/*
 *************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2004 Actuate Corporation.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *  Actuate Corporation  - initial API and implementation
 *  
 *************************************************************************
 */ 
package org.eclipse.birt.core.data;

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.sql.Blob;
import java.util.Date;

/**
 * Defines constants for BIRT data types
 */
public abstract class DataType
{
	public static final int UNKNOWN_TYPE = -1;
	public static final int ANY_TYPE = 0;
	public static final int BOOLEAN_TYPE = 1;
	public static final int INTEGER_TYPE = 2;	
	public static final int DOUBLE_TYPE = 3;
	public static final int DECIMAL_TYPE = 4;	
	public static final int STRING_TYPE = 5;
	public static final int DATE_TYPE = 6;	
	public static final int BLOB_TYPE = 7;
	public static final int BINARY_TYPE = 8;
	
	private static final String[] names = 
	{ 
			"Any",
			"Boolean",
			"Integer",
			"Double",
			"Decimal",
			"String",
			"Date",
			"Blob",
			"Binary"
	};
	
	public static final String ANY_TYPE_NAME = names[0];
	public static final String BOOLEAN_TYPE_NAME = names[1];
	public static final String INTEGER_TYPE_NAME = names[2];
	public static final String DOUBLE_TYPE_NAME = names[3];
	public static final String DECIMAL_TYPE_NAME = names[4];
	public static final String STRING_TYPE_NAME = names[5];
	public static final String DATE_TYPE_NAME = names[6];
	public static final String BLOB_TYPE_NAME = names[7];
	public static final String BINARY_TYPE_NAME = names[8];
	
	private static final Class[] classes = 
	{ 
			AnyType.class,
			Boolean.class,
			Integer.class,
			Double.class,
			BigDecimal.class,
			String.class,
			Date.class,
			Blob.class,
			byte[].class
	};
	
	/**
	 * Gets the description of a data type.
	 * @param typeCode Data type enumeration value
	 * @return Textual description of data type. "Unknown" if an undefined data type is passed in.
	 */
	public static String getName( int typeCode )
	{
		if ( typeCode < 0 || typeCode >= names.length )
		{
	        return new String( "Unknown" );
		}
		return names[typeCode];
	} 
	
	/**
	 * Gets the Java class used to represent the specified data type.
	 * @return Class for the specified data type. If data type is unknown or ANY, returns null. 
	 */
	public static Class getClass( int typeCode )
	{
		if ( typeCode < 0 || typeCode >= classes.length )
		{
	        return null;
		}
		return classes[typeCode];
	}
	
	/**
	 * Other type can be found in JDK, such as Integer and String, but AnyType
	 * have to be manually created to make it correspond to "Any" name. 
	 */
	public static final class AnyType
	{
	};
	
}
