IVGCVSW-5855 Refactor the reporting of capabilities from backends

Signed-off-by: Finn Williams <Finn.Williams@arm.com>
Change-Id: I05fc331a8e91bdcb6b8a2f32cfb555060fc5d797

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/armnn/backends/IBackendInternal.hpp b/include/armnn/backends/IBackendInternal.hpp
index 135d279c21..b8edfe1f71 100644
--- a/include/armnn/backends/IBackendInternal.hpp
+++ b/include/armnn/backends/IBackendInternal.hpp
@@ -178,7 +178,16 @@ public:
     /// Returns the version of the Backend API
     static constexpr BackendVersion GetApiVersion() { return BackendVersion(1, 0); }
 
+    /// Returns a BackendCapability if the backend lists the capability
+    /// The BackendCapability must then be inspected to check whether or not that BackendCapability is supported
+    /// Otherwise returns an EmptyOptional if the BackendCapability is unlisted
+    virtual BackendCapabilities GetCapabilities() const
+    {
+        return BackendCapabilities("IBackendInternal NullCapabilities");
+    };
+
     /// Returns true if backend support the capability false otherwise
+    ARMNN_DEPRECATED_MSG("This function has been deprecated in favour of GetCapability")
     virtual bool HasCapability(BackendCapability /*capabilityClass*/) const { return false; }
 };