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/*
 * Metadata - jQuery plugin for parsing metadata from elements
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2006 John Resig, Yehuda Katz, Jￜörn Zaefferer, Paul McLanahan
 *
 * Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:
 *   http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 *   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
 *
 * Revision: $Id: jquery.metadata.js 4187 2007-12-16 17:15:27Z joern.zaefferer $
 *
 */

/**
 * Sets the type of metadata to use. Metadata is encoded in JSON, and each property
 * in the JSON will become a property of the element itself.
 *
 * There are three supported types of metadata storage:
 *
 *   attr:  Inside an attribute. The name parameter indicates *which* attribute.
 *          
 *   class: Inside the class attribute, wrapped in curly braces: { }
 *   
 *   elem:  Inside a child element (e.g. a script tag). The
 *          name parameter indicates *which* element.
 *          
 * The metadata for an element is loaded the first time the element is accessed via jQuery.
 *
 * As a result, you can define the metadata type, use $(expr) to load the metadata into the elements
 * matched by expr, then redefine the metadata type and run another $(expr) for other elements.
 * 
 * @name $.metadata.setType
 *
 * @example <p id="one" class="some_class {item_id: 1, item_label: 'Label'}">This is a p</p>
 * @before $.metadata.setType("class")
 * @after $("#one").metadata().item_id == 1; $("#one").metadata().item_label == "Label"
 * @desc Reads metadata from the class attribute
 * 
 * @example <p id="one" class="some_class" data="{item_id: 1, item_label: 'Label'}">This is a p</p>
 * @before $.metadata.setType("attr", "data")
 * @after $("#one").metadata().item_id == 1; $("#one").metadata().item_label == "Label"
 * @desc Reads metadata from a "data" attribute
 * 
 * @example <p id="one" class="some_class"><script>{item_id: 1, item_label: 'Label'}</script>This is a p</p>
 * @before $.metadata.setType("elem", "script")
 * @after $("#one").metadata().item_id == 1; $("#one").metadata().item_label == "Label"
 * @desc Reads metadata from a nested script element
 * 
 * @param String type The encoding type
 * @param String name The name of the attribute to be used to get metadata (optional)
 * @cat Plugins/Metadata
 * @descr Sets the type of encoding to be used when loading metadata for the first time
 * @type undefined
 * @see metadata()
 */

(function($) {

$.extend({
        metadata : {
                defaults : {
                        type: 'class',
                        name: 'metadata',
                        cre: /({.*})/,
                        single: 'metadata'
                },
                setType: function( type, name ){
                        this.defaults.type = type;
                        this.defaults.name = name;
                },
                get: function( elem, opts ){
                        var settings = $.extend({},this.defaults,opts);
                        // check for empty string in single property
                        if ( !settings.single.length ) settings.single = 'metadata';
                        
                        var data = $.data(elem, settings.single);
                        // returned cached data if it already exists
                        if ( data ) return data;
                        
                        data = "{}";
                        
                        if ( settings.type == "class" ) {
                                var m = settings.cre.exec( elem.className );
                                if ( m )
                                        data = m[1];
                        } else if ( settings.type == "elem" ) {
                                if( !elem.getElementsByTagName )
                                        return undefined;
                                var e = elem.getElementsByTagName(settings.name);
                                if ( e.length )
                                        data = $.trim(e[0].innerHTML);
                        } else if ( elem.getAttribute != undefined ) {
                                var attr = elem.getAttribute( settings.name );
                                if ( attr )
                                        data = attr;
                        }
                        
                        if ( data.indexOf( '{' ) <0 )
                        data = "{" + data + "}";
                        
                        data = eval("(" + data + ")");
                        
                        $.data( elem, settings.single, data );
                        return data;
                }
        }
});

/**
 * Returns the metadata object for the first member of the jQuery object.
 *
 * @name metadata
 * @descr Returns element's metadata object
 * @param Object opts An object contianing settings to override the defaults
 * @type jQuery
 * @cat Plugins/Metadata
 */
$.fn.metadata = function( opts ){
        return $.metadata.get( this[0], opts );
};

})(jQuery);