Fix for updating CTP counters.

[u/mrichter/AliRoot.git] / HLT / trigger / AliHLTGlobalTrigger.cxx

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/// @file   AliHLTGlobalTrigger.cxx
/// @author Artur Szostak <artursz@iafrica.com>
/// @date   19 Dec 2008
/// @brief  Implementation of the AliHLTGlobalTrigger base class.
///
/// The AliHLTGlobalTrigger base class is an abstract class from which a
/// derived class is constructed from AliHLTTriggerMenu on the fly. The derived
/// class then implements triggering based on the particular trigger menu.

#include "AliHLTGlobalTrigger.h"
#include "AliHLTGlobalTriggerWrapper.h"
#include "TClass.h"

ClassImp(AliHLTGlobalTrigger)


AliHLTGlobalTrigger* AliHLTGlobalTrigger::CreateNew(const char* name)
{
  // Creates a new instance of the named global trigger class.
  
  TClass* c = TClass::GetClass(name);
  if (c == NULL) return NULL;
  if (c->GetDeclFileLine() == -1 and c->GetImplFileLine() == -1)
  {
    // Could not find the implementation lines which should be there if the code
    // was compiled. So assuming that this is an interpreted class. In this case
    // we need to use a interface wrapper class to make things work properly.
    AliHLTGlobalTriggerWrapper* trigger = new AliHLTGlobalTriggerWrapper(name);
    if (not trigger->IsValid()) return NULL;
    return trigger;
  }
  else
  {
    return static_cast<AliHLTGlobalTrigger*>(c->New());
  }
}