/**
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* detailed in the LICENSE and NOTICE files at the root of the source
* tree and available online at
*
* http://www.dspace.org/license/
*/
package org.dspace.app.webui.components;
import org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils;
import org.dspace.content.Item;
/**
* Basic class for representing the set of items which are recent submissions
* to the archive
*
* @author Richard Jones
*
*/
public class RecentSubmissions
{
/** The set of items being represented */
private Item[] items;
/**
* Construct a new RecentSubmissions object to represent the passed
* array of items
*
* @param items
*/
public RecentSubmissions(Item[] items)
{
this.items = (Item[]) ArrayUtils.clone(items);
}
/**
* obtain the number of recent submissions available
*
* @return the number of items
*/
public int count()
{
return items.length;
}
/**
* Obtain the array of items
*
* @return an array of items
*/
public Item[] getRecentSubmissions()
{
return (Item[])ArrayUtils.clone(items);
}
/**
* Get the item which is in the i'th position. Therefore i = 1 gets the
* most recently submitted item, while i = 3 gets the 3rd most recently
* submitted item
*
* @param i the position of the item to retrieve
* @return the Item
*/
public Item getRecentSubmission(int i)
{
if (i < items.length)
{
return items[i];
}
else
{
return null;
}
}
}