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/*******************************************************************************
 * This file is part of the Corporate Semantic Web Project at Freie Universitaet Berlin.
 * 
 * This work has been partially supported by the ``InnoProfile-Corporate Semantic Web" project funded by the German Federal
 * Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the BMBF Innovation Initiative for the New German Laender - Entrepreneurial Regions.
 * 
 * http://www.corporate-semantic-web.de/
 * 
 * Freie Universitaet Berlin
 * Copyright (c) 2007-2013
 * 
 * Institut fuer Informatik
 * Working Group Corporate Semantic Web
 * Koenigin-Luise-Strasse 24-26
 * 14195 Berlin
 * 
 * http://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/en/inf/groups/ag-csw/
 * 
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
 * by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
 * or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
 * Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA or see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
 ******************************************************************************/
package de.csw.expertfinder;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.commons.collections.iterators.EmptyIterator;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.OntClass;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.OntModel;

import de.csw.expertfinder.config.Config;
import de.csw.expertfinder.expertise.ExpertiseModel;
import de.csw.expertfinder.ontology.OntologyIndex;

/**
 * This class implements the backend handle for the ExpertFinder application.
 * 
 * This is the single entry point front-ends should have to deal with.
 * 
 * This class is an. For front-end notification, clients can
 * either register one ore more callbacks, or manually poll the backend's state.
 * 
 * @author ralph
 */
public class ExpertFinder {

    private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(ExpertFinder.class);

    private ArrayList<String> topicLabelsSorted;

    /**
     * Returns the singleton instance of this class.
     * 
     * Returns immediately, but initialization happens asynchronically. Thus,
     * clients have to check for the initialization state either by calling
     * {@link #initialized()}, or by callback notification. 
     * 
     * @return
     */
    public ExpertFinder() {
    }

    private static ApplicationState applicationState = ApplicationState.UNINITIALIZED;

    public ApplicationState getApplicationState() {
        return applicationState;
    }

    /**
     * State information, passed to observers.
     * 
     * @author ralph
     */
    public enum ApplicationState {

        UNINITIALIZED("Uninitialized"), INITIZALIZING("Initializing"), INIT_DONE("Initialization complete"), ERROR(
                "An error occured");

        private String message;

        private ApplicationState(String message) {
            this.message = message;
        }

        public String getMessage() {
            return message;
        };
    };

    public void init(final InputStream propertiesIS, final Callback... callbacks) {

        // initialization can take a while, and we do not want the front-end to
        // block
        // or time-out (in case it's a web application).
        new Thread(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {

                // init code here

                try {
                    Config.read(propertiesIS);

                    URL ontologyFileUrl = ExpertFinder.class
                            .getResource(Config.getAppProperty(Config.Key.ONTOLOGY_FILE));
                    OntologyIndex.get().load(ontologyFileUrl);
                } catch (Throwable e) {
                    applicationState = ApplicationState.ERROR;
                    for (Callback callback : callbacks) {
                        callback.notify(ApplicationState.ERROR, e);
                    }
                }

                applicationState = ApplicationState.INIT_DONE;
                for (Callback callback : callbacks) {
                    callback.notify(ApplicationState.INIT_DONE);
                }
            }
        }).start();
    }

    /**
     * Returns an iterator over all super classes of the class specified by the
     * given uri or an empty iterator if no such class exists or if it has no
     * super classes.
     * 
     * @param uri
     * @return an iterator over all super classes of the class specified by the
     *         given uri or an empty iterator if no such class exists or if it
     *         has no super classes.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public Iterator<OntClass> getSuperClasses(String uri) {
        OntModel model = OntologyIndex.get().getModel();
        OntClass clazz = model.getOntClass(uri);
        if (clazz != null) {
            return clazz.listSuperClasses(true);
        }

        return EmptyIterator.INSTANCE;
    }

    /**
     * Returns an iterator over all subclasses of the class specified by the
     * given uri or an empty iterator if no such class exists or if it has no
     * subclasses.
     * 
     * @param uri
     * @return an iterator over all super classes of the class specified by the
     *         given uri or an empty iterator if no such class exists or if it
     *         has no super classes.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public Iterator<OntClass> getSubClasses(String uri) {
        OntModel model = OntologyIndex.get().getModel();
        OntClass clazz = model.getOntClass(uri);
        if (clazz != null) {
            return clazz.listSubClasses(true);
        }

        return EmptyIterator.INSTANCE;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the names of all topics that are covered by the underlying domain model.
     * @return a list containing the names of all topics that are covered by the underlying domain model.
     */
    public List<String> getAvailableTopicLabels() {
        if (applicationState != ApplicationState.INIT_DONE)
            return Collections.EMPTY_LIST;

        if (topicLabelsSorted == null) {
            Set<String> topicLabelsUnsorted = OntologyIndex.get().getAllConceptLabels();
            topicLabelsSorted = new ArrayList<String>(topicLabelsUnsorted.size());
            topicLabelsSorted.addAll(topicLabelsUnsorted);
            Collections.sort(topicLabelsSorted);
        }
        return topicLabelsSorted;
    }

    /**
     * Retrieves a Jena OWL class object for the given label (if there are
     * multiple classes with the same label, this method arbitrarily returns one of them).
     * 
     * @param label A topic name
     * @return
     */
    public OntClass getOntClassForLabel(String label) {
        return OntologyIndex.get().getOntClass(label);
    }

    /**
     * Returns all topics the given author has contributed to.
     * @param authorName
     * @return
     */
    public Set<String> getTopicsForAuthor(String authorName) {
        return ExpertiseModel.get().getTopicsForAuthor(authorName);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the given author's consolidated expertise score for the given
     * topic and similar topics, based on the similarity metric and the
     * similarity threshold value specified in the application's configuration
     * file.
     *
     * @param authorName
     * @param topicName
     * @return
     */
    public double getExpertise(String authorName, String topicName) {
        return ExpertiseModel.get().getExpertiseScore(authorName, topicName);
    }

    /**
     * Calculates the given author's credibility or reputation wrt. the topic
     * represented by the given concept, based on the longevity on his/her
     * contributions to that topic, not including similar topics.
     * 
     * @param authorName
     * @param topicName
     * @return
     */
    public double getReputation(String authorName, String topicName) {
        return ExpertiseModel.get().getCredibility(authorName, topicName);
    }
}