source: trunk/grails-app/domain/dbnp/studycapturing/Template.groovy @ 392

package dbnp.studycapturing

/**
 * The Template class describes a study template, which is basically an extension of the study capture entities
 * in terms of extra fields (described by classes that extend the TemplateField class).
 * At this moment, only extension of the study and subject entities is implemented.
 *
 * Revision information:
 * $Rev: 392 $
 * $Author: keesvb $
 * $Date: 2010-05-04 15:03:21 +0000 (di, 04 mei 2010) $
 */
class Template implements Serializable {
        String name
        Class entity
        //nimble.User owner
        List fields
        static hasMany = [fields: TemplateField]

        static constraints = {

                // outcommented for now due to bug in Grails / Hibernate
                // see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-6020
                //      name(unique:['entity'])
        }

        /**
         * overloaded toString method
         * @return String
         */
        def String toString() {
                return this.name;
        }

        /**
         * Look up the type of a certain template subject field
         * @param       String  fieldName The name of the template field
         * @return      String  The type (static member of TemplateFieldType) of the field, or null of the field does not exist
         */
        def TemplateFieldType getFieldType(String fieldName) {
                def field = fields.find {
                        it.name == fieldName    
                }
                field?.type
        }

        /**
         * get all field of a particular type
         * @param       Class   fieldType
         * @return      Set<TemplateField>
         */
        def getFieldsByType(TemplateFieldType fieldType) {
                def result = fields.findAll {
                        it.type == fieldType
                }
                return result;
        }

        /**
         * get all required fields
         * @param       Class   fieldType
         * @return      Set<TemplateField>
         */
        def getRequiredFields() {
                def result = fields.findAll {
                        it.required == true
                }
                return result;
        }

        /**
         * overloading the findAllByEntity method to make it function as expected
         * @param       Class           entity (for example: dbnp.studycapturing.Subject)
         * @return      ArrayList
         */
        public static findAllByEntity(java.lang.Class entity) {
                def results = []
                // 'this' should not work in static context, so taking Template instead of this
                Template.findAll().each() {
                        if (entity.equals(it.entity)) {
                                results[ results.size() ] = it
                        }
                }

                return results
        }
}