/*
 * Created on Jan 2, 2005 at the Interface Ecology Lab.
 */
package ecologylab.serialization.types.scalar;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import ecologylab.serialization.ScalarUnmarshallingContext;
import ecologylab.serialization.annotations.simpl_inherit;
import ecologylab.serialization.types.CrossLanguageTypeConstants;

/**
 * Type system entry for {@link java.util.Date Date}.
 * 
 * @author Zachary O. Toups (toupsz@cs.tamu.edu)
 */
@simpl_inherit
public class DateType extends ReferenceType<Date> implements CrossLanguageTypeConstants
{
	static final String datePatterns[] = 
	{
		"EEE MMM dd kk:mm:ss zzz yyyy",
		"yyyy:MM:dd HH:mm:ss",
		"yyyy:MM:dd HH:mm",
		"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss",
		"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm",
		"MMM dd, yyyy",
		"yyyyMMdd",
		"MM/dd/yyyy",
		"MM/dd/yyyy K:mm aa",
	};
	static final DateFormat	dateFormats[]			= new DateFormat[datePatterns.length + 1];

	static final DateFormat	plainDf	= DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance();
	
	static
	{
		for (int i=0; i< datePatterns.length; i++)
			dateFormats[i]												= new SimpleDateFormat(datePatterns[i]);
		dateFormats[datePatterns.length]				= plainDf;
	}

	public DateType()
	{
		super(Date.class, JAVA_DATE, DOTNET_DATE, OBJC_DATE, null);
	}

	/**
	 * @param value
	 *          is interpreted as a SimpleDateFormat in the form EEE MMM dd kk:mm:ss zzz yyyy (for
	 *          example Wed Aug 02 13:12:50 CDT 2006); if that does not work, then attempts to use the
	 *          DateFormat for the current locale instead.
	 * 
	 * @see ecologylab.serialization.types.ScalarType#getInstance(java.lang.String, String[],
	 *      ScalarUnmarshallingContext)
	 */
	@Override
	public Date getInstance(String value, String[] formatStrings,
			ScalarUnmarshallingContext scalarUnmarshallingContext)
	{
		for (DateFormat dateFormatParser: dateFormats)
		{
      try 
      {
        return dateFormatParser.parse(value);
      } catch (java.text.ParseException ex) 
      {
      	// simply try the next pattern
      }
      if (formatStrings != null)
      	for (String thatFormat: formatStrings)
      	{
          try 
          {
            return new SimpleDateFormat(thatFormat).parse(value);
          } catch (java.text.ParseException ex) 
          {
          	// simply try the next pattern
          }
      		
      	}
 		}
		error("Failed to parse date: " + value);
		return null;
	}
}