From 1d292521268b918579f80a56cca60640b79f1808 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hans-Christian Ebke <ebke@cs.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:16:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Core/Utils/PropertyManager: Added createIfNotExists factory
 method.

git-svn-id: http://www.openmesh.org/svnrepo/OpenMesh/trunk@669 fdac6126-5c0c-442c-9429-916003d36597
---
 src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/PropertyManager.hh | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/PropertyManager.hh b/src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/PropertyManager.hh
index 243e8cee..21dba558 100644
--- a/src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/PropertyManager.hh
+++ b/src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/PropertyManager.hh
@@ -131,6 +131,18 @@ class PropertyManager {
 
             return *this;
         }
+
+        /**
+         * Create a property manager for the supplied property and mesh.
+         * If the property doesn't exist, it is created. In any case,
+         * lifecycle management is disabled.
+         */
+        static PropertyManager createIfNotExists(MeshT &mesh, const char *propname) {
+            PROPTYPE dummy_prop;
+            PropertyManager pm(mesh, propname, mesh.get_property_handle(dummy_prop, propname));
+            pm.retain();
+            return std::move(pm);
+        }
 #endif
 
         /**