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/*
 * $Id: BeanContext.java,v 1.5 2002/06/06 15:02:07 valis Exp $
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package org.openlaszlo.iv.flash.context;

import org.apache.commons.jexl.Expression;
import org.apache.commons.jexl.ExpressionFactory;
import org.apache.commons.jexl.context.HashMapContext;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ListIterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * A Context that provides access to a graph of objects (beans and collections)
 * using Jexl (JSTL expression language + extenstions) syntax.
 *
 * Unlike the other contexts in JGen, this is not easily creatable from a
 * datasource, and is intended to be used where JGen is embedded in another
 * framework.
 *
 * @author <a href="james@jamestaylor.org">James Taylor</a>
 */
public class BeanContext extends GraphContext implements Map {
    /** Key used to store root object when building a context for a list item */
    public static final String ROOT_ITEM_KEY = "root";

    /** The JexlContext */
    private HashMapContext jexlContext = new HashMapContext();

    /**
     * Creates empty context.
     */
    public BeanContext() {
    }

    /**
     * Creates context from specified hashtable.
     *
     * @param context parent context
     * @param values Map of initial values to populate context with
     */
    public BeanContext(Context context, Map values) {
        setParent(context);

        if (values != null) {
            this.jexlContext.setVars(values);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Tries to resolve given string in this context as XPath expression,
     * using JPath. If the XPath expression selects an object, the result
     * of evaluating its 'toString' method is returned, otherwise the path
     * is passed along to the parent context (if defined).
     *
     * @param path XPath/JPath expression
     *
     * @return String representation of result of xpath execution or result
     *         from the parent or null
     */

    public String getValue(String path) {
        // Evaluate path against our context

        Object o = evaluatePath(path);

        // If o is null, that indicates that the path expression did not
        // select an object in the context. This is perfectly acceptable,
        // and we pass the path to the parent context.

        if (o == null) {
            return getValueFromParent(path);
        }

        // If o was not null, we return it's string representation, which is
        // hopefully something meaningfull. But even if it is not the default
        // implementation of Object.toString() should give a value which will
        // allow the user to see that something is wrong with the path or
        // context.

        else {
            return o.toString();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Tries to resolve given string in this context as Jexl expression.
     * If the path expression evaluates to a non-empty list, a list of contexts
     * corresponding to each value in that list will be returned. Otherwise
     * the path is passed to the parent context. If there is no parent
     * context, null is returned.
     *
     * The wrapping contexts will have the single element 'root' which is the
     * object selected as a list item.
     *
     * @param path Jexl expression
     *
     * @return List of objects (wrapped in BeanContext) selected by path or
     *         result from the parent or null
     */
    public List getValueList(String path) {
        // Evaluate path against our context

        Object o = evaluatePath(path);

        // If o is null, that indicates that the path expression did not
        // select an object in the context. This is perfectly acceptable,
        // and we pass the path to the parent context.

        if (o == null) {
            return getValueListFromParent(path);
        }

        // If o is a list, we build a list of contexts for each object it
        // contains. If o is a single object we'll just build a context list
        // with one item.

        ArrayList contextList = new ArrayList();

        if (o instanceof List) {
            ListIterator iter = ((List) o).listIterator();

            while (iter.hasNext()) {
                addToContextList(iter.next(), contextList);
            }
        } else {
            addToContextList(o, contextList);
        }

        return contextList;
    }

    /**
     * Build a BeanContext around and object and add it to the provided list.
     *
     * @param o Object to add
     * @param contextList List to add context to
     */
    private void addToContextList(Object o, List contextList) {
        BeanContext newContext = new BeanContext(this, null);

        newContext.put(ROOT_ITEM_KEY, o);

        contextList.add(newContext);
    }

    /**
     * Evaluate a path as a Jexl expression on the contained context.
     *
     * @param path Expression to evaluate
     * @return Object if found or null
     */
    private Object evaluatePath(String path) {
        try {
            // Parse the path into a Jexl Expression

            Expression expr = ExpressionFactory.createExpression(path);

            // Execute the expression against our context

            Object o = expr.evaluate(jexlContext);

            return o;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // Expression could not be parsed or evaluated as Jexl, so return
            // null which will cause the path to be passed up to that parent

            return null;
        }
    }

    // ------------------------------ interface Map, delegate to HashMapContext

    public int size() {
        return jexlContext.size();
    }

    public boolean isEmpty() {
        return jexlContext.isEmpty();
    }

    public boolean containsKey(Object key) {
        return jexlContext.containsKey(key);
    }

    public boolean containsValue(Object value) {
        return jexlContext.containsValue(value);
    }

    public Object get(Object key) {
        return jexlContext.get(key);
    }

    public Object put(Object key, Object value) {
        return jexlContext.put(key, value);
    }

    public Object remove(Object key) {
        return jexlContext.remove(key);
    }

    public void putAll(Map t) {
        jexlContext.putAll(t);
    }

    public void clear() {
        jexlContext.clear();
    }

    public Set keySet() {
        return jexlContext.keySet();
    }

    public Collection values() {
        return jexlContext.values();
    }

    public Set entrySet() {
        return jexlContext.entrySet();
    }

    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        return jexlContext.equals(o);
    }

    public int hashCode() {
        return jexlContext.hashCode();
    }

}