AttributeType.java

/*
 * The Unified Mapping Platform (JUMP) is an extensible, interactive GUI 
 * for visualizing and manipulating spatial features with geometry and attributes.
 *
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package com.vividsolutions.jump.feature;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;

import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Geometry;
import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Point;
import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.PrecisionModel;


/**
 * A type for the attributes of a feature.
 * @see FeatureSchema.
 */
public class AttributeType {
    private static HashMap nameToAttributeTypeMap = new HashMap();
    public static Collection allTypes() {
        return nameToAttributeTypeMap.values();
    }
    /** For strings */
    public final static AttributeType STRING = new AttributeType("STRING", String.class);

    /** For spatial data */
    public final static AttributeType GEOMETRY = new AttributeType("GEOMETRY", Geometry.class);

    /** For long values (64-bit) */
    public final static AttributeType INTEGER = new AttributeType("INTEGER", Integer.class);
    
    public final static AttributeType DATE= new AttributeType("DATE", Date.class);

    //<<TODO:IMPROVE>> If it's a long, perhaps we should name it LONG instead
    //of INTEGER. [Jon Aquino] 
    //Why was it necessary to use long values? [Jon Aquino]

    /** For double-precision values (64-bit) */
    public final static AttributeType DOUBLE = new AttributeType("DOUBLE", Double.class);
            
    public final static AttributeType OBJECT = new AttributeType("OBJECT", Object.class );

    private String name;

    private AttributeType(String name, Class javaClass) {
        this.name = name;
        this.javaClass = javaClass;
        nameToAttributeTypeMap.put(name, this);
    }

    public String toString() {
        return name;
    }

    /**
     * Converts a type name to an AttributeType.
     * @param typename the name of the AttributeType to retrieve
     * @return the corresponding AttributeType
     * @throws InvalidAttributeTypeException if the type name is unrecognized
     */
    public final static AttributeType toAttributeType(String name) {
        AttributeType type = (AttributeType) nameToAttributeTypeMap.get(name);

        if (type == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException();
        }

        return type;
    }
    
	public Class toJavaClass() {
		return javaClass;
	}
	
	private Class javaClass;

    public static AttributeType toAttributeType(Class javaClass) {
        for (Iterator i = allTypes().iterator(); i.hasNext(); ) {
            AttributeType type = (AttributeType) i.next();
            if (type.toJavaClass() == javaClass) {
                return type;
            }
        }
        return null;        
    }
    
}