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package org.apache.cayenne.reflect;

/**
 * An accessor for fields storing embedded objects. This accessor will initialize null
 * fields with appropriate embeddable objects when needed during get and set calls.
 * 
 * @since 3.0
 */
public class EmbeddedFieldAccessor implements Accessor {

    protected String propertyPath;
    protected Accessor embeddedAccessor;
    protected Accessor embeddableAccessor;
    protected EmbeddableDescriptor embeddableDescriptor;

    public EmbeddedFieldAccessor(EmbeddableDescriptor embeddableDescriptor,
            Accessor embeddedAccessor, Accessor embeddableAccessor) {
        this.propertyPath = embeddedAccessor.getName()
                + "."
                + embeddableAccessor.getName();
        this.embeddableDescriptor = embeddableDescriptor;
        this.embeddableAccessor = embeddableAccessor;
        this.embeddedAccessor = embeddedAccessor;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return propertyPath;
    }

    public Object getValue(Object object) throws PropertyException {
        return embeddableAccessor.getValue(getEmbeddable(object));
    }

    public void setValue(Object object, Object newValue) throws PropertyException {
        embeddableAccessor.setValue(getEmbeddable(object), newValue);
    }

    /**
     * Returns an embeddable object for the owner object, initializing embeddable if it is
     * null. Currently supports only one level of embedding.
     */
    protected Object getEmbeddable(Object owner) {
        Object embeddable = embeddedAccessor.getValue(owner);
        if (embeddable == null) {
            embeddable = embeddableDescriptor.createObject(owner, embeddedAccessor
                    .getName());
            embeddedAccessor.setValue(owner, embeddable);
        }

        return embeddable;
    }
}