/*
 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
 *
 * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
 * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
 */
package org.hibernate.engine.jdbc;

import java.io.Reader;
import java.lang.reflect.Proxy;
import java.sql.NClob;

/**
 * Manages aspects of proxying java.sql.NClobs for non-contextual creation, including proxy creation and
 * handling proxy invocations.  We use proxies here solely to avoid JDBC version incompatibilities.
 * <p/>
 * Generated proxies are typed as {@link java.sql.Clob} (java.sql.NClob extends {@link java.sql.Clob})
 * and in JDK 1.6+ environments, they are also typed to java.sql.NClob
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public class NClobProxy extends ClobProxy {
	/**
	 * The interfaces used to generate the proxy
	 */
	public static final Class[] PROXY_INTERFACES = new Class[] { NClob.class, NClobImplementer.class };

	protected NClobProxy(String string) {
		super( string );
	}

	protected NClobProxy(Reader reader, long length) {
		super( reader, length );
	}

	/**
	 * Generates a {@link java.sql.Clob} proxy using the string data.
	 *
	 * @param string The data to be wrapped as a {@link java.sql.Clob}.
	 *
	 * @return The generated proxy.
	 */
	public static NClob generateProxy(String string) {
		return (NClob) Proxy.newProxyInstance( getProxyClassLoader(), PROXY_INTERFACES, new ClobProxy( string ) );
	}

	/**
	 * Generates a {@link java.sql.NClob} proxy using a character reader of given length.
	 *
	 * @param reader The character reader
	 * @param length The length of the character reader
	 *
	 * @return The generated proxy.
	 */
	public static NClob generateProxy(Reader reader, long length) {
		return (NClob) Proxy.newProxyInstance( getProxyClassLoader(), PROXY_INTERFACES, new ClobProxy( reader, length ) );
	}

	/**
	 * Determines the appropriate class loader to which the generated proxy
	 * should be scoped.
	 *
	 * @return The class loader appropriate for proxy construction.
	 */
	protected static ClassLoader getProxyClassLoader() {
		return NClobImplementer.class.getClassLoader();
	}
}