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The Dynamic Registry Factory

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6 Jan 2010CPOL5 min read 25.3K   102   9  
The idea was to write the system in such a way that every format will have a common interface, and adding (or removing) a new format will not a affect the existing code at all.
//
//  Copyright (c) 2009 Roman Kecher (rmn@cplusplus.co.il)
//
//  Distributed under the Code Project Open License, Version 1.02.
//  See http://www.codeproject.com/info/cpol10.aspx
//

#ifndef __UNKNOWN_FORMAT_EXCEPTION_H__
#define __UNKNOWN_FORMAT_EXCEPTION_H__

#include <string>
#include <stdexcept>

/**
 * This exception will be thrown by the 
 * KnownFormatFactory class when a filename is of an 
 * unknown format.
 */
class UnknownFormatException : public std::runtime_error {
    public:
        UnknownFormatException (const std::string &filename) 
            : std::runtime_error("File " + filename + " is of an unknown format") {}
};

#endif // __UNKNOWN_FORMAT_EXCEPTION_H__

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