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package org.topazproject.mulgara.itql;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;

/**
 * Some XML parsing helpers.
 *
 * @author Ronald Tschalr
 */
class XmlHelper {
    private XmlHelper() {
    }

    /**
     * Helper to parse an XML string into a DOM.
     *
     * @param xml the xml string
     * @return the document
     * @throws AnswerException if an error occured parsing the xml
     */
    public static Document parseXml(String xml) throws AnswerException {
        DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        builderFactory.setIgnoringComments(true);
        builderFactory.setCoalescing(true);

        DocumentBuilder builder;
        try {
            builder = builderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
        } catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {
            throw new RuntimeException(pce); // can this happen?
        }

        try {
            return builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            throw new Error(ioe); // can't happen
        } catch (SAXException se) {
            throw new AnswerException("Unexpected response: '" + xml + "'", se);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Get all immediate element children with the given name. This differs from {@link
     * org.w3c.dom.Element#getElementsByTagName getElementsByTagName} in that this only returns
     * direct children, not all descendents.
     *
     * @param parent    the parent node
     * @param childName the name of the children elements to get; may be null or "*" to indicate all
     *                  element children
     * @return the list of children; may be empty
     */
    public static NodeList getChildren(Element parent, String childName) {
        final NodeList children = parent.getChildNodes();
        final String filter = (childName != null && !childName.equals("*")) ? childName : null;

        return new NodeList() {
            private List elems;

            {
                elems = new ArrayList();
                for (int idx = 0; idx < children.getLength(); idx++) {
                    Node n = children.item(idx);
                    if (n.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE && (filter == null || n.getNodeName().equals(filter)))
                        elems.add(n);
                }
            }

            public Node item(int index) {
                return (Node) elems.get(index);
            }

            public int getLength() {
                return elems.size();
            }
        };
    }

    /**
     * Get a single child element with the given name. If more than one child with the given name
     * exists, a warning is logged.
     *
     * @param parent the parent node
     * @param name   the name of the child element to get; may be null or "*" to indicate any
     *               element child
     * @param log    where to write the warning if more than one child element was found; may be
     *               null to disable the warning
     * @return the child, or null if none was found
     */
    public static Element getOnlyChild(Element parent, String name, Log log) {
        NodeList children = getChildren(parent, name);
        if (children.getLength() == 0)
            return null;
        if (children.getLength() > 1 && log != null)
            log.warn("Expected exactly one child named '" + name + "' of '" + parent.getTagName() + "' but got "
                    + children.getLength());
        return (Element) children.item(0);
    }

    /**
     * Get the first child element with the given name.  This differs from {@link
     * org.w3c.dom.Node#getFirstChild Node.getFirstChild} in that this only returns elements.
     *
     * @param parent the parent node for which to get the first child
     * @param name   the name of the child element to get; may be null or "*" to indicate the
     *               first child element of any name
     * @return the child, or null if none was found
     */
    public static Element getFirstChild(Element parent, String name) {
        final String filter = (name != null && !name.equals("*")) ? name : null;

        for (Node n = parent.getFirstChild(); n != null; n = n.getNextSibling()) {
            if (n.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE && (filter == null || n.getNodeName().equals(filter)))
                return (Element) n;
        }

        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Get the next sibling element with the given name.  This differs from {@link
     * org.w3c.dom.Node#getNextSibling Node.getNextSibling} in that this only returns elements.
     *
     * @param node   the current node for which to get the next sibling
     * @param name   the name of the next sibling element to get; may be null or "*" to indicate the
     *               next sibling of any name
     * @return the sibling, or null if none was found
     */
    public static Element getNextSibling(Element node, String name) {
        final String filter = (name != null && !name.equals("*")) ? name : null;

        for (Node n = node.getNextSibling(); n != null; n = n.getNextSibling()) {
            if (n.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE && (filter == null || n.getNodeName().equals(filter)))
                return (Element) n;
        }

        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Get the text from the given node. This assumes the node contains a single child that is a text
     * node.
     *
     * @param node the node from which to extract the text
     * @return the raw text, or the empty string if the element has no children
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the first child is not a text node
     */
    public static String getText(Node node) throws IllegalArgumentException {
        Node text = node.getFirstChild();
        if (text == null)
            return "";
        if (!(text instanceof Text))
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Expected text, but found node '" + text.getNodeName() + "'");
        return ((Text) text).getData();
    }
}