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2   * SAT4J: a SATisfiability library for Java Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Daniel Le Berre
3   *
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18  * 
19  * Based on the original MiniSat specification from:
20  * 
21  * An extensible SAT solver. Niklas Een and Niklas Sorensson. Proceedings of the
22  * Sixth International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability
23  * Testing, LNCS 2919, pp 502-518, 2003.
24  *
25  * See www.minisat.se for the original solver in C++.
26  * 
27  *******************************************************************************/
28  package org.sat4j.core;
29  
30  import java.io.Serializable;
31  import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
32  import java.lang.reflect.Method;
33  import java.util.ArrayList;
34  import java.util.List;
35  
36  import org.sat4j.specs.ISolver;
37  
38  /**
39   * A solver factory is responsible for providing prebuilt solvers to the end user.
40   * 
41   * @author bourgeois
42   */
43  public abstract class ASolverFactory<T extends ISolver> implements Serializable {
44  
45      /**
46  	 * 
47  	 */
48  	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
49  
50  	/**
51       * This methods returns names of solvers to be used with the method
52       * getSolverByName().
53       * 
54       * @return an array containing the names of all the solvers available in the
55       *         library.
56       * @see #createSolverByName(String)
57       */
58      public String[] solverNames() {
59          List<String> l = new ArrayList<String>();
60          Method[] solvers = this.getClass().getDeclaredMethods();
61          for (int i = 0; i < solvers.length; i++) {
62              if (solvers[i].getParameterTypes().length == 0
63                      && solvers[i].getName().startsWith("new")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
64                  l.add(solvers[i].getName().substring(3));
65              }
66          }
67          String[] names = new String[l.size()];
68          l.toArray(names);
69          return names;
70      }
71  
72      /**
73       * create a solver from its String name. the solvername Xxxx must map one of
74       * the newXxxx methods.
75       * 
76       * @param solvername
77       *            the name of the solver
78       * @return an ISolver built using newSolvername. <code>null</code> if the
79       *         solvername doesn't map one of the method of the factory.
80       */
81      @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
82      public T createSolverByName(String solvername) {
83          try {
84              Class<?>[] paramtypes = {};
85                  Method m = this.getClass()
86                          .getMethod("new" + solvername, paramtypes); //$NON-NLS-1$
87                  return (T) m.invoke(null, (Object[]) null);
88          } catch (SecurityException e) {
89              e.printStackTrace();
90          } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
91               e.printStackTrace();
92          } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
93              e.printStackTrace();
94          } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
95              e.printStackTrace();
96          } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
97              e.printStackTrace();
98          }
99           return null;
100     }
101 
102     /**
103      * To obtain the default solver of the library. The solver is suitable to
104      * solve huge SAT benchmarks. It should reflect state-of-the-art SAT
105      * technologies.
106      * 
107      * For solving small/easy SAT benchmarks, use lightSolver() instead.
108      * 
109      * @return a solver from the factory
110      * @see #lightSolver()
111      */
112     public abstract T defaultSolver();
113 
114     /**
115      * To obtain a solver that is suitable for solving many small instances of
116      * SAT problems.
117      * 
118      * The solver is not using sophisticated but costly reasoning and avoids to
119      * allocate too much memory.
120      * 
121      * For solving bigger SAT benchmarks, use defaultSolver() instead.
122      * 
123      * @return a solver from the factory
124      * @see #defaultSolver()
125      */
126     public abstract T lightSolver();
127 }