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/* 
@VaadinApache2LicenseForJavaFiles@
 */

package com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.ui;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;

import com.google.gwt.core.client.Scheduler;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.Command;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.DOM;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.Element;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.Event;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.HasWidgets;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.KeyboardListener;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.KeyboardListenerCollection;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Widget;
import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.ApplicationConnection;
import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.BrowserInfo;
import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.Container;
import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.Paintable;
import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.UIDL;
import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.Util;
import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.ui.richtextarea.VRichTextArea;

/**
 * A helper class to implement keyboard shorcut handling. Keeps a list of owners
 * actions and fires actions to server. User class needs to delegate keyboard
 * events to handleKeyboardEvents function.
 * 
 * @author Vaadin Ltd
 */
public class ShortcutActionHandler {

    /**
     * An interface implemented by those users (most often {@link Container}s,
     * but HasWidgets at least) of this helper class that want to support
     * special components like {@link VRichTextArea} that don't properly
     * propagate key down events. Those components can build support for
     * shortcut actions by traversing the closest
     * {@link ShortcutActionHandlerOwner} from the component hierarchy an
     * passing keydown events to {@link ShortcutActionHandler}.
     */
    public interface ShortcutActionHandlerOwner extends HasWidgets {

        /**
         * Returns the ShortCutActionHandler currently used or null if there is
         * currently no shortcutactionhandler
         */
        ShortcutActionHandler getShortcutActionHandler();
    }

    /**
     * A focusable {@link Paintable} implementing this interface will be
     * notified before shortcut actions are handled if it will be the target of
     * the action (most commonly means it is the focused component during the
     * keyboard combination is triggered by the user).
     */
    public interface BeforeShortcutActionListener extends Paintable {
        /**
         * This method is called by ShortcutActionHandler before firing the
         * shortcut if the Paintable is currently focused (aka the target of the
         * shortcut action). Eg. a field can update its possibly changed value
         * to the server before shortcut action is fired.
         * 
         * @param e
         *            the event that triggered the shortcut action
         */
        public void onBeforeShortcutAction(Event e);
    }

    private final ArrayList<ShortcutAction> actions = new ArrayList<ShortcutAction>();
    private ApplicationConnection client;
    private String paintableId;

    /**
     * 
     * @param pid
     *            Paintable id
     * @param c
     *            reference to application connections
     */
    public ShortcutActionHandler(String pid, ApplicationConnection c) {
        paintableId = pid;
        client = c;
    }

    /**
     * Updates list of actions this handler listens to.
     * 
     * @param c
     *            UIDL snippet containing actions
     */
    public void updateActionMap(UIDL c) {
        actions.clear();
        final Iterator<?> it = c.getChildIterator();
        while (it.hasNext()) {
            final UIDL action = (UIDL) it.next();

            int[] modifiers = null;
            if (action.hasAttribute("mk")) {
                modifiers = action.getIntArrayAttribute("mk");
            }

            final ShortcutKeyCombination kc = new ShortcutKeyCombination(action.getIntAttribute("kc"), modifiers);
            final String key = action.getStringAttribute("key");
            final String caption = action.getStringAttribute("caption");
            actions.add(new ShortcutAction(key, kc, caption));
        }
    }

    public void handleKeyboardEvent(final Event event, Paintable target) {
        final int modifiers = KeyboardListenerCollection.getKeyboardModifiers(event);
        final char keyCode = (char) DOM.eventGetKeyCode(event);
        final ShortcutKeyCombination kc = new ShortcutKeyCombination(keyCode, modifiers);
        final Iterator<ShortcutAction> it = actions.iterator();
        while (it.hasNext()) {
            final ShortcutAction a = it.next();
            if (a.getShortcutCombination().equals(kc)) {
                fireAction(event, a, target);
                break;
            }
        }

    }

    public void handleKeyboardEvent(final Event event) {
        handleKeyboardEvent(event, null);
    }

    private void fireAction(final Event event, final ShortcutAction a, Paintable target) {
        final Element et = DOM.eventGetTarget(event);
        if (target == null) {
            Widget w = Util.findWidget(et, null);
            while (w != null && !(w instanceof Paintable)) {
                w = w.getParent();
            }
            target = (Paintable) w;
        }
        final Paintable finalTarget = target;

        event.preventDefault();

        /*
         * The target component might have unpublished changes, try to
         * synchronize them before firing shortcut action.
         */
        if (finalTarget instanceof BeforeShortcutActionListener) {
            ((BeforeShortcutActionListener) finalTarget).onBeforeShortcutAction(event);
        } else {
            shakeTarget(et);
            Scheduler.get().scheduleDeferred(new Command() {
                public void execute() {
                    shakeTarget(et);
                }
            });
        }

        Scheduler.get().scheduleDeferred(new Command() {
            public void execute() {
                if (finalTarget != null) {
                    client.updateVariable(paintableId, "actiontarget", finalTarget, false);
                }
                client.updateVariable(paintableId, "action", a.getKey(), true);
            }
        });
    }

    /**
     * We try to fire value change in the component the key combination was
     * typed. Eg. textfield may contain newly typed text that is expected to be
     * sent to server. This is done by removing focus and then returning it
     * immediately back to target element.
     * <p>
     * This is practically a hack and should be replaced with an interface
     * {@link BeforeShortcutActionListener} via widgets could be notified when
     * they should fire value change. Big task for TextFields, DateFields and
     * various selects.
     * 
     * <p>
     * TODO separate opera impl with generator
     */
    private static void shakeTarget(final Element e) {
        blur(e);
        if (BrowserInfo.get().isOpera()) {
            // will mess up with focus and blur event if the focus is not
            // deferred. Will cause a small flickering, so not doing it for all
            // browsers.
            Scheduler.get().scheduleDeferred(new Command() {
                public void execute() {
                    focus(e);
                }
            });
        } else {
            focus(e);
        }
    }

    private static native void blur(Element e)
    /*-{
    if(e.blur) {
        e.blur();
       }
    }-*/;

    private static native void focus(Element e)
    /*-{
    if(e.blur) {
        e.focus();
       }
    }-*/;

}

class ShortcutKeyCombination {

    public static final int SHIFT = 16;
    public static final int CTRL = 17;
    public static final int ALT = 18;
    public static final int META = 91;

    char keyCode = 0;
    private int modifiersMask;

    public ShortcutKeyCombination() {
    }

    ShortcutKeyCombination(char kc, int modifierMask) {
        keyCode = kc;
        modifiersMask = modifierMask;
    }

    ShortcutKeyCombination(int kc, int[] modifiers) {
        keyCode = (char) kc;

        modifiersMask = 0;
        if (modifiers != null) {
            for (int i = 0; i < modifiers.length; i++) {
                switch (modifiers[i]) {
                case ALT:
                    modifiersMask = modifiersMask | KeyboardListener.MODIFIER_ALT;
                    break;
                case CTRL:
                    modifiersMask = modifiersMask | KeyboardListener.MODIFIER_CTRL;
                    break;
                case SHIFT:
                    modifiersMask = modifiersMask | KeyboardListener.MODIFIER_SHIFT;
                    break;
                case META:
                    modifiersMask = modifiersMask | KeyboardListener.MODIFIER_META;
                    break;
                default:
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    public boolean equals(ShortcutKeyCombination other) {
        if (keyCode == other.keyCode && modifiersMask == other.modifiersMask) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

class ShortcutAction {

    private final ShortcutKeyCombination sc;
    private final String caption;
    private final String key;

    public ShortcutAction(String key, ShortcutKeyCombination sc, String caption) {
        this.sc = sc;
        this.key = key;
        this.caption = caption;
    }

    public ShortcutKeyCombination getShortcutCombination() {
        return sc;
    }

    public String getCaption() {
        return caption;
    }

    public String getKey() {
        return key;
    }

}