# AbstractColumnValuePredicate.java

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    package org.silverpeas.components.mydb.model.predicates;

    import org.silverpeas.components.mydb.model.DbColumn;
    import org.silverpeas.core.persistence.jdbc.sql.JdbcSqlQuery;

    /**
     * Abstract implementation of the {@link ColumnValuePredicate} interface.
     * @author mmoquillon
     */
    public abstract class AbstractColumnValuePredicate implements ColumnValuePredicate {

      public static final String NULL_VALUE = "null";
      public static final String EMPTY_VALUE = "@empty@";
      private DbColumn column;
      private Object normalizedValue;

      /**
       * Constructs a new predicate on the specified database table's column and with the given
       * reference value.
       * @param column the column.
       * @param refValue a reference value.
       */
      protected AbstractColumnValuePredicate(final DbColumn column, final String refValue) {
        this.column = column;
        this.normalizedValue = normalizeValue(column, refValue);
      }

      /**
       * Constructs an empty predicate. Dedicated to the concrete implementation of a predicate only
       * if they have to perform some specified tasks at initialization time.
       */
      AbstractColumnValuePredicate() {
        // dedicated to the implementors
      }

      private static Object normalizeValue(final DbColumn column, final String value) {
        final Object normalizedValue;
        if (NULL_VALUE.equals(value)) {
          normalizedValue = null;
        } else if (EMPTY_VALUE.equals(value)) {
          normalizedValue = "";
        } else {
          normalizedValue = column.getJdbcValueOf(value);
        }
        return normalizedValue;
      }

      Object getNormalizedValue() {
        return this.normalizedValue;
      }

      @Override
      public DbColumn getColumn() {
        return this.column;
      }

      public abstract JdbcSqlQuery apply(final JdbcSqlQuery query);
    }