// Copyright 2013 MongoDB, Inc.
//
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//
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// author           tolsen
// author-github    https://github.com/tolsen
//
// repository-name  gojsonschema
// repository-desc  An implementation of JSON Schema, based on IETF's draft v4 - Go language.
//
// description      Implements a persistent (immutable w/ shared structure) singly-linked list of strings for the purpose of storing a json context
//
// created          04-09-2013

package gojsonschema

import "bytes"

// jsonContext implements a persistent linked-list of strings
type jsonContext struct {
	head string
	tail *jsonContext
}

func newJsonContext(head string, tail *jsonContext) *jsonContext {
	return &jsonContext{head, tail}
}

// String displays the context in reverse.
// This plays well with the data structure's persistent nature with
// Cons and a json document's tree structure.
func (c *jsonContext) String(del ...string) string {
	byteArr := make([]byte, 0, c.stringLen())
	buf := bytes.NewBuffer(byteArr)
	c.writeStringToBuffer(buf, del)

	return buf.String()
}

func (c *jsonContext) stringLen() int {
	length := 0
	if c.tail != nil {
		length = c.tail.stringLen() + 1 // add 1 for "."
	}

	length += len(c.head)
	return length
}

func (c *jsonContext) writeStringToBuffer(buf *bytes.Buffer, del []string) {
	if c.tail != nil {
		c.tail.writeStringToBuffer(buf, del)

		if len(del) > 0 {
			buf.WriteString(del[0])
		} else {
			buf.WriteString(".")
		}
	}

	buf.WriteString(c.head)
}