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package org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.exps;

import org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.JDBCStore;
import org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.meta.ClassMapping;
import org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.SQLBuffer;
import org.apache.openjpa.kernel.StoreContext;
import org.apache.openjpa.lib.util.Localizer;
import org.apache.openjpa.util.UnsupportedException;
import org.apache.openjpa.util.UserException;

/**
 * Returns the SQL alias of the named column for use in a query. Note that
 * to retrieve columns in the table of the candidate object, you must
 * explicitly qualify the extension with this, as demonstrated
 * in the second example below.
 *  Examples:

 *  "company.address.ext:getColumn (\"ID\") == 5"

 * "this.ext:getColumn (\"CLS\") == \"org.apache.openjpa.example.Person\""
 * 
 *
 */
public class GetColumn
    implements JDBCFilterListener {

    
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    public static final String TAG = "getColumn";

    private static final Localizer _loc = Localizer.forPackage
        (GetColumn.class);

    @Override
    public String getTag() {
        return TAG;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean expectsArguments() {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean expectsTarget() {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public Object evaluate(Object target, Class targetClass, Object[] args,
        Class[] argClasses, Object candidate, StoreContext ctx) {
        throw new UnsupportedException(_loc.get("no-in-mem", TAG));
    }

    @Override
    public void appendTo(SQLBuffer buf, FilterValue target,
        FilterValue[] args, ClassMapping type, JDBCStore store) {
        if (!args[0].isConstant())
            throw new UserException(_loc.get("const-only", TAG));
        if (!target.isPath())
            throw new UserException(_loc.get("path-only", TAG));

        // alias the column using the target's context, so that the
        // correct relation path to the target is used
        ClassMapping mapping = target.getClassMapping();
        String colName = args[0].getValue().toString();
        buf.append(target.getColumnAlias(colName, mapping.getTable()));
    }

    @Override
    public Class getType(Class targetClass, Class[] argClasses) {
        return Object.class;
    }
}