// -*- C++ -*-
/**
 * \file translator.h
 * Copyright 1995-2002 the LyX Team
 * Read the file COPYING
 *
 * \author Baruch Even <baruch@lyx.org>
 */

#ifndef TRANSLATOR_H
#define TRANSLATOR_H

#include <vector>
#include <utility>
#include <algorithm>
#include <functional>

#include "support/LAssert.h"
#include "support/lyxfunctional.h"
/**
 * This class template is used to translate between two elements, specifically
 * it was worked out to translate between an enum and strings when reading
 * the lyx file.
 *
 * The two template arguments should be of different types.
 */
template<typename T1, typename T2>
class Translator {
public:
	///
	typedef T1 first_argument_type;
	///
	typedef T2 second_argument_type;
	///
	typedef std::pair<T1, T2> MapPair;
	///
	typedef std::vector<MapPair> Map;

	///
	Translator(T1 const & t1, T2 const & t2)
		: default_t1(t1), default_t2(t2)
		{}

	/// Add a mapping to the translator.
	void addPair(T1 const & first, T2 const & second) {
		map.push_back(MapPair(first, second));
	}

	/// Find the mapping for the first argument
	T2 const & find(T1 const & first) const {
		lyx::Assert(!map.empty());

		// For explanation see the next find() function.
		typename Map::const_iterator it =
			std::find_if(map.begin(), map.end(),
				     lyx::equal_1st_in_pair<MapPair>(first)
				);

		if (it != map.end()) {
			return it->second;
		} else {
			return default_t2;
		}
	}

	/// Find the mapping for the second argument
	T1 const & find(T2 const & second) const {
		lyx::Assert(!map.empty());

		// The idea is as follows:
		// find_if() will try to compare the data in the vector with
		// the value. The vector is made of pairs and the value has
		// the type of the second part of the pair.
		// We thus give find_if() an equal_to functor and assign to
		// its second post the value we want to compare. We now
		// compose the equal_to functor with the select2nd functor
		// to take only the second value of the pair to be compared.
		//
		// We can depict it as follows:
		// equal_to(select2nd(pair) , second)
		typename Map::const_iterator it =
			std::find_if(map.begin(), map.end(),
				     lyx::equal_2nd_in_pair<MapPair>(second)
				);

		if (it != map.end())
			return it->first;
		else {
			return default_t1;
		}
	}
private:
	///
	Map map;
	///
	T1 const default_t1;
	///
	T2 const default_t2;
};

#endif // TRANSLATOR_H