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/**
 * The contents of this file are subject to the license and copyright
 * detailed in the LICENSE and NOTICE files at the root of the source
 * tree and available online at
 *
 * http://www.dspace.org/license/
 */
package org.dspace.app.webui.components;

import org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils;
import org.dspace.content.Item;

/**
 * Basic class for representing the set of items which are recent submissions
 * to the archive
 * 
 * @author Richard Jones
 *
 */
public class RecentSubmissions {
    /** The set of items being represented */
    private Item[] items;

    /**
     * Construct a new RecentSubmissions object to represent the passed
     * array of items
     * 
     * @param items
     */
    public RecentSubmissions(Item[] items) {
        this.items = (Item[]) ArrayUtils.clone(items);
    }

    /**
     * obtain the number of recent submissions available
     * 
     * @return   the number of items
     */
    public int count() {
        return items.length;
    }

    /**
     * Obtain the array of items
     * 
     * @return   an array of items
     */
    public Item[] getRecentSubmissions() {
        return (Item[]) ArrayUtils.clone(items);
    }

    /**
     * Get the item which is in the i'th position.  Therefore i = 1 gets the
     * most recently submitted item, while i = 3 gets the 3rd most recently
     * submitted item
     * 
     * @param i      the position of the item to retrieve
     * @return      the Item
     */
    public Item getRecentSubmission(int i) {
        if (i < items.length) {
            return items[i];
        } else {
            return null;
        }
    }
}