/**
* eAdventure (formerly <e-Adventure> and <e-Game>) is a research project of the
* <e-UCM> research group.
*
* Copyright 2005-2010 <e-UCM> research group.
*
* You can access a list of all the contributors to eAdventure at:
* http://e-adventure.e-ucm.es/contributors
*
* <e-UCM> is a research group of the Department of Software Engineering
* and Artificial Intelligence at the Complutense University of Madrid
* (School of Computer Science).
*
* C Profesor Jose Garcia Santesmases sn,
* 28040 Madrid (Madrid), Spain.
*
* For more info please visit: <http://e-adventure.e-ucm.es> or
* <http://www.e-ucm.es>
*
* ****************************************************************************
*
* This file is part of eAdventure, version 2.0
*
* eAdventure 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.
*
* eAdventure 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 eAdventure. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package es.eucm.ead.writer.model.writers;
import es.eucm.ead.tools.xml.XMLNode;
public interface WriterContext {
/**
* An id for the context
* @return
*/
int getContextId();
/**
* Generates a new id, valid for this context
* @return
*/
String generateNewId();
/**
* Returns if the given id has already been processed by this context
* @param id
* @return
*/
boolean containsId(String id);
/**
* Translate the class to a symbolic string
* @param type
* @return
*/
String translateClass(Class<?> type);
/**
* Translates the field to a symbolic string
* @param name
* @return
*/
String translateField(String name);
/**
* Translates the param to a symbolic string
* @param param
* @return
*/
String translateParam(String param);
/**
* Process the object that is going to be written. This method can be used to analyze de model from the context,
* since ALL objects in the model pass over here.
*
* @param object
* @param node
*/
Object process(Object object, XMLNode node);
}