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 *    GeoTools - The Open Source Java GIS Toolkit
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 * 
 *    (C) 2010-2011, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
 *
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package org.geotools.filter.expression;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import org.geotools.data.complex.ComplexFeatureConstants;
import org.geotools.factory.Hints;
import org.geotools.filter.capability.FunctionNameImpl;
import org.opengis.filter.capability.FunctionName;
import org.opengis.filter.expression.Expression;
import org.opengis.filter.expression.ExpressionVisitor;
import org.opengis.filter.expression.Function;
import org.opengis.filter.expression.Literal;

/**
 * This function redirects an attribute to be encoded as xlink:href, instead of being encoded as a
 * full attribute. This is useful in polymorphism, where static client property cannot be used when
 * the encoding is conditional. This function expects:
 * <ol>
 * <li>Expression: REFERENCE_VALUE (could be another function or literal)
 * </ol>
 * 
 * @author Rini Angreani (CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering)
 * 
 *
 *
 * @source $URL$
 */
public class ToXlinkHrefFunction implements Function {

    public static final FunctionName NAME = new FunctionNameImpl("toXlinkHref", "REFERENCE_VALUE");

    private final List<Expression> parameters;

    private final Literal fallback;

    public ToXlinkHrefFunction() {
        this(new ArrayList<Expression>(), null);
    }

    public ToXlinkHrefFunction(List<Expression> parameters, Literal fallback) {
        this.parameters = parameters;
        this.fallback = fallback;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return NAME.getName();
    }
    public FunctionName getFunctionName() {
        return NAME;
    }
    public List<Expression> getParameters() {
        return Collections.unmodifiableList(parameters);
    }

    public Literal getFallbackValue() {
        return fallback;
    }

    public Object accept(ExpressionVisitor visitor, Object extraData) {
        return visitor.visit(this, extraData);
    }

    public Object evaluate(Object object) {
        return evaluate(object, Hints.class);
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public <T> T evaluate(Object object, Class<T> context) {
        return (T) new Hints(ComplexFeatureConstants.STRING_KEY, parameters.get(0).evaluate(object,
                String.class));
    }

}