/***********************************************************************

	This file is part of JavaNPST, a Java library of NonParametric
	Statistical Tests.

	Copyright (C) 2011
	
	J. Derrac (jderrac@decsai.ugr.es)
	S. Garcia (sglopez@ujaen.es)
	F. Herrera (herrera@decsai.ugr.es)

	This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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**********************************************************************/

package javanpst.data.readers.sequenceReaders;

import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.ArrayList;

/**
 * A XML reader for string sequences.
 * 
 * Store data inside a string array.
 * 
 * @author Joaqu�n Derrac Rus (jderrac@decsai.ugr.es)
 * @version 1.0
 */
public class StringSequenceXMLReader{

	/**
	 * Inner array
	 */
	private static ArrayList sequence;

	/**
	 * Get a copy of the inner sequence as output
	 * 
	 * @return a copy of the inner sequence
	 */
	public static ArrayList getSequence(){
		
		ArrayList output= new ArrayList(sequence);
		
		return output;
		
	}//end-method
	
	/**
	 * Clears the array
	 */
	public static void clear(){
		
		sequence.clear();
		
	}//end-method

	/**
	 * Adds a new element to the sequence
	 * @param text
	 */
	public static void append(String text){	
		
		sequence.add(text);
		
	}//end-method
	
	/**
	 * Read a string sequence from a file, through SAX API
	 * 
	 * @param file path of the file
	 */
	public static void readXMLSequence(String file){
	
		sequence=new ArrayList();
		
		try{
            SAXParserFactory spf=SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); 
            SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();                   
           	sp.parse(file, new SequenceXMLReaderFormat(SequenceXMLReaderFormat.STRING));	            
        }catch(ParserConfigurationException e){                  
        	System.err.println("Parser error");             
        }catch(SAXException e2){                                 
        	System.err.println("SAX error: " + e2.getStackTrace());
        } catch (IOException e3) {
        	System.err.println("Input/Output error: " + e3.getMessage() );
        }

	}//end-method
	
}//end-class