/*
 * Copyright 2018 Scytl Secure Electronic Voting SA
 *
 * All rights reserved
 *
 * See our extended copyright notice in *file 'Copyright.txt' which is part of this source code package
 */
/* jshint node:true */
'use strict';

module.exports = {
  // This function exposes a private one so that the private one can refer to
  // itself without having to worry about the `this` moving target.
  leanCopy: leanCopy,

  // This function will export the working function or an innocuous one
  // depending on
  // whether the platform supports object freezing or not.
  freeze: Object.freeze ? freeze : doNotFreeze,

  // This function will merge multiple objects into a single object.
  merge: merge
};

/**
 * Copies an object's properties into another, leaving out functions and
 * prototypes.
 *
 * The function can be used to return objects, or to modify an existing object,
 * which would then be passed as the second parameter.
 *
 * @function leanCopy
 * @private
 * @param {Object}
 *            src The object to copy from
 * @param {Object}
 *            dest The object to copy to
 * @returns {Object} An object with the same scalar properties as the source,
 *          but stripped of everything else.
 */
function leanCopy(src, dest) {
  if ('undefined' === typeof dest) {
    // Make sure there's a destination object.
    dest = Object.create(null);
  }

  for (var propertyName in src) {
    // Check whether the property is not inherited. Alternatively, check that
    // the `hasOwnProperty` method exists, otherwise the property is not
    // likely to be inherited.
    if (!src.hasOwnProperty || src.hasOwnProperty(propertyName)) {
      var property = src[propertyName];
      if (typeof property === 'object') {
        // Copy onto a new prototype-less object, lean as they come.
        dest[propertyName] = leanCopy(property, Object.create(null));
      } else if (typeof property !== 'function') {
        dest[propertyName] = property;
      }
    }
  }

  // Return a lean copy of the source object.
  return dest;
}

/**
 * Prohibits an object from being frozen.
 *
 * @function doNotFreeze
 * @private
 * @param {Object}
 *            target The object not to freeze.
 * @returns {Object} The object, unfrozen.
 */
function doNotFreeze(target) {
  return target;
}

/**
 * Protects an object and all its contents against modification.
 *
 * @function freeze
 * @private
 * @param {Object}
 *            target The object to freeze.
 * @returns {Object} The object, after being frozen.
 */
function freeze(target) {
  // Get all property names
  var propNames = Object.getOwnPropertyNames(target);

  // Freeze the object's properties.
  propNames.forEach(function(name) {
    var property = target[name];

    // Freeze the properties' properties.
    if (typeof property === 'object' && property !== null) {
      freeze(property);
    }
  });

  // Freeze the object itself.
  return Object.freeze(target);
}

/**
 * Merges all of the objects provided as input into a single object.
 *
 * <p>
 * <b>NOTE</b> This function is a system independent version of the function
 * <code>Object.assign</code>.
 *
 * @function merge
 * @private
 * @returns {Object} The merged objects.
 */
function merge() {
  var resObj = {};
  for (var i = 0; i < arguments.length; i += 1) {
    var obj = arguments[i], keys = Object.keys(obj);
    for (var j = 0; j < keys.length; j += 1) {
      resObj[keys[j]] = obj[keys[j]];
    }
  }

  return resObj;
}