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#ifndef __LOGGER_NAME_H
#define __LOGGER_NAME_H

#include <string>

/// \brief Define Name of Root Logger
///
/// In BIND-10, the name root logger of a program is the name of the program
/// itself (in contrast to packages such as log4cplus where the root logger name
//  is something like "root").  These trivial functions allow the setting and
// getting of that name by the logger classes.

namespace isc {
namespace log {

/// \brief Set root logger name
///
/// This function should be called by the program's initialization code before
/// any logging functions are called.
///
/// \param name Name of the root logger.  This should be the program name.
void setRootLoggerName(const std::string& name);

/// \brief Get root logger name
///
/// \return Name of the root logger.
const std::string& getRootLoggerName();

/// \brief Expand logger name
///
/// Given a logger name, returns the fully-expanded logger name.  If the name
/// starts with the root logger name, it is returned as-is.  Otherwise it is
/// prefixed with the root logger name.
///
/// \param name Name to expand.
///
/// \return Fully-expanded logger name.
std::string expandLoggerName(const std::string& name);

}
}

#endif // __LOGGER_NAME_H