StateEdit.java   [plain text]


/* StateEdit.java -- UndoableEdit for StateEditable implementations.
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package javax.swing.undo;

import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Iterator;

/**
 * A helper class, making it easy to support undo and redo.
 *
 * <p>The following example shows how to use this class.</p>
 *
 * <pre>
 * Foo foo; // class Foo implements {@link StateEditable}
 * StateEdit edit;
 *
 * edit = new StateEdit(foo, "Name Change");
 * foo.setName("Jane Doe");
 * edit.end();
 * undoManager.addEdit(edit);
 * </pre>
 *
 * <p>If <code>Foo</code>&#x2019;s implementation of {@link
 * StateEditable} considers the name as part of the editable state,
 * the user can now choose &#x201c;Undo Name Change&#x201d; or
 * &#x201c;Redo Name Change&#x201d; from the respective menu. No
 * further undo support is needed from the application.</p>
 *
 * <p>The following explains what happens in the example.</p>
 *
 * <ol>
 * <li>When a <code>StateEdit</code> is created, the associated
 *     {@link StateEditable} gets asked to store its state into a hash
 *     table, {@link #preState}.</li>
 * <li>The application will now perform some changes to the edited
 *     object. This typically happens by invoking methods on the edited
 *     object.</li>
 * <li>The editing phase is terminated by invoking the {@link #end()}
 *     method of the <code>StateEdit</code>. The <code>end()</code> method
 *     does two things.
 *
 *     <ul>
 *     <li>The edited object receives a second request for storing
 *         its state.  This time, it will use a different hash table, {@link
 *         #postState}.</li>
 *     <li>To increase efficiency, the <code>StateEdit</code> now removes
 *         any entries from {@link #preState} and {@link #postState} that have
 *         the same key, and whose values are equal. Equality is determined
 *         by invoking the <code>equals</code> method inherited from
 *         {@link java.lang.Object}.</li>
 *     </ul></li>
 * <li>When the user later chooses to undo the <code>StateEdit</code>,
 * the edited object is asked to {@linkplain StateEditable#restoreState
 * restore its state} from the {@link #preState} table.  Similarly,
 * when the user chooses to <i>redo</i> the <code>StateEdit</code>,
 * the edited object gets asked to restore its state from the {@link
 * #postState}.</li>
 * </ol>
 *
 * @author Andrew Selkirk (aselkirk@sympatico.ca)
 * @author Sascha Brawer (brawer@dandelis.ch)
 */
public class StateEdit
  extends AbstractUndoableEdit
{
  /**
   * The ID of the Java source file in Sun&#x2019;s Revision Control
   * System (RCS).  This certainly should not be part of the API
   * specification. But in order to be API-compatible with
   * Sun&#x2019;s reference implementation, GNU Classpath also has to
   * provide this field. However, we do not try to match its value.
   */
  protected static final String RCSID = "";


  /**
   * The object which is being edited by this <code>StateEdit</code>.
   */
  protected StateEditable object;


  /**
   * The state of <code>object</code> at the time of constructing
   * this <code>StateEdit</code>.
   */
  protected Hashtable preState;


  /**
   * The state of <code>object</code> at the time when {@link #end()}
   * was called.
   */
  protected Hashtable postState;


  /**
   * A human-readable name for this edit action.
   */
  protected String undoRedoName;


  /**
   * Constructs a <code>StateEdit</code>, specifying the object whose
   * state is being edited.
   *
   * @param obj the object whose state is being edited by this
   * <code>StateEdit</code>.
   */
  public StateEdit(StateEditable obj)
  {
    init(obj, null);
  }


  /**
   * Constructs a <code>StateEdit</code>, specifying the object whose
   * state is being edited.
   *
   * @param obj the object whose state is being edited by this
   * <code>StateEdit</code>.
   *
   * @param name the human-readable name of the editing action.
   */
  public StateEdit(StateEditable obj, String name)
  {
    init(obj, name);
  }


  /**
   * Initializes this <code>StateEdit</code>. The edited object will
   * be asked to store its current state into {@link #preState}.
   *
   * @param obj the object being edited.
   *
   * @param name the human-readable name of the editing action.
   */
  protected void init(StateEditable obj, String name)
  {
    object = obj;
    undoRedoName = name;
    preState = new Hashtable();
    postState = new Hashtable();
    obj.storeState(preState);
  }


  /**
   * Informs this <code>StateEdit</code> that all edits are finished.
   * The edited object will be asked to store its state into {@link
   * #postState}, and any redundant entries will get removed from
   * {@link #preState} and {@link #postState}.
   */
  public void end()
  {
    object.storeState(postState);
    removeRedundantState();
  }


  /**
   * Undoes this edit operation. The edited object will be asked to
   * {@linkplain StateEditable#restoreState restore its state} from
   * {@link #preState}.
   *
   * @throws CannotUndoException if {@link #canUndo()} returns
   * <code>false</code>, for example because this action has already
   * been undone.
   */
  public void undo()
  {
    super.undo();
    object.restoreState(preState);
  }


  /**
   * Redoes this edit operation. The edited object will be asked to
   * {@linkplain StateEditable#restoreState restore its state} from
   * {@link #postState}.
   *
   * @throws CannotRedoException if {@link #canRedo()} returns
   * <code>false</code>, for example because this action has not yet
   * been undone.
   */
  public void redo()
  {
    super.redo();
    object.restoreState(postState);
  }


  /**
   * Returns a human-readable, localized name that describes this
   * editing action and can be displayed to the user.
   *
   * @return the name, or <code>null</code> if no presentation
   * name is available.
   */
  public String getPresentationName()
  {
    return undoRedoName;
  }


  /**
   * Removes all redundant entries from the pre- and post-edit state
   * hash tables. An entry is considered redundant if it is present
   * both before and after the edit, and if the two values are equal.
   */
  protected void removeRedundantState()
  {
    Iterator i = preState.keySet().iterator();
    while (i.hasNext())
      {
	Object key = i.next();
	if (postState.containsKey(key))
	  {
	    if (preState.get(key).equals(postState.get(key)))
	      {
		i.remove();
		postState.remove(key);
	      }
	  }
      }
  }
}