objmgr.h

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/** @file nub/objmgr.h create objects given a type name */

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//
// Copyright (c) 1999-2004 California Institute of Technology
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// Rob Peters <rjpeters at usc dot edu>
//
// created: Fri Apr 23 01:12:37 1999
// commit: $Id: objmgr.h 8249 2007-04-12 06:03:40Z rjpeters $
// $HeadURL: svn://isvn.usc.edu/software/invt/trunk/saliency/src/nub/objmgr.h $
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#ifndef GROOVX_NUB_OBJMGR_H_UTC20050626084018_DEFINED
#define GROOVX_NUB_OBJMGR_H_UTC20050626084018_DEFINED

#include "nub/ref.h"

namespace rutz
{
  class fstring;
}

namespace nub
{
  /// A thin wrapper around nub::obj_factory.
  /** This provides some compile-time insulation from nub::obj_factory
      for clients that only need to create objects, but don't need to
      register new object-creation functions. */
  namespace obj_mgr
  {
    /// Will not return 0; will throw an exception on failure.
    nub::soft_ref<nub::object> new_obj(const char* type);

    /// Will not return 0; will throw an exception on failure.
    nub::soft_ref<nub::object> new_obj(const rutz::fstring& type);

    template <class T, class S>
    nub::soft_ref<T> new_typed_obj(S type)
    {
      return dyn_cast<T>(new_obj(type));
    }
  }
}

static const char __attribute__((used)) vcid_groovx_nub_objmgr_h_utc20050626084018[] = "$Id: objmgr.h 8249 2007-04-12 06:03:40Z rjpeters $ $HeadURL: svn://isvn.usc.edu/software/invt/trunk/saliency/src/nub/objmgr.h $";
#endif // !GROOVX_NUB_OBJMGR_H_UTC20050626084018_DEFINED