eu.etaxonomy.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 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.agent.TeamOrPersonBase;
  17
  18 /**
  19  * Utility class for handling of authorship related elements.
  20  *
  21  * @author n.hoffmann
  22  * @created Sep 8, 2010
  23  * @version 1.0
  24  */
  25 public class AuthorHelper {
  26
  27     /**
  28      * If the given {@link TeamOrPersonBase} is a {@link Person} this methods
  29      * creates a new {@link Team} with this person. If it already a team the
  30      * team is returned.
  31      *
  32      * @param teamOrPerson
  33      *            a team or a person
  34      * @return the given team or a newly created team with the given person
  35      */
  36         public static Team getAuthor(TeamOrPersonBase<?> teamOrPerson){
  37                 if(teamOrPerson == null){
  38                         return null;
  39                 }
  40                 Object deproxiedObject = HibernateProxyHelper.deproxy(teamOrPerson);
  41                 if(deproxiedObject instanceof Person){
  42                         Person person = (Person) deproxiedObject;
  43                         Team team = Team.NewInstance();
  44                         team.addTeamMember(person);
  45                         return team;
  46                 }
  47                 else if(deproxiedObject instanceof Team){
  48                         return (Team) deproxiedObject;
  49                 }else{
  50                         throw new IllegalArgumentException("Given object os of the wrong type");
  51                 }
  52         }
  53 }