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 *
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 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *     Nuxeo - initial API and implementation
 *
 * $Id$
 */

package org.eclipse.ecr.core.schema.types;

import org.eclipse.ecr.core.schema.SchemaNames;


/**
 * @author <a href="mailto:bs@nuxeo.com">Bogdan Stefanescu</a>
 *
 */
public final class AnyType extends AbstractType {

    public static final String ID = "any";

    public static final AnyType INSTANCE = new AnyType();

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 8341470958787837560L;

    private AnyType() {
        super(null, SchemaNames.BUILTIN, ID);
    }

    @Override
    public Type getSuperType() {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public Type[] getTypeHierarchy() {
        return EMPTY_SUPERTYPES;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isAnyType() {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean validate(Object object) {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public Object convert(Object object) {
        return object;
    }

    protected Object readResolve() {
        return INSTANCE;
    }

}