = 'T';
+const char BAM_DNA_N = 'N';
+const char BAM_DNA_DEL = '-';
+const char BAM_DNA_PAD = '*';
+
+// zlib constants
+const int GZIP_ID1 = 31;
+const int GZIP_ID2 = 139;
+const int CM_DEFLATE = 8;
+const int FLG_FEXTRA = 4;
+const int OS_UNKNOWN = 255;
+const int BGZF_XLEN = 6;
+const int BGZF_ID1 = 66;
+const int BGZF_ID2 = 67;
+const int BGZF_LEN = 2;
+const int GZIP_WINDOW_BITS = -15;
+const int Z_DEFAULT_MEM_LEVEL = 8;
+
+// BZGF constants
+const int BGZF_BLOCK_HEADER_LENGTH = 18;
+const int BGZF_BLOCK_FOOTER_LENGTH = 8;
+const int BGZF_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE = 65536;
+const int BGZF_DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE = 65536;
} // namespace Constants
} // namespace BamTools