AsString.java

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/*
    Synthia, a data structure generator
    Copyright (C) 2019-2021 Laboratoire d'informatique formelle
    Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
 
    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 */
package ca.uqac.lif.synthia.string;
 
import ca.uqac.lif.synthia.Picker;
 
/**
 * Utility picker that converts an input into a string.
 * @author Sylvain Hallé
 * @ingroup API
 */
public class AsString implements Picker<String>
{
    /**
     * The picker from which to take the input objects.
     */
    protected Picker<?> m_picker;
    
    /**
     * Creates a new instance of the picker.
     * @param picker The picker from which to take the input objects
     */
    public AsString(Picker<?> picker)
    {
        super();
        m_picker = picker;
    }
 
    @Override
    public String pick()
    {
        Object o = m_picker.pick();
        if (o == null)
        {
            return "null";
        }
        return o.toString();
    }
 
    @Override
    public AsString duplicate(boolean with_state)
    {
        return new AsString(m_picker.duplicate(with_state));
    }
 
    @Override
    public void reset()
    {
        m_picker.reset();
    }
}