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+/*
+ ************************************************************************
+ *******************  CANADIAN ASTRONOMY DATA CENTRE  *******************
+ **************  CENTRE CANADIEN DE DONNÉES ASTRONOMIQUES  **************
+ *
+ *  (c) 2009.                            (c) 2009.
+ *  Government of Canada                 Gouvernement du Canada
+ *  National Research Council            Conseil national de recherches
+ *  Ottawa, Canada, K1A 0R6              Ottawa, Canada, K1A 0R6
+ *  All rights reserved                  Tous droits réservés
+ *
+ *  NRC disclaims any warranties,        Le CNRC dénie toute garantie
+ *  expressed, implied, or               énoncée, implicite ou légale,
+ *  statutory, of any kind with          de quelque nature que ce
+ *  respect to the software,             soit, concernant le logiciel,
+ *  including without limitation         y compris sans restriction
+ *  any warranty of merchantability      toute garantie de valeur
+ *  or fitness for a particular          marchande ou de pertinence
+ *  purpose. NRC shall not be            pour un usage particulier.
+ *  liable in any event for any          Le CNRC ne pourra en aucun cas
+ *  damages, whether direct or           être tenu responsable de tout
+ *  indirect, special or general,        dommage, direct ou indirect,
+ *  consequential or incidental,         particulier ou général,
+ *  arising from the use of the          accessoire ou fortuit, résultant
+ *  software.  Neither the name          de l'utilisation du logiciel. Ni
+ *  of the National Research             le nom du Conseil National de
+ *  Council of Canada nor the            Recherches du Canada ni les noms
+ *  names of its contributors may        de ses  participants ne peuvent
+ *  be used to endorse or promote        être utilisés pour approuver ou
+ *  products derived from this           promouvoir les produits dérivés
+ *  software without specific prior      de ce logiciel sans autorisation
+ *  written permission.                  préalable et particulière
+ *                                       par écrit.
+ *
+ *  This file is part of the             Ce fichier fait partie du projet
+ *  OpenCADC project.                    OpenCADC.
+ *
+ *  OpenCADC is free software:           OpenCADC est un logiciel libre ;
+ *  you can redistribute it and/or       vous pouvez le redistribuer ou le
+ *  modify it under the terms of         modifier suivant les termes de
+ *  the GNU Affero General Public        la “GNU Affero General Public
+ *  License as published by the          License” telle que publiée
+ *  Free Software Foundation,            par la Free Software Foundation
+ *  either version 3 of the              : soit la version 3 de cette
+ *  License, or (at your option)         licence, soit (à votre gré)
+ *  any later version.                   toute version ultérieure.
+ *
+ *  OpenCADC is distributed in the       OpenCADC est distribué
+ *  hope that it will be useful,         dans l’espoir qu’il vous
+ *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;            sera utile, mais SANS AUCUNE
+ *  without even the implied             GARANTIE : sans même la garantie
+ *  warranty of MERCHANTABILITY          implicite de COMMERCIALISABILITÉ
+ *  or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR          ni d’ADÉQUATION À UN OBJECTIF
+ *  PURPOSE.  See the GNU Affero         PARTICULIER. Consultez la Licence
+ *  General Public License for           Générale Publique GNU Affero
+ *  more details.                        pour plus de détails.
+ *
+ *  You should have received             Vous devriez avoir reçu une
+ *  a copy of the GNU Affero             copie de la Licence Générale
+ *  General Public License along         Publique GNU Affero avec
+ *  with OpenCADC.  If not, see          OpenCADC ; si ce n’est
+ *  <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.      pas le cas, consultez :
+ *                                       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ *
+ *  $Revision: 4 $
+ *
+ ************************************************************************
+ */
+
+package ca.nrc.cadc.stc;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Scanner;
+import org.apache.log4j.Level;
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+
+public abstract class Space
+{
+    private static Logger log;
+
+    protected boolean endOfWords;
+    protected String currentWord;
+    protected Scanner words;
+
+    public static List frames;
+    public static List refposs;
+    public static List flavors;
+    public static List units;
+    static
+    {
+        // default log level is debug.
+        log = Logger.getLogger(Space.class);
+        log.setLevel((Level)Level.DEBUG);
+
+        frames = new ArrayList();
+        frames.add("ICRS");
+        frames.add("FK5");
+        frames.add("FK4");
+        frames.add("J2000");
+        frames.add("B1950");
+        frames.add("ECLIPTIC");
+        frames.add("GALACTIC");
+        frames.add("GALACTIC_II");
+        frames.add("SUPER_GALACTIC");
+        frames.add("GEO_C");
+        frames.add("GEO_D");
+        frames.add("UNKNOWNFrame");
+
+        refposs = new ArrayList();
+        refposs.add("GEOCENTER");
+        refposs.add("BARYCENTER");
+        refposs.add("HELIOCENTER");
+        refposs.add("TOPOCENTER");
+        refposs.add("GALACTIC_CENTER");
+        refposs.add("EMBARYCENTER");
+        refposs.add("MOON");
+        refposs.add("MERCURY");
+        refposs.add("VENUS");
+        refposs.add("MARS");
+        refposs.add("JUPITER");
+        refposs.add("SATURN");
+        refposs.add("URANUS");
+        refposs.add("NEPTUNE");
+        refposs.add("PLUTO");
+        refposs.add("UNKNOWNRefPos");
+
+        flavors = new ArrayList();
+        flavors.add("SPHER2");
+        flavors.add("UNITSPHER");
+        flavors.add("CART1");
+        flavors.add("CART2");
+        flavors.add("CART3");
+        flavors.add("SPHER3");
+
+        units = new ArrayList();
+        units.add("deg");
+        units.add("arcmin");
+        units.add("arcsec");
+        units.add("m");
+        units.add("mm");
+        units.add("km");
+        units.add("AU");
+        units.add("pc");
+        units.add("kpc");
+        units.add("Mpc");
+    }
+
+    public String stcs;
+    public String space;
+    public Double fill;
+    public String frame;
+    public String refpos;
+    public String flavor;
+    public List<Double> position;
+    public String unit;
+    public List<Double> error;
+    public List<Double> resln;
+    public List<Double> size;
+    public List<Double> pixsiz;
+    public Velocity velocity;
+
+    public Space(String space)
+    {
+        this.space = space;
+    }
+
+    public Space(String space, String stcs)
+    {
+        if (stcs == null || stcs.length() == 0)
+            return;
+        this.space = space;
+        this.stcs = stcs;
+        
+        endOfWords = false;
+        currentWord = null;
+        words = new Scanner(stcs);
+        words.useDelimiter("\\s");
+
+        valiateSpace(space);
+        getFillfactor();
+        getFrame();
+        getRefpos();
+        getFlavor();
+        getPos();
+        getPosition();
+        getUnit();
+        getError();
+        getResolution();
+        getSize();
+        getPixSize();
+    }
+
+    public abstract String toSTCString();
+
+    protected abstract void getPos();
+
+    protected void valiateSpace(String space)
+    {
+        if (words.hasNext(space))
+            words.next();
+        else
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid space " + words.next());
+        log.debug("space: " + space);
+    }
+
+    protected void getFillfactor()
+    {
+        if (words.hasNext("fillfactor"))
+        {
+            words.next();
+            if (words.hasNextDouble())
+                fill = words.nextDouble();
+            else
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unexpected end to STC-S string, missing fillfactor value");
+        }
+        log.debug("fillfactor: " + fill);
+    }
+
+    protected void getFrame()
+    {
+        if (words.hasNext())
+        {
+            frame = words.next();
+            if (!frames.contains(frame))
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid frame " + frame);
+        }
+        log.debug("frame: " + frame);
+    }
+
+    protected void getRefpos()
+    {
+        if (words.hasNext())
+        {
+            currentWord = words.next();
+            if (refposs.contains(currentWord))
+            {
+                refpos = currentWord;
+                currentWord = null;
+            }
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unexpected end to STC-S string reached before pos assigned");
+        }
+        log.debug("refpos: " + refpos);
+    }
+
+    protected void getFlavor()
+    {
+        if (currentWord == null)
+        {
+            if (words.hasNext())
+                currentWord = words.next();
+            else
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unexpected end to STC-S string reached before pos assigned");
+        }
+        if (flavors.contains(currentWord))
+        {
+            flavor = currentWord;
+            currentWord = null;
+        }
+        log.debug("flavor: " + flavor);
+    }
+
+    protected void getPosition()
+    {
+        position = getDoubleListForWord("Position");
+    }
+
+    protected void getUnit()
+    {
+        if (endOfWords)
+        {
+            unit = null;
+            return;
+        }
+        if (currentWord == null)
+        {
+            if (words.hasNext())
+                currentWord = words.next();
+            else
+                endOfWords = true;
+        }
+        if (currentWord.equals("unit"))
+        {
+            if (words.hasNext())
+            {
+                currentWord = words.next();
+                if (units.contains(currentWord))
+                {
+                    unit = currentWord;
+                    currentWord = null;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        log.debug("unit: " + unit);
+    }
+
+    protected void getError()
+    {
+        error = getDoubleListForWord("Error");
+    }
+
+    protected void getResolution()
+    {
+        resln = getDoubleListForWord("Resolution");
+    }
+
+    protected void getSize()
+    {
+        size = getDoubleListForWord("Size");
+    }
+
+    protected void getPixSize()
+    {
+        pixsiz = getDoubleListForWord("PixSize");
+    }
+
+    private List<Double> getDoubleListForWord(String word)
+    {
+        if (endOfWords)
+            return null;
+        List<Double> value = null;
+        if (currentWord == null)
+        {
+            if (words.hasNext())
+                currentWord = words.next();
+            else
+                endOfWords = true;
+        }
+        if (currentWord.equals(word))
+        {
+            while (words.hasNextDouble())
+            {
+                if (value == null)
+                    value = new ArrayList<Double>();
+                value.add(words.nextDouble());
+            }
+            if (value.size() == 0)
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException(word + " parameter has no values");
+            currentWord = null;
+        }
+
+        log.debug(word + ": " + value);
+        return value;
+    }
+
+    protected String getListValues(List<Double> list)
+    {
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+        for (Double d : list)
+            sb.append(d).append(" ");
+        return sb.toString();
+    }
+}