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package java.beans;


/**
 * PropertyEditorSupport helps with PropertyEditors,
 * implementing base functionality that they usually must
 * have but which is a pain to implement.  You may extend
 * from this class or use it as a standalone.<P>
 *
 * This class does not do any painting or actual editing.
 * For that, you must use or extend it.  See the
 * PropertyEditor class for better descriptions of what
 * the various methods do.
 *
 * @author John Keiser
 * @author Robert Schuster
 * @since 1.1
 * @status updated to 1.5
 */
public class PropertyEditorSupport implements PropertyEditor
{
  Object eventSource;
  Object value;
  PropertyChangeSupport pSupport;

  /** Call this constructor when you are deriving from
   * PropertyEditorSupport.
   *
   * Using this constructor the event source is this PropertyEditorSupport
   * instance itself.
   *
   * @since 1.5
   * @specnote this was <code>protected</code> prior to 1.5
   */
  public PropertyEditorSupport()
  {
    eventSource = this;
    pSupport = new PropertyChangeSupport(this);
  }

  /** Call this constructor when you are using
   * PropertyEditorSupport as a helper object.
   *
   * This constructor throws a NullPointerException when <code>source</code> is <code>null</code>,
   * for compatibility reasons with J2SDK 1.5.0 .
   *
   * @param source The source to use when firing
   * property change events.
   * @since 1.5
   * @specnote this was <code>protected</code> prior to 1.5
   */
  public PropertyEditorSupport(Object source)
  {
    // note: constructor rejects source being null for the sake of compatibility
    // with official 1.5.0 implementation
    if (source == null)
      throw new NullPointerException("Event source must not be null.");

    eventSource = source;
    pSupport = new PropertyChangeSupport(eventSource);
  }

  /** Sets the current value of the property and a property change
   * event is fired to all registered PropertyChangeListener instances.
   *
   * @param newValue The new value for the property.
   */
  public void setValue(Object newValue)
  {
    value = newValue;

    // specification in java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent says
    // that without a property name (first argument) the
    // new and the old value should always be null
    pSupport.firePropertyChange(null, null, null);
  }

  /** Gets the current value of the property.
   *
   * @return the current value of the property.
   */
  public Object getValue()
  {
    return value;
  }

  /** Gets whether this object is paintable or not.
   *
   * @return <CODE>false</CODE>
   */
  public boolean isPaintable()
  {
    return false;
  }

  /** Paints this object.  This class does nothing in
   * this method.
   */
  public void paintValue(java.awt.Graphics g, java.awt.Rectangle r)
  {
  }

  /** Gets the Java initialization String for the current
   * value of the Object.  This class returns gibberish or
   * null (though the spec does not say which).<P>
   * <STRONG>Implementation Note:</STRONG> This class
   * returns the string "@$#^" to make sure the code will
   * be broken, so that you will know to override it when
   * you create your own property editor.
   *
   * @return the Java initialization string.
   */
  public String getJavaInitializationString()
  {
    return "@$#^";
  }

  /** Gets the value as text.
   * In this class, you cannot count on getAsText() doing
   * anything useful, although in this implementation I
   * do toString().
   *
   * @return the value as text.
   */
  public String getAsText()
  {
    return value != null ? value.toString() : "null";
  }

  /** Sets the value as text.
   * In this class, you cannot count on setAsText() doing
   * anything useful across implementations.
   * <STRONG>Implementation Note:</STRONG> In this
   * implementation it checks if the String is "null", and
   * if it is, sets the value to null, otherwise it throws
   * an IllegalArgumentException.
   *
   * @param s the text to convert to a new value.
   * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the text is
   * malformed.
   */
  public void setAsText(String s) throws IllegalArgumentException
  {
    if (s.equals("null"))
      setValue(null);
    else
      throw new IllegalArgumentException();
  }

  /** Returns a list of possible choices for the value.
   *
   * @return <CODE>null</CODE>
   */
  public String[] getTags()
  {
    return null;
  }

  /** Returns a custom component to edit the value.
   *
   * @return <CODE>null</CODE> in this class.
   */
  public java.awt.Component getCustomEditor()
  {
    return null;
  }

  /** Finds out whether this property editor supports a
   * custom component to edit its value.
   *
   * @return <CODE>false</CODE> in this class.
   */
  public boolean supportsCustomEditor()
  {
    return false;
  }

  /** Adds a property change listener to this property editor.
   *
   * @param l the listener to add.
   */
  public void addPropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener l)
  {
    pSupport.addPropertyChangeListener(l);
  }

  /** Removes a property change listener from this property editor.
   *
   * @param l the listener to remove.
   */
  public void removePropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener l)
  {
    pSupport.removePropertyChangeListener(l);
  }

  /** Notifies people that we've changed, although we don't
   * tell them just how.
   */
  public void firePropertyChange()
  {
    pSupport.firePropertyChange(null, null, null);
  }

  /** Returns the bean that is used as the source of events.
   *
   * @return The event source object
   * @since 1.5
   */
  public Object getSource()
  {
    return eventSource;
  }

  /** Sets the bean that is used as the source of events
   * when property changes occur.
   *
   * The event source bean is for informational purposes only
   * and should not be changed by the <code>PropertyEditor</code>.
   *
   * @param source
   * @since 1.5
   */
  public void setSource(Object source)
  {
    eventSource = source;
  }
}