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package javax.faces.view;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedList;

import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
import javax.faces.component.UIViewParameter;
import javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;

/**
 * @author Simon Lessard (latest modification by $Author: bommel $)
 * @version $Revision: 1187700 $ $Date: 2011-10-22 07:19:37 -0500 (Sat, 22 Oct 2011) $
 *
 * @since 2.0
 */
public abstract class ViewMetadata
{
    public abstract UIViewRoot createMetadataView(FacesContext context);
    
    public abstract String getViewId();
    
    public static Collection getViewParameters(UIViewRoot root)
    {
        LinkedList result = null;
        UIComponent metadataFacet = root.getFacet (UIViewRoot.METADATA_FACET_NAME);
        Iterator children;
        
        if (metadataFacet == null) {
             // No metadata, so return an empty collection.
             
             return Collections.emptyList();
        }
        
        // Iterate over all the children, keep only the view parameters.
        
        if (metadataFacet.getChildCount() > 0)
        {
            children = metadataFacet.getChildren().iterator();
            
            while (children.hasNext()) {
                 UIComponent component = children.next();
                 
                 if (result == null)
                 {
                     result = new LinkedList();
                 }
                 
                 if (component instanceof UIViewParameter) {
                      result.add ((UIViewParameter) component);
                 }
            }
        }
        
        // TODO: does this need to be immutable?  Spec does not indicate either
        // way.
        if (result == null)
        {
            return Collections.emptyList();
        }
        else
        {
            return Collections.unmodifiableCollection (result);
        }
    }
}