xFileDataNode.I

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/**
 * PANDA 3D SOFTWARE
 * Copyright (c) Carnegie Mellon University.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * All use of this software is subject to the terms of the revised BSD
 * license.  You should have received a copy of this license along
 * with this source code in a file named "LICENSE."
 *
 * @file xFileDataNode.I
 * @author drose
 * @date 2004-10-08
 */

/**
 * Since the children of an XFileDataNode are syntactically constrained to
 * themselves be XFileDataNodes, this is a convenience function that returns
 * the same thing as XFileNode::get_child(), but it is cast to a type
 * XFileDataNode and dereferenced.
 */
INLINE const XFileDataNode &XFileDataNode::
get_data_child(int n) const {
  return *DCAST(XFileDataNode, get_child(n));
}


/**
 * Returns the template used to define this data object.  Since the only
 * classes to inherit from XFileDataNode are XFileDataNodeTemplate and
 * XFileDataNodeReference, both of which represent a class that is defined by
 * a template, it makes sense to put this common method here in the base
 * class.
 */
INLINE XFileTemplate *XFileDataNode::
get_template() const {
  return _template;
}

/**
 * A convenience function to return the name of the template used to define
 * this data object.
 */
INLINE const std::string &XFileDataNode::
get_template_name() const {
  return _template->get_name();
}