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package org.apache.xpath.objects;

import org.apache.xml.dtm.XType;
import org.w3c.dom.*;

/**
 * <meta name="usage" content="advanced"/>
 * This class represents an XPath boolean object, and is capable of
 * converting the boolean to other types, such as a string.
 */
public class XBoolean extends XObject
{
	boolean m_val;

  public final static XBoolean S_TRUE = new XBoolean(true);
  public final static XBoolean S_FALSE = new XBoolean(false);


  /**
   * Construct a XBoolean object.
   * 
   * NOTE: Arguably, this should not be a public ctor; folks
   * should instead be calling a factory which returns one of
   * the statics. Problem with that: If XBoolean ever directly
   * implements XSequence, and XSequence behaves as a singleton
   * iterator... Count this as downside of that approach.
   * %REVIEW%
   *
   * @param b Value of the boolean object
   */
  public XBoolean(boolean b)
  {
    m_val = b;
  }
  
  /**
   * Construct a XBoolean object.
   *
   * @param b Value of the boolean object
   */
  public XBoolean(Boolean b)
  {
    m_val = b.booleanValue();
  }
  
  /**
   * Return the sequence representing this object.
   * @return XSequence
   */
  public XSequence xseq()
  {
    return new XSequenceSingleton(this);
  }

  /**
   * Tell that this is a CLASS_BOOLEAN.
   *
   * @return type of CLASS_BOOLEAN
   */
  public int getType()
  {
    return CLASS_BOOLEAN;
  }

  /**
   * Given a request type, return the equivalent string.
   * For diagnostic purposes.
   *
   * @return type string "#BOOLEAN"
   */
  public String getTypeString()
  {
    return "#BOOLEAN";
  }

  /**
   * Cast result object to a number.
   *
   * @return numeric value of the object value
   */
  public double num()
  {
    return m_val ? 1.0 : 0.0;
  }

  /**
   * Cast result object to a boolean.
   *
   * @return The object value as a boolean
   */
  public boolean bool()
  {
    return m_val;
  }

  /**
   * Cast result object to a string.
   *
   * @return The object's value as a string
   */
  public String str()
  {
    return m_val ? "true" : "false";
  }

  /**
   * Return a java object that's closest to the representation
   * that should be handed to an extension.
   *
   * @return The object's value as a java object
   */
  public Object object()
  {
	return m_val ? Boolean.TRUE : Boolean.FALSE;
  }

  /**
   * Tell if two objects are functionally equal.
   *
   * @param obj2 Object to compare to this  
   *
   * @return True if the two objects are equal
   *
   * @throws javax.xml.transform.TransformerException
   */
  public boolean equals(XObject obj2)
  {
  	// Alternative approach would be implement equals(XNodeset)...?
  	
    // In order to handle the 'all' semantics of 
    // nodeset comparisons, we always call the 
    // nodeset function.
    if (obj2.isNodesetExpr())
      return ((XNodeSet)obj2).equalsExistential(this);

    try
    {
      return m_val == obj2.bool();
    }
    catch(javax.xml.transform.TransformerException te)
    {
      throw new org.apache.xml.utils.WrappedRuntimeException(te);
    }
  }

}