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/**
 * Copyright (C) 2010 altuure <altuure [AT] gmail [DOT] com> http://www.altuure.com/projects/yagdao
 *
 * 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 com.altuure.yagdao.common;

import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;

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public class GenericUtils {
    /**
     * Get the Generic definition from a class for given class with given index.
     * @param clz Implementing class
     * @param class1 class with generic definition
     * @param index generic index
     * @return null if not found
     */

    public static Type getGenericDefiniton(Class clz, Class class1, int index) {
        Type[] t = getGenericDefinitons(clz, class1);
        if (t != null && t.length > index)
            return t[index];
        return null;

    }

    /**
     * Get the Generic definitions from a class for given class .
     * @param clz Implementing class
     * @param class1 class with generic definition
     * @return null if not found
     */
    public static Type[] getGenericDefinitons(Class clz, Class class1) {
        Type[] t = null;
        while (clz != null) {

            t = getGenericDefinitonsThis(clz, class1);
            if (t != null)
                return t;
            Class[] interfaces = clz.getInterfaces();
            for (Class class2 : interfaces) {
                t = getGenericDefinitonsThis(class2, class1);
                if (t != null)
                    return t;
            }
            clz = clz.getSuperclass();
        }
        return t;
    }

    /**
     * Get the Generic definitions from a class for given class without looking
     * super classes.
     * @param classFrom Implementing class
     * @param interfaceClz class with generic definition
     * @return null if not found
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static Type[] getGenericDefinitonsThis(Class classFrom, Class interfaceClz) {

        Type[] genericInterfaces = classFrom.getGenericInterfaces();
        for (Type type : genericInterfaces) {
            if (type instanceof ParameterizedType) {
                ParameterizedType pt = (ParameterizedType) type;

                if (interfaceClz.isAssignableFrom((Class) pt.getRawType())) {
                    return pt.getActualTypeArguments();
                }
            }

        }
        // check if it if available on generic super class
        Type genericSuperclass = classFrom.getGenericSuperclass();
        if (genericSuperclass instanceof ParameterizedType) {
            ParameterizedType pt = (ParameterizedType) genericSuperclass;

            if (interfaceClz.equals(pt.getRawType())) {
                return pt.getActualTypeArguments();
            }
        }
        return null;

    }
}