/**

  * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  *

  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php

  *

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

  * limitations under the License.

  */

 package org.kuali.rice.krad.util;

 import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.ExternalizableBusinessObject;

 /**

  * A class with utilities related to externalizable business objects

  */

 public final class ExternalizableBusinessObjectUtils {

     private static final org.apache.log4j.Logger LOG = org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(ExternalizableBusinessObjectUtils.class);

         private ExternalizableBusinessObjectUtils() {

                 throw new UnsupportedOperationException("do not call");

         }

         /**

          * Given a class, this method determines which of the interfaces that the class implements extends {@link ExternalizableBusinessObject}

          * 

          * @param businessObjectClass

          * @return

          */

         public static Class determineExternalizableBusinessObjectSubInterface(Class businessObjectClass) {

                 if (businessObjectClass == null) {

                         return null;

                 }

                 //if (businessObjectClass.isInterface()) {

                         if (!ExternalizableBusinessObject.class.equals(businessObjectClass) && ExternalizableBusinessObject.class.isAssignableFrom(businessObjectClass)) {

                                 return businessObjectClass;

                         }

             if (ExternalizableBusinessObject.class.isAssignableFrom(businessObjectClass)) {

                 Class tempClass = businessObjectClass;

                 while (tempClass != null && !Object.class.equals(tempClass)) {

                     for (Class tempClassInterface : tempClass.getInterfaces()) {

                         if (!ExternalizableBusinessObject.class.equals(tempClassInterface) && ExternalizableBusinessObject.class.isAssignableFrom(tempClassInterface)) {

                             return tempClassInterface;

                         }

                     }

                     tempClass = tempClass.getSuperclass();

                 }

             }

             return null;

         }

         public static boolean isExternalizableBusinessObjectInterface(Class businessObjectClass) {

                 return businessObjectClass != null && businessObjectClass.isInterface() && ExternalizableBusinessObject.class.isAssignableFrom(businessObjectClass);

         }

         public static boolean isExternalizableBusinessObjectInterface(String businessObjectClassName) {

                 try {

                         Class businessObjectClass = Class.forName( businessObjectClassName );

                         return isExternalizableBusinessObjectInterface(businessObjectClass);

                 } catch ( Exception ex ) {

                         LOG.debug( "Unable to get class object for class name: " + businessObjectClassName, ex );

                         return false;

                 }

         }

 }