From b14aab2fe4de88eb4bc7813124a616b42275734e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:33:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] give Attribute power to ObjectFactory class.

---
 src/core/object-factory.cc | 12 ++++++++++++
 src/core/object-factory.h  |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/core/object-factory.cc b/src/core/object-factory.cc
index 672997f4d..6abbd306e 100644
--- a/src/core/object-factory.cc
+++ b/src/core/object-factory.cc
@@ -47,4 +47,16 @@ ObjectFactory::Create (void) const
   return object;
 }
 
+std::ostream & operator << (std::ostream &os, const ObjectFactory &factory)
+{
+  return os;
+}
+std::istream & operator >> (std::istream &is, ObjectFactory &factory)
+{
+  return is;
+}
+
+
+VALUE_HELPER_CPP (ObjectFactory);
+
 } // namespace ns3
diff --git a/src/core/object-factory.h b/src/core/object-factory.h
index a3434310d..a28eb9c68 100644
--- a/src/core/object-factory.h
+++ b/src/core/object-factory.h
@@ -22,11 +22,17 @@ public:
   template <typename T>
   Ptr<T> Create (void) const;
 
+  VALUE_HELPER_HEADER_1 (ObjectFactory);
 private:
   TypeId m_tid;
   AttributeList m_parameters;
 };
 
+std::ostream & operator << (std::ostream &os, const ObjectFactory &factory);
+std::istream & operator >> (std::istream &is, ObjectFactory &factory);
+
+VALUE_HELPER_HEADER_2 (ObjectFactory);
+
 } // namespace ns3
 
 namespace ns3 {