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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.strategy.cache.name;

import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.strategy.cache.TaggedCacheHelper;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.strategy.cache.TaggedText;

/**

 * Base class for testing name cache strategies

 * @author a.mueller

 */

public class NameCacheStrategyTestBase {

	private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(ZoologicalNameCacheStrategyTest.class);

	protected Method getMethod(Class<?> clazz, String methodName, Class<?> paramClazzes){

		Method method;

		try {

			method = clazz.getDeclaredMethod(methodName, paramClazzes);

		} catch (SecurityException e) {

			logger.error("SecurityException " + e.getMessage());

			return null;

		} catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {

			logger.error("NoSuchMethodException " + e.getMessage());

			return null;

		}

		return method;

	}

	protected String getStringValue(Method method, Object object,Object parameter){

		try {

			List<TaggedText> list = (List<TaggedText>)method.invoke(object, parameter);

			return TaggedCacheHelper.createString(list);

		} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {

			logger.error("IllegalArgumentException " + e.getMessage());

			return null;

		} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {

			logger.error("IllegalAccessException " + e.getMessage());

			return null;

		} catch (InvocationTargetException e) {

			logger.error("InvocationTargetException " + e.getMessage());

			return null;

		}

	}

}