/*=========================================================================

  Program:   Insight Segmentation & Registration Toolkit
  Module:    $RCSfile: itkNiftiImageIOFactory.h,v $
  Language:  C++
  Date:      $Date: 2007-12-03 13:13:11 $
  Version:   $Revision: 1.3 $

  Copyright (c) Insight Software Consortium. All rights reserved.
  See ITKCopyright.txt or http://www.itk.org/HTML/Copyright.htm for details.

     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.

=========================================================================*/
#ifndef __itkNiftiImageIOFactory_h
#define __itkNiftiImageIOFactory_h

#ifdef _MSC_VER
#pragma warning ( disable : 4786 )
#endif

#include "itkObjectFactoryBase.h"
#include "itkImageIOBase.h"

namespace itk
{
/** \class NiftiImageIOFactory
   * \brief Create instances of NiftiImageIO objects using an object factory.
   */
class ITK_EXPORT NiftiImageIOFactory : public ObjectFactoryBase
{
public:
  /** Standard class typedefs. */
  typedef NiftiImageIOFactory      Self;
  typedef ObjectFactoryBase        Superclass;
  typedef SmartPointer<Self>       Pointer;
  typedef SmartPointer<const Self> ConstPointer;

  /** Class methods used to interface with the registered factories. */
  virtual const char* GetITKSourceVersion(void) const;
  virtual const char* GetDescription(void) const;

  /** Method for class instantiation. */
  itkFactorylessNewMacro(Self);

  /** Run-time type information (and related methods). */
  itkTypeMacro(NiftiImageIOFactory, ObjectFactoryBase);

  /** Register one factory of this type  */
  static void RegisterOneFactory(void)
    {
    NiftiImageIOFactory::Pointer metaFactory = NiftiImageIOFactory::New();
    ObjectFactoryBase::RegisterFactory(metaFactory);
    }

protected:
  NiftiImageIOFactory();
  ~NiftiImageIOFactory();
  virtual void PrintSelf(std::ostream& os, Indent indent) const;

private:
  NiftiImageIOFactory(const Self&); //purposely not implemented
  void operator=(const Self&); //purposely not implemented

};


} // end namespace itk

#endif
