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  *

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

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 package org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.impl;

 import java.util.Comparator;

 import java.util.List;

 import org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanComparator;

 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

 /**

  * The super class which implementations of the FieldOverride interface will extend. 

  * 

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  *

  */

 public class FieldOverrideForListElementBase {

     private String propertyName;

     private Object element;

     protected String propertyNameForElementCompare;

     public String getPropertyNameForElementCompare() {

         return propertyNameForElementCompare;

     }

     public void setPropertyNameForElementCompare(String propertyNameForElementCompare) {

         this.propertyNameForElementCompare = propertyNameForElementCompare;

     }

     protected int getElementPositionInList(Object object, List theList) {

         Comparator comparator = this.getComparator();

         int pos = -1;

         if ( object != null && theList != null )

         {

             for ( int i = 0; i < theList.size(); ++i )

             {

                 Object item = theList.get(i);

                 boolean equalFlag = false;

                 if ( comparator != null )

                 {

                     equalFlag = comparator.compare(object, item) == 0;

                 }

                 else

                 {

                     equalFlag = item.equals(object);   

                 }

                 if ( equalFlag )

                 {

                     pos = i;

                     break;

                 }

             }

         }

         return pos;

     }

     public String getPropertyName() {

         return propertyName;

     }

     public void setPropertyName(String propertyName) {

         this.propertyName = propertyName;

     }

     public Object getElement() {

         return element;

     }

     public void setElement(Object value) {

         this.element = value;

     }

     public FieldOverrideForListElementBase() {

         super();

     }

     protected Comparator getComparator() {

         Comparator comparator = null;

         if ( StringUtils.isNotBlank(propertyNameForElementCompare))

         {

             comparator = new BeanComparator(propertyNameForElementCompare);

         }

         else

         {

             throw new RuntimeException("Missing required comparator definitions.");

         }

         return comparator;

     }

 }