/**
 * Copyright 2005-2013 The Kuali Foundation
 *
 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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 */
package org.kuali.rice.kim.ldap;

import org.kuali.rice.kim.util.Constants;
import org.springframework.ldap.core.DirContextOperations;
import org.springframework.ldap.core.support.AbstractContextMapper;

/**
 * Base abstract class for mapping abstract data transfer objects from Kuali Rice into
 * Spring LDAP. 
 * 
 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
 */
public abstract class BaseMapper<T> extends AbstractContextMapper {

	private Constants constants;
	
	@Override
	public Object doMapFromContext(DirContextOperations context) {
		return mapDtoFromContext(context);
	}

	abstract T mapDtoFromContext(DirContextOperations context);
	

    /**
     * Gets the value of constants
     *
     * @return the value of constants
     */
    public final Constants getConstants() {
        return this.constants;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the value of constants
     *
     * @param argConstants Value to assign to this.constants
     */
    public final void setConstants(final Constants argConstants) {
        this.constants = argConstants;
    }
	
}
