From c8c1c693075ac02b4f3e66ada5d4ea7765461497 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Vik <10241915+LukasVik@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 13:53:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add get_simulator_name() to ui

---
 tests/unit/test_ui.py |  4 ++++
 vunit/ui/__init__.py  | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/unit/test_ui.py b/tests/unit/test_ui.py
index cacf1620d..76c6ab078 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_ui.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_ui.py
@@ -1193,6 +1193,10 @@ def test_get_testbench_files(self):
             sorted(expected, key=lambda x: x.name),
         )
 
+    def test_get_simulator_name(self):
+        ui = self._create_ui()
+        self.assertEqual(ui.get_simulator_name(), "mock")
+
     def _create_ui(self, *args):
         """ Create an instance of the VUnit public interface class """
         with mock.patch(
diff --git a/vunit/ui/__init__.py b/vunit/ui/__init__.py
index b18994973..f1f796767 100644
--- a/vunit/ui/__init__.py
+++ b/vunit/ui/__init__.py
@@ -1049,3 +1049,13 @@ def get_implementation_subset(self, source_files):
                 for source_file in source_files
             ]
         )
+
+    def get_simulator_name(self):
+        """
+        Get the name of the simulator used.
+
+        Will return None if no simulator was found.
+        """
+        if self._simulator_class is None:
+            return None
+        return self._simulator_class.name