1 /** 2 * Copyright (c) 2004-2011 QOS.ch 3 * All rights reserved. 4 * 5 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining 6 * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 7 * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including 8 * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, 9 * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to 10 * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to 11 * the following conditions: 12 * 13 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be 14 * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. 15 * 16 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, 17 * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF 18 * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND 19 * NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE 20 * LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION 21 * OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION 22 * WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. 23 * 24 */ 25 package org.slf4j.spi; 26 27 import org.slf4j.IMarkerFactory; 28 29 30 /** 31 * An internal interface which helps the static {@link org.slf4j.MarkerFactory} 32 * class bind with the appropriate {@link IMarkerFactory} instance. 33 * 34 * @author Ceki Gülcü 35 */ 36 public interface MarkerFactoryBinder { 37 38 /** 39 * Return the instance of {@link IMarkerFactory} that 40 * {@link org.slf4j.MarkerFactory} class should bind to. 41 * 42 * @return the instance of {@link IMarkerFactory} that 43 * {@link org.slf4j.MarkerFactory} class should bind to. 44 */ 45 public IMarkerFactory getMarkerFactory(); 46 47 /** 48 * The String form of the {@link IMarkerFactory} object that this 49 * <code>MarkerFactoryBinder</code> instance is <em>intended</em> to return. 50 * 51 * <p>This method allows the developer to intterogate this binder's intention 52 * which may be different from the {@link IMarkerFactory} instance it is able to 53 * return. Such a discrepency should only occur in case of errors. 54 * 55 * @return the class name of the intended {@link IMarkerFactory} instance 56 */ 57 public String getMarkerFactoryClassStr(); 58 }