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/* Root.java -- The root of an object tree.
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package gnu.java.beans.encoder;

import java.beans.XMLEncoder;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Stack;

import gnu.java.beans.encoder.elements.Element;

/** <p><code>Root</code> provides a simple interface to a tree of
 * objects.</p>
 * 
 * <p>Using an instance of this class a logical representation of
 * the real object tree that is serialized can be built. When the
 * actual data should be written as XML <code>Root</code> and
 * {@link gnu.java.beans.encoder.elements.Element} class can provide
 * context information which is used to write the best fitting
 * XML representation.</p>
 *   
 * @author Robert Schuster (robertschuster@fsfe.org)
 */
public class Root
{
  private Stack parents = new Stack();

  private Element rootElement, current;
  
  private boolean started;

  public Root()
  {
    rootElement = current = new RootElement();
  }

  /** <p>Adds another child element to the tree.</p>
   * 
   * <p>The new element automatically becomes the current
   * element.</p>
   * 
   * @param elem The new child element.
   */
  public void addChild(Element elem)
  {
    current.addChild(elem);

    parents.push(current);
    current = elem;
  }

  /**
   * <p>Marks that the end of the current element
   * is reached and that no more childs are added to
   * it.</p>
   * 
   * <p>The behavior is to return to the nearest parent
   * element.</p>
   */
  public void end()
  {
    current = (Element) parents.pop();
  }

  /**
   * <p>Goes back to the nearest parent element but
   * deletes the just created child.</p>
   * 
   * <p>This is used if something went wrong while
   * processing the child element's {@link java.beans.Expression}
   * or {@link java.beans.Statement}.</p>
   *
   */
  public void deleteLast()
  {
    current = (Element) parents.pop();

    current.removeLast();
  }

  /**
   * <p>Traverses the elements in the object tree
   * and creates their XML representation in the output
   * stream of the given {@link Writer}.</p>
   * 
   * <p>Finally the <code>Writer</code> is flushed.</p>
   *  
   * @param writer The Writer instance that generates the XML representation.
   */
  public void traverse(Writer writer)
  {
    if (!started)
      {
        writer.writePreamble();
        rootElement.writeStart(writer);
      }
    started = true;
    
    traverse(writer, rootElement.iterator());
    
    rootElement.clear();
    
    writer.flush();
  }

  /** Writes the closing element and closes the {@link Writer}
   * 
   * @param writer The Writer instance that generates the XML representation.
   */
  public void close(Writer writer)
  {
    rootElement.writeEnd(writer);
    writer.close();
  }

  /** Recursively traverses the object tree.
   * 
   * @param writer The Writer instance that generates the XML representation.
   * @param ite An Iterator returning Element instances.
   */
  private void traverse(Writer writer, Iterator ite)
  {
    while (ite.hasNext())
      {
        Element e = (Element) ite.next();
        e.writeStart(writer);

        traverse(writer, e.iterator());

        e.writeEnd(writer);
        
        e.clear();
      }
  }

  /** <p>A special Element implementation that represents the
   * encoder's context.</p>
   * 
   * <p>This element is written only once per Writer.</p>
   * 
   * <p>It is assumed that this element is never empty to simplify
   * the implementation.</p>
   * 
   * @author Robert Schuster (robertschuster@fsfe.org);
   *
   */
  static class RootElement extends Element
  {
    public void writeStart(Writer writer)
    {
      writer.write("java", new String[] { "version", "class" },
                   new String[] { System.getProperty("java.version"),
                                 XMLEncoder.class.getName() }, false);
    }
    
    public void writeEnd(Writer writer)
    {
      writer.writeEnd(false);
    }

  }

}