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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. 
 * 
 * This class is meant to provide a *dummy* StaticMarkerBinder to the slf4j-api module. 
 * Real implementations are found in  each SLF4J binding project, e.g. slf4j-nop, 
 * slf4j-simple, slf4j-log4j12 etc.
 * 
 * @author Ceki G&uuml;lc&uuml;
 */
public class StaticMarkerBinder implements MarkerFactoryBinder {

    /**
     * The unique instance of this class.
     */
    public static final StaticMarkerBinder SINGLETON = new StaticMarkerBinder();

    private StaticMarkerBinder() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("This code should never make it into the jar");
    }

    /**
     * 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() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("This code should never make it into the jar");
    }

    /**
     * Currently, this method returns the class name of
     * {@link BasicMarkerFactory}.
     */
    public String getMarkerFactoryClassStr() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("This code should never make it into the jar");
    }

}
