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Quick ORM implementation based on the UJO objects.
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/*
 *  Copyright 2007-2008 Paul Ponec
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 *  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 *  limitations under the License.
 */   
   
package org.ujoframework.extensions;

import java.util.List;
import org.ujoframework.Ujo;
import org.ujoframework.UjoProperty;

/**
 * A PathProperty class is an composite of a UjoProperty objects.
 * The PathProperty class can be used wherever is used UjoProperty - with a one important exception: 
 * do not send the PathProperty object to methods Ujo.readValue(...) and Ujo.writeValue(...) !!!
 * You can use the preferred methods UjoManager.setValue(...) / UjoManager.getValue(...) 
 * to write and read a value instead of or use some type safe solution by UjoExt or a method of UjoProperty.
 * Note that method isDirect() returns a false in this class. For this reason, the property is not included 
 * in the list returned by Ujo.readProperties().
 * 
 * @author Pavel Ponec
 * @since 0.81
 */
public class PathProperty implements UjoProperty {

    private final UjoProperty[] properties;

    public PathProperty(UjoProperty... properties) {
        this.properties = properties;
    }

    /** Get the last property of the current object. The result may not be the direct property. */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    final public UjoProperty getLastProperty() {
        return properties[properties.length - 1];
    }

    /** Get a property from selected positon.. The result may not be the direct property. */
    final public UjoProperty getProperty(final int index) {
        return properties[index];
    }

    /** Returns a count of properties */
    final public int getPropertyCount() {
        return properties.length;
    }

    /** Full property name */
    public String getName() {
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(32);
        for (UjoProperty p : properties) {
            if (result.length() > 0) {
                result.append('.');
            }
            result.append(p.getName());
        }
        return result.toString();
    }

    /** Property type */
    public Class getType() {
        return getLastProperty().getType();
    }

    /** Get a semifinal value from an Ujo object by a chain of properties.
     * If a value  (not getLastProperty) is null, then the result is null.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public Ujo getSemifinalValue(UJO ujo) {

        Ujo result = ujo;
        for (int i=0; i descending() {
        return isAscending() ? new SortingProperty(this, false) : this ;
    }

    /** Add all direct properties to the list form parameter. */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public void addDirectProperties(List result) {
        for (UjoProperty p : properties) {
            if (p.isDirect()) {
                result.add(p);
            } else {
                ((PathProperty)p).addDirectProperties(result);
            }
        }
    }

    // ================ STATIC ================
    
    /** Create new instance
     * @hidden 
     */
    public static final  PathProperty newInstance(final UjoProperty property) {
        return new PathProperty(property);
    }

    /** Create new instance
     * @hidden 
     */
    public static final  PathProperty newInstance
        ( final UjoProperty property1
        , final UjoProperty property2
        ) {
        return new PathProperty(property1, property2);
    }

    /** Create new instance
     * @hidden 
     */
    public static final  PathProperty newInstance
        ( final UjoProperty property1
        , final UjoProperty property2
        , final UjoProperty property3
        ) {
        return new PathProperty(property1, property2, property3);
    }

    /** Create new instance
     * @hidden 
     */
    public static final  PathProperty newInstance
        ( final UjoProperty property1
        , final UjoProperty property2
        , final UjoProperty property3
        , final UjoProperty property4
        ) {
        return new PathProperty(property1, property2, property3, property4);
    }

    /** Create new instance
     * @hidden 
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static final  PathProperty create(UjoProperty... properties) {
        return new PathProperty(properties);
    }

}