package net.sourceforge.phpdt.externaltools.internal.registry;

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import net.sourceforge.phpdt.externaltools.variable.ExpandVariableContext;
import net.sourceforge.phpdt.externaltools.variable.IVariableResourceExpander;

import org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IConfigurationElement;

/**
 * Represents the variable for a refresh scope.
 */
public final class RefreshScopeVariable extends ExternalToolVariable {
	private static final DefaultResourceExpander defaultExpander = new DefaultResourceExpander();

	private IVariableResourceExpander expander = null;

	/**
	 * Creates a refresh scope variable
	 * 
	 * @param tag
	 *            the variable tag
	 * @param description
	 *            a short description of what the variable will expand to
	 * @param element
	 *            the configuration element
	 */
	/* package */RefreshScopeVariable(String tag, String description,
			IConfigurationElement element) {
		super(tag, description, element);
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the object that can expand the variable as resources.
	 */
	public IVariableResourceExpander getExpander() {
		if (expander == null) {
			expander = (IVariableResourceExpander) createObject(ExternalToolVariableRegistry.TAG_EXPANDER_CLASS);
			if (expander == null)
				expander = defaultExpander;
		}
		return expander;
	}

	/**
	 * Default variable resource expander implementation which does not expand
	 * variables, but just returns <code>null</code>.
	 */
	private static final class DefaultResourceExpander implements
			IVariableResourceExpander {
		/*
		 * (non-Javadoc) Method declared on IVariableResourceExpander.
		 */
		public IResource[] getResources(String varTag, String varValue,
				ExpandVariableContext context) {
			return null;
		}
	}
}