diff -N DetectorService.java
--- DetectorService.java	21 Sep 2007 01:42:12 -0000	1.1
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-package org.lcsim.services;
-
-import org.lcsim.conditions.DetectorLocator;
-import org.lcsim.detector.IDetectorElement;
-import org.lcsim.geometry.Detector;
-
-/**
- * A service for locating a {@link org.lcsim.detector.IDetectorElement} given a 
- * fully qualified path string.
- * 
- * @author jeremym
- * @version $Id: DetectorService.java,v 1.1 2007/09/21 01:42:12 jeremy Exp $
- */
-public class DetectorService 
-{
-	/**
-	 * Find an {@link org.lcsim.detector.IDetectorElement} given a fully qualified
-	 * path string.  
-	 * 
-	 * The path string should in the format "/FullDetectorName/Subsys/Subcomponent",
-	 * for instance, "/sid01/VertexBarrel/VertexBarrel_layer0".
-	 * 
-	 * This method uses the conditions system to locate the full detector 
-	 * from the first portion of the path.  This has the side effect of setting 
-	 * the "current" detector and triggering the conditions listeners
-	 * of the default ConditionsManager that the detector has changed.  For this
-	 * reason, it is not advisable to call this method in the event loop, as there
-	 * is quite a lot of overhead to looking up and building the full detector
-	 * from scratch.
-	 * 
-	 * @param pathString A fully qualified path string including the name of the detector.
-	 * @return A {@link org.lcsim.detector.IDetectorElement} matching the <code>pathString</code>.
-	 */
-	public IDetectorElement getDetectorElement(String pathString)
-	{
-		// Strip out leading '/' char.
-		if (pathString.charAt(0) == '/')
-			pathString = pathString.substring(1);
-				
-		// Make a path to lookup.
-		String path[] = pathString.split("/");
-						
-		// Path cannot be empty.
-		if (path.length == 0)
-			throw new IllegalArgumentException("Path string is empty!");
-				
-		// Lookup the detector by name.
-		String detectorName = path[0];		
-		Detector detector = DetectorLocator.findDetector(detectorName);		
-		IDetectorElement de = detector.getDetectorElement();
-		
-		// Find the detector subcomponent if there is one in the path.
-		if (path.length > 1)
-		{
-			String subpath[] = new String[path.length - 1];
-			System.arraycopy(path, 1, subpath, 0, path.length - 1);
-			de = de.findDetectorElement(subpath);
-		}
-
-		return de;
-	}
-}

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