taxeditor-store/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/taxeditor/model/AuthorHelper.java

   1 // $Id$
   2 /**
   3 * Copyright (C) 2007 EDIT
   4 * European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy
   5 * http://www.e-taxonomy.eu
   6 *
   7 * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1
   8 * See LICENSE.TXT at the top of this package for the full license terms.
   9 */
  10
  11 package eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.model;
  12
  13 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.hibernate.HibernateProxyHelper;
  14 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.agent.Person;
  15 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.agent.Team;
  16
  17 /**
  18  * <p>AuthorHelper class.</p>
  19  *
  20  * @author n.hoffmann
  21  * @created Sep 8, 2010
  22  * @version 1.0
  23  */
  24 public class AuthorHelper {
  25
  26         /**
  27          * <p>getAuthor</p>
  28          *
  29          * @param object a {@link java.lang.Object} object.
  30          * @return a {@link eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.agent.Team} object.
  31          */
  32         public static Team getAuthor(Object object){
  33                 if(object == null){
  34                         return null;
  35                 }
  36                 Object deproxiedObject = HibernateProxyHelper.deproxy(object);
  37                 if(deproxiedObject instanceof Person){
  38                         Person person = (Person) deproxiedObject;
  39                         Team team = Team.NewInstance();
  40                         team.addTeamMember(person);
  41                         return team;
  42                 }
  43                 else if(deproxiedObject instanceof Team){
  44                         return (Team) deproxiedObject;
  45                 }else{
  46                         throw new IllegalArgumentException("Given object os of the wrong type");
  47                 }
  48         }
  49 }