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package org.apache.geode.cache.query.internal;

import java.io.*;
import org.apache.geode.cache.query.QueryService;
import org.apache.geode.internal.DataSerializableFixedID;
import org.apache.geode.internal.Version;

/**
 * An UNDEFINED value is the result of accessing an attribute of a null-valued attribute. If you
 * access an attribute that has an explicit value of null, then it is not undefined. For example, if
 * a query accesses the attribute address.city and address is null, then the result is undefined. If
 * the query accesses address, then the result is not undefined, it is null.
 * 
 * @version $Revision: 1.1 $
 * 
 */

public final class Undefined implements DataSerializableFixedID, Comparable, Serializable {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = 6643107525908324141L;

  public Undefined() {
    Support.assertState(QueryService.UNDEFINED == null, "UNDEFINED constant already instantiated");

    // org.apache.persistence.CanonicalizationHelper
    // .putCanonicalObj("com/gemstone/persistence/query/QueryService.UNDEFINED",
    // this);
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return "UNDEFINED";
  }

  public int getDSFID() {
    return UNDEFINED;
  }

  public void fromData(DataInput in) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
    // Serialized simply as a one-byte class id, as a class well known to
    // DataSerializer
  }

  public void toData(DataOutput out) throws IOException {}

  @Override
  public int compareTo(Object o) {
    // An Undefined is equal to other Undefined and less than any other object
    if (o instanceof Undefined) {
      return 0;
    } else {
      return -1;
    }
  }

  @Override
  public boolean equals(Object o) {
    return (o instanceof Undefined);
  }

  @Override
  public Version[] getSerializationVersions() {
    return null;
  }

}