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package org.springframework.webflow.engine.support;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.springframework.binding.expression.EvaluationContext;
import org.springframework.binding.expression.Expression;
import org.springframework.util.Assert;
import org.springframework.webflow.engine.TransitionCriteria;
import org.springframework.webflow.execution.RequestContext;

/**
 * Transition criteria that tests the value of an expression. The
 * expression is used to express a condition that guards transition
 * execution in a web flow. Expressions will be evaluated agains the request
 * context and should return a boolean result.
 * 
 * @author Keith Donald
 * @author Erwin Vervaet
 */
public class BooleanExpressionTransitionCriteria implements TransitionCriteria {

	/**
	 * Constant alias that points to the id of the last event that occured
	 * in a web flow execution.
	 */
	private static final String RESULT_ALIAS = "result";
	
	/**
	 * The expression evaluator to use.
	 */
	private Expression booleanExpression;

	/**
	 * Create a new expression based transition criteria object.
	 * @param booleanExpression the expression evaluator testing the criteria,
	 * this expression should be a condition that returns a Boolean value
	 */
	public BooleanExpressionTransitionCriteria(Expression booleanExpression) {
		Assert.notNull(booleanExpression, "The expression to test is required");
		this.booleanExpression = booleanExpression;
	}

	public boolean test(RequestContext context) {
		Object result = booleanExpression.evaluate(context, getEvaluationContext(context));
		Assert.isInstanceOf(Boolean.class, result, "Impossible to determine result of boolean expression: ");
		return ((Boolean)result).booleanValue();
	}

	/**
	 * Setup a context with a few aliased values to make writing expression based
	 * transition conditions a bit easier.
	 */
	protected EvaluationContext getEvaluationContext(RequestContext context) {
		final Map attributes = new HashMap(1, 1);
		// ${#result == lastEvent.id}
		if (context.getLastEvent() != null) {
			attributes.put(RESULT_ALIAS, context.getLastEvent().getId());
		}
		return new EvaluationContext() {
			public Map getAttributes() {
				return attributes;
			}
		};
	}

	public String toString() {
		return booleanExpression.toString();
	}
}




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