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=head1 NAME

=head1 SYNOPSIS

=head1 DESCRIPTION

=cut

package Bio::EnsEMBL::Funcgen::GenericGetSetFunctionality;

use strict;
use warnings;
use Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::Exception qw( throw );
use base qw( Exporter );
use vars qw( @EXPORT_OK );
use Data::Dumper;

@EXPORT_OK = qw(
  _generic_get_or_set
  _generic_set
  _generic_get
  _generic_fetch
);

sub _generic_fetch {

  my $self                    = shift;
  my $hash_key                = shift;
  my $get_adaptor_method_name = shift;
  my $dbID_method             = shift;

  if ($self->{$hash_key}) {
    return $self->{$hash_key};
  }
  if (! $self->can($dbID_method)) {
    throw(ref($self) . " is missing the method $dbID_method");
  }
  
  my $object_id = $self->$dbID_method;
  if (! defined $object_id) {
    use Carp;
    confess("The method $dbID_method returned an undefined value!");
  }
  my $object_adaptor;
  
  eval {
    $object_adaptor = $self->adaptor;
  };
  if ($@) {
    my ($package, $filename, $line) = caller;
    warn("Calling adaptor failed!");
    warn("\tTrying the older 'db' method.");
    $object_adaptor = $self->adaptor;
    if ($object_adaptor) {
      warn("\tThe db method succeeded.\n");
      warn("\tPlease switch to using 'adaptor' instead of 'db' in $package ($filename).\n");
    }
  }
  
  if (! defined $object_adaptor) {
      throw(
        "Can't get db adaptor from\n" 
        . Dumper($self) . "\n"
        . "This can happen, if " . ref($self) . " does not have db and dbID as constructor parameters.\n"
        . "The method should include them:\n"
        . "\n"
        . "\t" . "sub _constructor_parameters {\n"
        . "\t" . "  return {\n"
        . "\t" . "    dbID           => 'dbID',\n"
        . "\t" . "    db             => 'db',\n"
        . "\t" . "    ... # everything else here\n"
        . "\t" . "  }\n"
      );
  }
  
  my $dba = $object_adaptor->db;
  my $specific_adaptor = $dba->$get_adaptor_method_name;
  my $object = $specific_adaptor->fetch_by_dbID($object_id);
  $self->{$hash_key} = $object;
  return $object;
}

sub _generic_get_or_set {
  my $self  = shift;
  my $name  = shift;
  my $value = shift;
  my $unset = shift;

  if(defined $value) {
    $self->{$name}  = $value;
  }
  if($unset) {
    $self->{$name}  = undef;
  }
  return $self->{$name};
}

sub _generic_set {
  my $self  = shift;
  my $name  = shift;
  my $type  = shift;
  my $obj   = shift;
  
  if (! defined $obj) {
        throw("$name was not defined!");
  }

  if (defined $type and ! $obj->isa($type)) {
    throw("Expected $type, but got " . (ref $obj) . "!");
  }
  
  $self->{$name} = $obj;
  return $obj;
}

sub _generic_get {
  my $self  = shift;
  my $name  = shift;
  
  if ($self->{$name}) {
    return $self->{$name};
  }
  return
}

1;


