#ifndef _DATACONVERTER_H_
#define _DATACONVERTER_H_

/***********************************************************************
**                                                                    **
**          /----------------------------------------------\          **
**         |  Delphes, a framework for the fast simulation  |         **
**         |       of a  generic collider experiment        |         **
**          \----------------------------------------------/          **
**                                                                    **
**                                                                    **
**   This package uses:                                               **
**   ------------------                                               **
**   FastJet algorithm: Phys. Lett. B641 (2006) [hep-ph/0512210]      ** 
**   Hector: JINST 2:P09005 (2007) [physics.acc-ph:0707.1198v2]       ** 
**   FROG: [hep-ex/0901.2718v1]                                       **
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** ------------------------------------------------------------------ **
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**   Main authors:                                                    **
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**                                                                    **
**                Severine Ovyn                Xavier Rouby           ** 
**          severine.ovyn@uclouvain.be      xavier.rouby@cern         ** 
**                                                                    ** 
**         Center for Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3)        ** 
**                Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL)              **       
**                     Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium                      **            
**                                                                    **
**                      Copyright (C) 2008-2009,                      **
**                        All rights reserved.                        **  
**                                                                    **
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/// \file DataConverter
/// \brief DataConverter class, as mother of LHEFConverter, STDHEPConverter, ...

#include <string>

#include "PdgParticle.h"
#include "Utilities/ExRootAnalysis/interface/ExRootTreeBranch.h"
#include "Utilities/ExRootAnalysis/interface/LHEF.h"

using namespace std;

class DataConverter
{
public:

  DataConverter() : Nevt(-1) {};
  DataConverter(const PdgTable& table, const int &N) : Nevt(N), pdg_table(table) {};
  virtual ~DataConverter() {};

protected:
  int Nevt; // number of events to read; -1 means "all of them"

public: 
  PdgTable pdg_table;   // table of particles from PDG
};

#endif