/**
 * PANDA 3D SOFTWARE
 * Copyright (c) Carnegie Mellon University.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * All use of this software is subject to the terms of the revised BSD
 * license.  You should have received a copy of this license along
 * with this source code in a file named "LICENSE."
 *
 * @file factoryParam.h
 * @author drose
 * @date 2000-05-08
 */

#ifndef FACTORYPARAM_H
#define FACTORYPARAM_H

#include "pandabase.h"

#include "typedReferenceCount.h"

#include "pvector.h"

/**
 * The base class of any number of specific pieces of parameter information
 * that might be passed to a Factory's CreateFunc to control what kind of
 * instance is created.  This class is empty and contains no data, but
 * different kinds of factories may expect parameters of various types that
 * derive from FactoryParam (and do contain data).
 */
class EXPCL_PANDA_PUTIL FactoryParam : public TypedReferenceCount {
public:
  INLINE FactoryParam();
  INLINE FactoryParam(const FactoryParam &other);
  INLINE void operator = (const FactoryParam &other);
  INLINE ~FactoryParam();

public:
  virtual TypeHandle get_type() const {
    return get_class_type();
  }
  virtual TypeHandle force_init_type() {init_type(); return get_class_type();}
  static TypeHandle get_class_type() {
    return _type_handle;
  }
  static void init_type() {
    TypedReferenceCount::init_type();
    register_type(_type_handle, "FactoryParam",
                  TypedReferenceCount::get_class_type());
  }

private:
  static TypeHandle _type_handle;
};

#include "factoryParam.I"

#endif