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/**
 * The MIT License
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2015 Asterios Raptis
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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package de.alpharogroup.reflection;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import lombok.experimental.ExtensionMethod;
import de.alpharogroup.string.StringExtensions;


/**
 * The class {@link ReflectionExtensions}.
 */
@ExtensionMethod(StringExtensions.class)
public final class ReflectionExtensions
{


	/**
	 * Gets all fieldnames from the given class as an String array.
	 *
	 * @param cls
	 *            The class object to get the fieldnames.
	 *
	 * @return Gets all fieldnames from the given class as an String array.
	 */
	public static List getFieldNames(final Class cls)
	{
		final Field[] fields = cls.getDeclaredFields();
		final List fieldNames = new ArrayList<>();
		for (final Field field : fields)
		{
			fieldNames.add(field.getName());
		}
		return fieldNames;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets all methodnames from the given class as an String array.
	 *
	 * @param cls
	 *            The class object to get the methodnames.
	 *
	 * @return Gets all methodnames from the given class as an String array.
	 */
	public static String[] getMethodNames(final Class cls)
	{
		final Method[] methods = cls.getDeclaredMethods();
		final String[] methodNames = new String[methods.length];
		for (int i = 0; i < methods.length; i++)
		{
			methodNames[i] = methods[i].getName();
		}
		return methodNames;
	}

	/**
	 * Generates a Map with the fieldName as key and the method as value. Concatenates the given
	 * prefix and the fieldname and puts the result into the map.
	 *
	 * @param fieldNames
	 *            A list with the fieldNames.
	 * @param prefix
	 *            The prefix for the methodname.
	 *
	 * @return the method names with prefix from field names
	 */
	public static final Map getMethodNamesWithPrefixFromFieldNames(
		final List fieldNames, final String prefix)
	{
		final Map fieldNameMethodMapper = new HashMap<>();
		for (final String fieldName : fieldNames)
		{
			final String firstCharacterToUpperCasefieldName = fieldName.firstCharacterToUpperCase();
			final String methodName = prefix + firstCharacterToUpperCasefieldName;
			fieldNameMethodMapper.put(fieldName, methodName);
		}
		return fieldNameMethodMapper;
	}


	/**
	 * Gets the modifiers from the given Field as a list of String objects.
	 *
	 * @param field
	 *            The field to get the modifiers.
	 * @return A list with the modifiers as String objects from the given Field.
	 */
	public static List getModifiers(final Field field)
	{
		final String modifiers = Modifier.toString(field.getModifiers());
		final String[] modifiersArray = modifiers.split(" ");
		return Arrays.asList(modifiersArray);
	}

	/**
	 * Creates a new instance from the same type as the given object.
	 *
	 * @param obj
	 *            the obj
	 * @return the new instance
	 * @throws ClassNotFoundException
	 *             the class not found exception
	 * @throws InstantiationException
	 *             the instantiation exception
	 * @throws IllegalAccessException
	 *             the illegal access exception
	 */
	public static Object getNewInstance(final Object obj) throws ClassNotFoundException,
		InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException
	{
		return newInstance(obj);
	}

	/**
	 * Creates a new instance from the same type as the given Class.
	 *
	 * @param 
	 *            the generic type
	 * @param clazz
	 *            the Class object
	 * @return the new instance
	 * @throws ClassNotFoundException
	 *             the class not found exception
	 * @throws InstantiationException
	 *             the instantiation exception
	 * @throws IllegalAccessException
	 *             the illegal access exception
	 */

	public static  T newInstance(final Class clazz) throws InstantiationException,
		IllegalAccessException, ClassNotFoundException
	{
		return clazz.newInstance();
	}

	/**
	 * Creates a new instance from the same type as the given object.
	 *
	 * @param 
	 *            the generic type
	 * @param obj
	 *            the obj
	 * @return the new instance
	 * @throws ClassNotFoundException
	 *             the class not found exception
	 * @throws InstantiationException
	 *             the instantiation exception
	 * @throws IllegalAccessException
	 *             the illegal access exception
	 */
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	public static  T newInstance(final T obj) throws InstantiationException,
		IllegalAccessException, ClassNotFoundException
	{
		return newInstance((Class)Class.forName(obj.getClass().getCanonicalName()));
	}

}