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/* OpenType.java -- Superclass of all open types.
   Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This file is part of GNU Classpath.

GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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package javax.management.openmbean;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * The superclass of all open types, which describe the
 * applicable data values for open MBeans.  An open type
 * is defined by its name and description, and the name
 * of the Java class it maps to.
 * 
 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org)
 * @since 1.5
 */
public abstract class OpenType
  implements Serializable
{

  /**
   * Compatible with JDK 1.5
   */
  private static final long serialVersionUID = -9195195325186646468L;

  /**
   * The name of the Java class this type represents.
   */
  private String className;

  /**
   * The name of this type.
   */
  private String typeName;

  /**
   * A description of this type.
   */
  private String description;

  /**
   * An array which defines the set of Java types which can be
   * used as open types.  Note that each type is also available
   * in array form, possibly with multiple dimensions.
   */
  public static final String[] ALLOWED_CLASSNAMES = {
    "java.lang.Void",
    "java.lang.Boolean",
    "java.lang.Character",
    "java.lang.Byte",
    "java.lang.Short",
    "java.lang.Integer",
    "java.lang.Long",
    "java.lang.Float",
    "java.lang.Double",
    "java.lang.String",
    "java.math.BigDecimal",
    "java.math.BigInteger",
    "java.util.Date",
    "javax.management.ObjectName",
    CompositeData.class.getName(),
    TabularData.class.getName() 
  };

  /**
   * Constructs a new {@link OpenType} for the specified class
   * with the given name and description.  The name of the class
   * must be taken from the list of {@link ALLOWED_CLASSNAMES}.
   * Arrays are implictly included in this, and follow the usual
   * syntax of {@link java.lang.Class#getName()} with the name
   * preceded by n instances of '[' (where n is the number of
   * dimensions) and an L.  The name and description can not be
   * <code>null</code> or the empty string.
   *
   * @param className the name of the Java class this type
   *                  represents.
   * @param name the name of the type.
   * @param desc the description of the type.
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if either of <code>name</code>
   *                                  or <code>desc</code> are
   *                                  <code>null</code> or the empty
   *                                  string.
   * @throws OpenDataException if the class name does not reference
   *                           a listed class (from @{link ALLOWED_CLASSNAMES})
   */
  protected OpenType(String className, String name, String desc)
    throws OpenDataException
  {
    if (name == null || name.equals(""))
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("The name can not be null " +
					 "or the empty string.");
    if (desc == null || desc.equals(""))
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("The description can not " +
					 "be null or the empty string.");
    String testString;
    if (className.startsWith("["))
      testString = className.substring(className.indexOf("L") + 1);
    else
      testString = className;
    boolean openTypeFound = false;
    for (int a = 0; a < ALLOWED_CLASSNAMES.length; ++a)
      if (ALLOWED_CLASSNAMES[a].equals(testString))
	openTypeFound = true;
    if (!openTypeFound)
      throw new OpenDataException("The class name, " + testString + 
				  ", does not specify a valid open type.");
    this.className = className;
    typeName = name;
    description = desc;
  }

  /**
   * Performs an equality test on this object and the one specified.
   *
   * @param obj the object to test against this one.
   * @return true if the two objects are equivalent.
   * @see java.lang.Object#hashCode()
   */
  public abstract boolean equals(Object obj);

  /**
   * Returns the name of the Java class this type represents.  This must
   * be one of the {@link ALLOWED_CLASSNAMES} or an array of one of them.
   * The specification of arrays follows the standard set by 
   * {@link java.lang.Class#getName()} i.e. the name is the class name
   * preceded by n instances of '[' and an 'L', where n is number of
   * dimensions used by the array.
   *
   * @return the class name.
   */
  public String getClassName()
  {
    return className;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a description of this open type.
   *
   * @return the description.
   */
  public String getDescription()
  {
    return description;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the name of this open type.
   *
   * @return the type name.
   */
  public String getTypeName()
  {
    return typeName;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a hash code for this open type.  The hash code
   * should be consistent with the {@link equals()} method.
   * Thus, it should continue to return the same value while
   * the values used by the {@link equals()} method remain
   * the same, and should return different hash codes for
   * objects which are judged to be different using the
   * {@link equals()} method.
   *
   * @return the hash code of this instance.
   */
  public abstract int hashCode();

  /**
   * Returns true if this open type represents an array type.
   *
   * @return true if this open type represents an array type.
   */
  public boolean isArray()
  {
    return className.startsWith("[");
  }

  /**
   * Returns true if the specified object is a member of this
   * type.
   *
   * @param obj the object to test for membership.
   * @return true if the object is a member of this type.
   */
  public abstract boolean isValue(Object obj);

  /**
   * Returns a textual representation of this type.
   *
   * @return a {@link java.lang.String} representation of this
   *         type.
   */
  public abstract String toString();

}