using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace WPFCatalog
{
    public abstract class ViewModelBase : GalaSoft.MvvmLight.ViewModelBase, INotifyPropertyChanged, IDisposable
    {

        #region Constructor

        protected ViewModelBase()
        {
        }

        #endregion // Constructor

        #region DisplayName

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the user-friendly name of this object.
        /// Child classes can set this property to a new value,
        /// or override it to determine the value on-demand.
        /// </summary>
        public virtual string DisplayName { get; protected set; }

        #endregion // DisplayName

        #region Debugging Aides

        ///// <summary>
        ///// Warns the developer if this object does not have
        ///// a public property with the specified name. This 
        ///// method does not exist in a Release build.
        ///// </summary>
        //[Conditional("DEBUG")]
        //[DebuggerStepThrough]
        //public void VerifyPropertyName(string propertyName)
        //{
        //    // Verify that the property name matches a real,  
        //    // public, instance property on this object.
        //    if (TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(this)[propertyName] == null)
        //    {
        //        string msg = "Invalid property name: " + propertyName;

        //        if (this.ThrowOnInvalidPropertyName)
        //            throw new Exception(msg);
        //        else
        //            Debug.Fail(msg);
        //    }
        //}

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns whether an exception is thrown, or if a Debug.Fail() is used
        /// when an invalid property name is passed to the VerifyPropertyName method.
        /// The default value is false, but subclasses used by unit tests might 
        /// override this property's getter to return true.
        /// </summary>
        protected virtual bool ThrowOnInvalidPropertyName { get; private set; }

        #endregion // Debugging Aides



        #region INotifyPropertyChanged Members

        /// <summary>
        /// Raised when a property on this object has a new value.
        /// </summary>
        //public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

        ///// <summary>
        ///// Raises this object's PropertyChanged event.
        ///// </summary>
        ///// <param name="propertyName">The property that has a new value.</param>
        //protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName)
        //{
        //    this.VerifyPropertyName(propertyName);

        //    PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = this.PropertyChanged;
        //    if (handler != null)
        //    {
        //        var e = new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName);
        //        handler(this, e);
        //    }
        //}

        #endregion // INotifyPropertyChanged Members

        #region IDisposable Members

        /// <summary>
        /// Invoked when this object is being removed from the application
        /// and will be subject to garbage collection.
        /// </summary>
        public void Dispose()
        {
            this.OnDispose();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Child classes can override this method to perform 
        /// clean-up logic, such as removing event handlers.
        /// </summary>
        protected virtual void OnDispose()
        {
        }

#if DEBUG
        /// <summary>
        /// Useful for ensuring that ViewModel objects are properly garbage collected.
        /// </summary>
        ~ViewModelBase()
        {
            string msg = string.Format("{0} ({1}) ({2}) Finalized", this.GetType().Name, this.DisplayName, this.GetHashCode());
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(msg);
        }
#endif

        #endregion // IDisposable Members

    }
}