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package org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel;

/**
 * The enumeration value indicating horizontal alignment of a cell,
 * i.e., whether it is aligned general, left, right, horizontally centered, filled (replicated),
 * justified, centered across multiple cells, or distributed.
 */
public enum HorizontalAlignment {
    /**
     * The horizontal alignment is general-aligned. Text data is left-aligned.
     * Numbers, dates, and times are rightaligned. Boolean types are centered.
     * Changing the alignment does not change the type of data.
     */
    GENERAL,

    /**
     * The horizontal alignment is left-aligned, even in Rightto-Left mode.
     * Aligns contents at the left edge of the cell. If an indent amount is specified, the contents of
     * the cell is indented from the left by the specified number of character spaces. The character spaces are
     * based on the default font and font size for the workbook.
     */
    LEFT,

    /**
     * The horizontal alignment is centered, meaning the text is centered across the cell.
     */
    CENTER,

    /**
     * The horizontal alignment is right-aligned, meaning that cell contents are aligned at the right edge of the cell,
     * even in Right-to-Left mode.
     */
    RIGHT,

    /**
     * Indicates that the value of the cell should be filled
     * across the entire width of the cell. If blank cells to the right also have the fill alignment,
     * they are also filled with the value, using a convention similar to centerContinuous.
     * 
     * Additional rules:
     * 

     * Only whole values can be appended, not partial values.
     * The column will not be widened to 'best fit' the filled value
     * If appending an additional occurrence of the value exceeds the boundary of the cell
     * left/right edge, don't append the additional occurrence of the value.
     * The display value of the cell is filled, not the underlying raw number.
     * 
     * 
     */
    FILL,

    /**
     * The horizontal alignment is justified (flush left and right).
     * For each line of text, aligns each line of the wrapped text in a cell to the right and left
     * (except the last line). If no single line of text wraps in the cell, then the text is not justified.
     */
    JUSTIFY,

    /**
     * The horizontal alignment is centered across multiple cells.
     * The information about how many cells to span is expressed in the Sheet Part,
     * in the row of the cell in question. For each cell that is spanned in the alignment,
     * a cell element needs to be written out, with the same style Id which references the centerContinuous alignment.
     */
    CENTER_SELECTION,

    /**
     * Indicates that each 'word' in each line of text inside the cell is evenly distributed
     * across the width of the cell, with flush right and left margins.
     * 
     * When there is also an indent value to apply, both the left and right side of the cell
     * are padded by the indent value.
     * 
     *  A 'word' is a set of characters with no space character in them. 
     *  Two lines inside a cell are separated by a carriage return. 
     */
    DISTRIBUTED;
    
    public short getCode() {
        return (short) ordinal();
    }
    public static HorizontalAlignment forInt(int code) {
        if (code < 0 || code >= values().length) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid HorizontalAlignment code: " + code);
        }
        return values()[code];
    }
}