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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  

See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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*/

// Created on 09.01.2004 by RST.
// $Id: SuperAdapter.java,v 1.9 2005-11-20 22:25:28 salomo Exp $

package jake2.game;

import jake2.qcommon.Com;

import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Vector;

public abstract class SuperAdapter {

	/** Constructor, does the adapter registration. */
	public SuperAdapter() {
		register(this, getID());
	}

	/** Adapter registration. */
	private static void register(SuperAdapter sa, String id) {
		adapters.put(id, sa);
	}

	/** Adapter repository. */
	private static Hashtable adapters= new Hashtable();

	/** Returns the adapter from the repository given by its ID. */
	public static SuperAdapter getFromID(String key) {
		SuperAdapter sa= (SuperAdapter) adapters.get(key);

		// try to create the adapter
		if (sa == null) {
			Com.DPrintf("SuperAdapter.getFromID():adapter not found->" + key + "\n");
		}

		return sa;
	}

	/** Returns the Adapter-ID. */
	public abstract String getID();
}