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 * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 Association for Decentralized Information Management
 * in Industry THTH ry.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *     VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.simantics.db.layer0.util;

import org.simantics.db.Resource;
import org.simantics.db.WriteGraph;
import org.simantics.db.exception.DatabaseException;
import org.simantics.layer0.Layer0;

/**
 * TODO: is this useful? Doesn't seem to be used.
 */
public class TypeUtils {

	public static Resource createType(WriteGraph g, String name, Resource baseType) throws DatabaseException {
		Layer0 b = Layer0.getInstance(g);
		Resource newType = g.newResource();
		g.claim(newType, b.Inherits, baseType);
		if(name != null)
			g.claimLiteral(newType, b.HasName, name);
		return newType; 
	}

}