/*
 * TextLabel.java April 2007
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2007, Niall Gallagher <niallg@users.sf.net>
 *
 * 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
 *
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 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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 */

package org.simpleframework.xml.core;

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;

import org.simpleframework.xml.Text;
import org.simpleframework.xml.strategy.Type;

/**
 * The <code>TextLabel</code> represents a label that is used to get
 * a converter for a text entry within an XML element. This label is
 * used to convert an XML text entry into a primitive value such as 
 * a string or an integer, this will throw an exception if the field
 * value does not represent a primitive object.
 * 
 * @author Niall Gallagher
 * 
 *  @see org.simpleframework.xml.Text
 */
class TextLabel extends TemplateLabel {
   
   /**
    * This represents the signature of the annotated contact.
    */
   private Introspector detail;
   
   /**
    * The contact that this annotation label represents.
    */
   private Contact contact;
   
   /**
    * References the annotation that was used by the contact.
    */
   private Text label;
   
   /**
    * This is the type of the class that the field references.
    */
   private Class type;
   
   /**
    * This is the default value to use if the real value is null.
    */
   private String empty;
   
   /**
    * Constructor for the <code>TextLabel</code> object. This is
    * used to create a label that can convert a XML node into a 
    * primitive value from an XML element text value.
    * 
    * @param contact this is the contact this label represents
    * @param label this is the annotation for the contact 
    */
   public TextLabel(Contact contact, Text label) {
      this.detail = new Introspector(contact, this);
      this.type = contact.getType();
      this.empty = label.empty();
      this.contact = contact;
      this.label = label;  
   }
   
   /**
    * This is used to acquire the <code>Decorator</code> for this.
    * A decorator is an object that adds various details to the
    * node without changing the overall structure of the node. For
    * example comments and namespaces can be added to the node with
    * a decorator as they do not affect the deserialization.
    * 
    * @return this returns the decorator associated with this
    */
   public Decorator getDecorator() throws Exception {
      return null;
   }
   
   /**
    * Creates a converter that can be used to transform an XML node to
    * an object and vice versa. The converter created will handles
    * only XML text and requires the context object to be provided. 
    * 
    * @param context this is the context object used for serialization
    * 
    * @return this returns a converter for serializing XML elements
    */
   public Converter getConverter(Context context) throws Exception {
      String ignore = getEmpty(context);
      Type type = getContact();
      
      if(!context.isPrimitive(type)) {
         throw new TextException("Cannot use %s to represent %s", type, label);
      }
      return new Primitive(context, type, ignore);
   }
     
   /**
    * This is used to acquire the name of the element or attribute
    * that is used by the class schema. The name is determined by
    * checking for an override within the annotation. If it contains
    * a name then that is used, if however the annotation does not
    * specify a name the the field or method name is used instead.
    *
    * @param context this is the context that is used for styling
    * 
    * @return returns the name that is used for the XML property
    */
   public String getName(Context context) {
      return getName();
   }
   
   /**
    * This is used to acquire the path of the element or attribute
    * that is used by the class schema. The path is determined by
    * acquiring the XPath expression and appending the name of the
    * label to form a fully qualified styled path.
    * 
    * @param context this is the context used to style the path
    * 
    * @return returns the path that is used for the XML property
    */
   public String getPath(Context context) throws Exception {
      return getPath();
   }
   
   /**
    * This is used to provide a configured empty value used when the
    * annotated value is null. This ensures that XML can be created
    * with required details regardless of whether values are null or
    * not. It also provides a means for sensible default values.
    * 
    * @param context this is the context object for the serialization
    * 
    * @return this returns the string to use for default values
    */
   public String getEmpty(Context context) {
      if(detail.isEmpty(empty)) {
         return null;
      }
      return empty;
   }
   
   /**
    * This is used to acquire the path of the element or attribute
    * that is used by the class schema. The path is determined by
    * acquiring the XPath expression and appending the name of the
    * label to form a fully qualified path.
    * 
    * @return returns the path that is used for the XML property
    */
   public String getPath() throws Exception {
      return getExpression().getPath();
   }
   
   /**
    * This method is used to return an XPath expression that is 
    * used to represent the position of this label. If there is no
    * XPath expression associated with this then an empty path is
    * returned. This will never return a null expression.
    * 
    * @return the XPath expression identifying the location
    */
   public Expression getExpression() throws Exception {
      return detail.getExpression();
   }
   
   /**
    * This acquires the annotation associated with this label. This
    * is typically the annotation acquired from the field or method.
    * However, in the case of unions this will return the actual
    * annotation within the union group that this represents.
    * 
    * @return this returns the annotation that this represents
    */
   public Annotation getAnnotation() {
      return label;
   }
   
   /**
    * This is used to acquire the contact object for this label. The 
    * contact retrieved can be used to set any object or primitive that
    * has been deserialized, and can also be used to acquire values to
    * be serialized in the case of object persistence. All contacts 
    * that are retrieved from this method will be accessible. 
    * 
    * @return returns the contact that this label is representing
    */
   public Contact getContact() {
      return contact;
   }
   
   /**
    * This is used to acquire the name of the element or attribute
    * that is used by the class schema. The name is determined by
    * checking for an override within the annotation. If it contains
    * a name then that is used, if however the annotation does not
    * specify a name the the field or method name is used instead.
    * 
    * @return returns the name that is used for the XML property
    */
   public String getName() {
      return "";
   }
   
   /**
    * This is used to acquire the name of the element or attribute
    * as taken from the annotation. If the element or attribute
    * explicitly specifies a name then that name is used for the
    * XML element or attribute used. If however no overriding name
    * is provided then the method or field is used for the name. 
    * 
    * @return returns the name of the annotation for the contact
    */
   public String getOverride(){
      return contact.toString();
   }
   
   /**
    * This acts as a convenience method used to determine the type of
    * contact this represents. This is used when an object is written
    * to XML. It determines whether a <code>class</code> attribute
    * is required within the serialized XML element, that is, if the
    * class returned by this is different from the actual value of the
    * object to be serialized then that type needs to be remembered.
    *  
    * @return this returns the type of the contact class
    */  
   public Class getType() {
      return type;
   }
   
   /**
    * This is used to determine whether the XML element is required. 
    * This ensures that if an XML element is missing from a document
    * that deserialization can continue. Also, in the process of
    * serialization, if a value is null it does not need to be 
    * written to the resulting XML document.
    * 
    * @return true if the label represents a some required data
    */   
   public boolean isRequired() {
      return label.required();
   }
   
   /**
    * This is used to determine if the <code>Text</code> method or
    * field is to have its value written as a CDATA block. This will
    * set the output node to CDATA mode if this returns true, if it
    * is false data will be written according to an inherited mode.
    * By default inherited mode results in escaped XML text.
    * 
    * @return this returns true if the text is to be a CDATA block
    */
   public boolean isData() {
      return label.data();
   }
   
   /**
    * This is used to determine if the label represents text. If
    * a label represents text it typically does not have a name,
    * instead the empty string represents the name. Also text
    * labels can not exist with other text labels, or elements.
    * 
    * @return this returns true if this label represents text
    */
   public boolean isText() {
      return true;
   }
   
   /**
    * This method is used by the deserialization process to check
    * to see if an annotation is inline or not. If an annotation
    * represents an inline XML entity then the deserialization
    * and serialization process ignores overrides and special 
    * attributes. By default all text entities are inline.
    * 
    * @return this always returns true for text labels
    */
   public boolean isInline() {
      return true;
   }
   
   /**
    * This is used to describe the annotation and method or field
    * that this label represents. This is used to provide error
    * messages that can be used to debug issues that occur when
    * processing a method. This will provide enough information
    * such that the problem can be isolated correctly. 
    * 
    * @return this returns a string representation of the label
    */
   public String toString() {
      return detail.toString();
   }  
}
