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package org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Writer;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils;

/**
 * Executes a sequence of translators one after the other. Execution ends whenever 
 * the first translator consumes codepoints from the input.
 * 
 * @since 3.0
 * @version $Id: AggregateTranslator.java 1088899 2011-04-05 05:31:27Z bayard $
 */
public class AggregateTranslator extends CharSequenceTranslator {

    private final CharSequenceTranslator[] translators;

    /**
     * Specify the translators to be used at creation time. 
     *
     * @param translators CharSequenceTranslator array to aggregate
     */
    public AggregateTranslator(CharSequenceTranslator... translators) {
        this.translators = ArrayUtils.clone(translators);
    }

    /**
     * The first translator to consume codepoints from the input is the 'winner'. 
     * Execution stops with the number of consumed codepoints being returned. 
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public int translate(CharSequence input, int index, Writer out) throws IOException {
        for (CharSequenceTranslator translator : translators) {
            int consumed = translator.translate(input, index, out);
            if(consumed != 0) {
                return consumed;
            }
        }
        return 0;
    }

}