01: /*
02: * Copyright (c) 2004-2005 SLF4J.ORG
03: * Copyright (c) 2004-2005 QOS.ch
04: *
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33:
34: package org.slf4j.spi;
35:
36: import org.slf4j.ILoggerFactory;
37:
38: /**
39: * An internal interface which helps the static {@link org.slf4j.LoggerFactory}
40: * class bind with the appropriate {@link ILoggerFactory} instance.
41: *
42: * @author Ceki Gülcü
43: */
44: public interface LoggerFactoryBinder {
45:
46: /**
47: * Return the instance of {@link ILoggerFactory} that
48: * {@link org.slf4j.LoggerFactory} class should bind to.
49: *
50: * @return the instance of {@link ILoggerFactory} that
51: * {@link org.slf4j.LoggerFactory} class should bind to.
52: */
53: public ILoggerFactory getLoggerFactory();
54:
55: /**
56: * The String form of the {@link ILoggerFactory} object that this
57: * <code>LoggerFactoryBinder</code> instance is <em>intended</em> to return.
58: *
59: * <p>This method allows the developer to intterogate this binder's intention
60: * which may be different from the {@link ILoggerFactory} instance it is able to
61: * yield in practice. The discrepency should only occur in case of errors.
62: *
63: * @return the class name of the intended {@link ILoggerFactory} instance
64: */
65: public String getLoggerFactoryClassStr();
66: }
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