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package org.slf4j.impl;

import org.slf4j.IMarkerFactory;
import org.slf4j.MarkerFactory;
import org.slf4j.helpers.BasicMarkerFactory;
import org.slf4j.spi.MarkerFactoryBinder;

/**
 * 
 * The binding of {@link MarkerFactory} class with an actual instance of 
 * {@link IMarkerFactory} is performed using information returned by this class. 
 * 
 * @author Ceki Gülcü
 * @author Andrey Korzhevskiy <a.korzhevskiy@gmail.com>
 */
public class StaticMarkerBinder implements MarkerFactoryBinder {

  /**
   * The unique instance of this class.
   */
  public static final StaticMarkerBinder SINGLETON = new StaticMarkerBinder();
  
  final IMarkerFactory markerFactory = new BasicMarkerFactory();
  
  private StaticMarkerBinder() {
  }
  
  /**
   * Return the singleton of this class.
   * 
   * @return the StaticMarkerBinder singleton
   * @since 1.7.14
   */
  public static StaticMarkerBinder getSingleton() {
      return SINGLETON;
  }
  
  /**
   * Currently this method always returns an instance of 
   * {@link BasicMarkerFactory}.
   */
  public IMarkerFactory getMarkerFactory() {
    return markerFactory;
  }
  
  /**
   * Currently, this method returns the class name of
   * {@link BasicMarkerFactory}.
   */
  public String getMarkerFactoryClassStr() {
    return BasicMarkerFactory.class.getName();
  }
}