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 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0, which accompanies this distribution
 * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html.
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     Oracle - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jpt.common.core.internal.utility.jdt;

import org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.AST;
import org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ASTNode;
import org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.Expression;
import org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.Name;
import org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.SimpleType;
import org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.TypeLiteral;
import org.eclipse.jpt.common.core.utility.jdt.ExpressionConverter;

/**
 * Convert a type literal to/from a string representation of a simple type
 * (e.g. "java.lang.Object").
 */
public final class SimpleTypeStringExpressionConverter
	extends AbstractExpressionConverter<String>
{
	private static final ExpressionConverter<String> INSTANCE = new SimpleTypeStringExpressionConverter();

	/**
	 * Return the singleton.
	 */
	public static ExpressionConverter<String> instance() {
		return INSTANCE;
	}

	/**
	 * Ensure single instance.
	 */
	private SimpleTypeStringExpressionConverter() {
		super();
	}

	@Override
	protected TypeLiteral convertObject(String string, AST ast) {
		Name name = ast.newName(string);
		org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.Type type = ast.newSimpleType(name);
		TypeLiteral typeLiteral = ast.newTypeLiteral();
		typeLiteral.setType(type);
		return typeLiteral;
	}

	@Override
	protected String convertExpression(Expression expression) {
		if (expression.getNodeType() == ASTNode.TYPE_LITERAL) {
			org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.Type type = ((TypeLiteral) expression).getType();
			if (type.getNodeType() == ASTNode.SIMPLE_TYPE) {
				return ((SimpleType) type).getName().getFullyQualifiedName();
			}
		}
		return null;
	}

}