import { SimpleDictionary } from '../SimpleDictionary';
import { SerializerAndDeserializer } from './SerializerFactory';

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/**
 * Defines a custom Serializer/deserializer for a {@link SimpleDictionary} object.  Current support includes
 * elements with basic datatype only in both key and value
 *
 * @export
 * @class SimpleDictionarySerializer
 * @implements {SerializerAndDeserializer<SimpleDictionary<unknown, unknown>>}
 */
export class SimpleDictionarySerializer
  implements SerializerAndDeserializer<SimpleDictionary<unknown, unknown>>
{
  /**
   * Deserializes a {@link SimpleDictionary} object.  The serialized representation is an array of elements [{Key,Value} ...] objects.
   *
   * @param {unknown} obj
   * @return {*}  {SimpleDictionary<unknown, unknown>}
   * @memberof SimpleDictionarySerializer
   */
  Deserialize(obj: unknown): SimpleDictionary<unknown, unknown> {
    if (Array.isArray(obj)) {
      let dict: SimpleDictionary<unknown, unknown> = new SimpleDictionary();
      obj.forEach((x) => dict.addEntry(x.Key, x.Value));
      return dict;
    } else {
      return null;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Not supported
   *
   * @param {SimpleDictionary<unknown, unknown>} object
   * @memberof SimpleDictionarySerializer
   */
  Serialize(object: SimpleDictionary<unknown, unknown>) {
    throw new Error('Method not implemented.');
  }
}