/*
 * Copyright (C) 2008-2015 by Holger Arndt
 *
 * This file is part of the Java Data Mining Package (JDMP).
 * See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional
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 */

package org.jdmp.core.variable;

import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;

import org.ujmp.core.Matrix;
import org.ujmp.core.interfaces.GUIObject;
import org.ujmp.core.listmatrix.DefaultListMatrix;

public abstract class AbstractVariable extends DefaultListMatrix implements Variable {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = -3393106211967497877L;

	protected AbstractVariable() {
		super();
		setId("Variable" + getCoreObjectId());
	}

	public final GUIObject getGUIObject() {
		if (guiObject == null) {
			try {
				Constructor con = null;
				Class c = Class.forName("org.jdmp.gui.variable.VariableGUIObject");
				con = c.getConstructor(new Class[] { Variable.class });
				guiObject = (GUIObject) con.newInstance(new Object[] { this });
			} catch (Exception e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}
		return guiObject;
	}

	public final String toString() {
		if (getLabel() == null) {
			return getClass().getSimpleName();
		} else {
			return getClass().getSimpleName() + " [" + getLabel() + "]";
		}
	}

	public abstract Variable clone();

}