From 32ef925a79c323880fb0cfb4209aca8486467d17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathias Froehlich <Mathias.Froehlich@web.de>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:21:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] hla: Add convenience function to set version by string.

---
 simgear/hla/HLAFederate.cxx | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 simgear/hla/HLAFederate.hxx |  1 +
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/simgear/hla/HLAFederate.cxx b/simgear/hla/HLAFederate.cxx
index 94e8b3a2..8cd173ad 100644
--- a/simgear/hla/HLAFederate.cxx
+++ b/simgear/hla/HLAFederate.cxx
@@ -78,6 +78,22 @@ HLAFederate::setVersion(HLAFederate::Version version)
     return true;
 }
 
+bool
+HLAFederate::setVersion(const std::string& version)
+{
+    if (version == "RTI13")
+        return setVersion(RTI13);
+    else if (version == "RTI1516")
+        return setVersion(RTI1516);
+    else if (version == "RTI1516E")
+        return setVersion(RTI1516E);
+    else {
+        /// at some time think about routing these down to the factory
+        SG_LOG(SG_NETWORK, SG_ALERT, "HLA: Unknown version string in HLAFederate::setVersion!");
+        return false;
+    }
+}
+
 const std::list<std::string>&
 HLAFederate::getConnectArguments() const
 {
diff --git a/simgear/hla/HLAFederate.hxx b/simgear/hla/HLAFederate.hxx
index eb0c8424..be052130 100644
--- a/simgear/hla/HLAFederate.hxx
+++ b/simgear/hla/HLAFederate.hxx
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ public:
     /// The rti version backend to connect
     Version getVersion() const;
     bool setVersion(HLAFederate::Version version);
+    bool setVersion(const std::string& version);
 
     /// The rti backends connect arguments, depends on the version
     const std::list<std::string>& getConnectArguments() const;