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/**

* Copyright (C) 2017 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.taxeditor.editor.descriptiveDataSet.matrix.categorical;

import java.util.Collection;

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.eclipse.nebula.widgets.nattable.data.convert.DisplayConverter;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.api.service.l10n.TermRepresentation_L10n;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.persistence.dto.TermDto;

/**

 * Converts CategoricalData and States of one cell of the character matrix to a

 * String.

 *

 * @author pplitzner

 * @since Dec 1, 2017

 *

 */

public class CategoricalDataDisplayConverter extends DisplayConverter {

    @Override

    public Object canonicalToDisplayValue(Object canonicalValue) {

        if(canonicalValue instanceof TermDto){

            ((TermDto) canonicalValue).localize(new TermRepresentation_L10n());

            return ((TermDto) canonicalValue).getTitleCache();

        }

        else if (canonicalValue instanceof Collection) {

            // Collection.toString() will add [ and ] around

            // the values in the Collection

            // So by removing the leading and ending

            // character, we remove the brackets

            String result = canonicalValue.toString();

            result = result.substring(1, result.length() - 1);

            return result;

        }

        else if(canonicalValue!=null){

            return canonicalValue.toString();

        }

        return null;

    }

    @Override

    public Object displayToCanonicalValue(Object displayValue) {

        return null;

    }

}