/*
 Copyright (C) 2008 Richard Gomes

 This source code is release under the BSD License.

 This file is part of JQuantLib, a free-software/open-source library
 for financial quantitative analysts and developers - http://jquantlib.org/

 JQuantLib is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 under the terms of the JQuantLib license.  You should have received a
 copy of the license along with this program; if not, please email
 . The license is also available online at
 .

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the license for more details.

 JQuantLib is based on QuantLib. http://quantlib.org/
 When applicable, the original copyright notice follows this notice.
 */

/*
 Copyright (C) 2003, 2006 Ferdinando Ametrano
 Copyright (C) 2006 Warren Chou
 Copyright (C) 2006, 2008 StatPro Italia srl
 Copyright (C) 2006 Chiara Fornarola

 This file is part of QuantLib, a free-software/open-source library
 for financial quantitative analysts and developers - http://quantlib.org/

 QuantLib is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 under the terms of the QuantLib license.  You should have received a
 copy of the license along with this program; if not, please email
 . The license is also available online at
 .

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the license for more details.
*/

package org.jquantlib.instruments;

import org.jquantlib.lang.exceptions.LibraryException;
import org.jquantlib.util.PolymorphicVisitor;
import org.jquantlib.util.Visitor;

/**
 * Dummy payoff class.
 *
 * @author Richard Gomes
 */
public class NullPayoff extends Payoff {

    //
    // overrides Payoff
    //

    @Override
    public String name() /* @ReadOnly */ {
        return "Null";
    }

    @Override
    public String description() /* @ReadOnly */ {
        return name();
    }

    @Override
    public final double get(final double price) /* @ReadOnly */ {
        throw new LibraryException("dummy payoff given");
    }


    //
    // implements PolymorphicVisitable
    //

    @Override
    public void accept(final PolymorphicVisitor pv) {
        final Visitor v = (pv!=null) ? pv.visitor(this.getClass()) : null;
        if (v != null) {
            v.visit(this);
        } else {
            super.accept(pv);
        }
    }

}