GDTProtokollFactory.java

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2011-2016 Medevit OG, Medelexis AG
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     Marco Descher, initial API and implementaion
 *     Lucia Amman, bug fixes and improvements
 * Sponsors: M. + P. Richter
 *******************************************************************************/
package at.medevit.elexis.gdt.data;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;

import ch.elexis.data.PersistentObject;
import ch.elexis.data.PersistentObjectFactory;

public class GDTProtokollFactory extends PersistentObjectFactory {
	
	public PersistentObject createFromString(String code){
		try {
			String[] ci = code.split("::"); //$NON-NLS-1$
			Class<?> clazz = Class.forName(ci[0]);
			Method load = clazz.getMethod("load", new Class[] { String.class}); //$NON-NLS-1$
			return (PersistentObject) (load.invoke(null, new Object[] {
				ci[1]
			}));
		} catch (Exception ex) {
			// If we can not create the object, we can just return null, so the
			// framwerk will try
			// the following PersistenObjectFactory
			return null;
		}
	}
	
	/**
	 * ¨ create a template of an instance of a given class. A template is an instance that is not
	 * stored in the database.
	 */
	@Override
	public PersistentObject doCreateTemplate(Class typ){
		try {
			return (PersistentObject) typ.newInstance();
		} catch (Exception ex) {
			// ExHandler.handle(ex);
			return null;
		}
	}
	
	/**
	 * Return an instance of a class managed by the plug-in as described by
	 * {@link PersistentObject}.storeToString. This can be used to create an
	 * instance of {@link ch.elexis.data.Query} without direct access to the
	 * respective data type.
	 * 
	 * @param fullyQualifiedClassName the first part of a {@link PersistentObject}.storeToString() representation<br>
	 * e.g. {@code ch.elexis.data.Eigenartikel[::ID]}
	 * @return a class object of the referenced data type
	 */
	@Override
	public Class getClassforName(String fullyQualifiedClassName) {
		Class ret = null;
		try {
			ret = Class.forName(fullyQualifiedClassName);
			return ret;
		} catch ( ClassNotFoundException e ) {
			return ret;
		}
	}
	
}