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/* Copyright (c) 2007-2009 The Bioclipse Project and others.
 *                    2019  Egon Willighagen 
 * 
 * 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
 * www.eclipse.org—epl-v10.html 
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     Jonathan Alvarsson
 *     Ola Spjuth
 *
 ******************************************************************************/
package net.bioclipse.core.domain;

import java.util.UUID;

import org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform;

/**
 * Base implementation of the IBioObject interface which is 
 * meant to be extended.
 * 
 * @author jonalv, ola
 *
 */
public abstract class BioObject implements IBioObject {

    /**
     * An as-good-as-unique ID.
     */
    private final String uid = UUID.randomUUID().toString();

    /**
     * The underlying IResource, may be null
     */
    protected IResource resource;

    public BioObject() {
        
    }
    
    /**
     * Returns this the ID of this BioObject.
     */
    public String getUID() {
        return uid;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the resource behind this BioObject, or
     * null if no such resource exists.
     */
    public IResource getResource() {
        return resource;
    }

    /**
     * Set associated Eclipse Resource for this IBioObject
     */
    public void setResource(IResource resource) {
    	//TODO: Maybe add/remove listeners here at some point
    	this.resource=resource;
    }
    
    /**
     * Basic properties. Should be overridden by subclasses.
     */    
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public Object getAdapter(Class adapter) {
        if(adapter.isAssignableFrom(this.getClass()))
            return this;
        return Platform.getAdapterManager().getAdapter(this, adapter);

    }
}