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/**

 * Copyright (C) 2007 EDIT

 * European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy 

 * http://www.e-taxonomy.eu

 * 

 * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1

 * See LICENSE.TXT at the top of this package for the full license terms.

 */

package eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.common;

import javax.persistence.Entity;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import org.hibernate.annotations.NaturalId;

import org.springframework.security.core.GrantedAuthority;

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)

@XmlType(name = "GrantedAuthority", propOrder = { "authority" })

@XmlRootElement(name = "Group")

@Entity

public class GrantedAuthorityImpl extends CdmBase implements GrantedAuthority {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 2651969425860655040L;

	private static final Logger logger = Logger

			.getLogger(GrantedAuthority.class);

	@XmlElement(name = "Authority")

	@NaturalId

	private String authority;

	protected GrantedAuthorityImpl() {

		super();

	}

	public static GrantedAuthorityImpl NewInstance() {

		return new GrantedAuthorityImpl();

	}

	public String getAuthority() {

		return authority;

	}

	public void setAuthority(String authority) {

		this.authority = authority;

	}

	public int compareTo(Object o) {

		if (o instanceof GrantedAuthority) {

			return this.authority.compareTo(((GrantedAuthority) o)

					.getAuthority());

		}

		return 0;

	}

	// *********** CLONE **********************************/

	/**

	 * Clones <i>this</i> Granted Authority. This is a shortcut that enables to

	 * create a new instance that differs only slightly from <i>this</i> Granted

	 * Authority by modifying only some of the attributes.<BR>

	 * 

	 * 

	 * 

	 * @see eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.common.CdmBase#clone()

	 * @see java.lang.Object#clone()

	 */

	@Override

	public Object clone() {

		GrantedAuthority result;

		try {

			result = (GrantedAuthority) super.clone();

			// no changes to authority

			return result;

		} catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {

			logger.warn("Object does not implement cloneable");

			e.printStackTrace();

			return null;

		}

	}

}