using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Specialized;

namespace P4API
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Subclass of Hashtable which provides additional methods for dealing with the psuedo-arrays passed from Perforce.
    /// </summary>
    public class P4Record : Hashtable
    {
        internal P4Record(Hashtable sd) 
        {
            foreach (string s in sd.Keys)
            {
                base.Add(s, sd[s]);
            }
        }
        public string[] getArray(string var)
        {
            ArrayList al = new ArrayList();
            int i = 0;
            while(base.ContainsKey(var + i.ToString()))
            {
                al.Add(base[var + i.ToString()]);
                i++;
            }
            return (string[])al.ToArray(typeof(string[]));
        }
        public void setArray(string Variable, string[] ArrayValues)
        {
            //First clear any variables that may already exist
            int i = 0;
            while (base.ContainsKey(Variable + i.ToString()))
            {
                base.Remove(Variable + i.ToString());
                i++;
            }

            // Now add in all that we need
            i = 0;
            foreach (string val in ArrayValues)
            {
                base.Add(Variable + i.ToString(), val);
                i++;
            }
        }
        public override string ToString()
        {
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            foreach (string s in this.Keys)
            {
                sb.Append(String.Format("{0} : {1}\n", s, this[s]));
            }
            return sb.ToString();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// If the underlying P4BaseRecordSet has a key of "var1", it is assumed that this variable is an array, and will return as such.
        /// </summary>
        public bool isArray(string var)
        {
            throw new System.NotImplementedException();
        }
    }
}