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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+ * All rights reserved.
+ * This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+ * under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+ * at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+ *
+ * Initial Contributors:
+ * Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *
+ * Description:  
+ *
+ */
+package com.nokia.helium.metadata.ant.types;
+
+import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.types.EnumeratedAttribute;
+
+/**
+ * Defines an Ant enumerated type for the severity. 
+ */
+public class SeverityEnum extends EnumeratedAttribute {
+
+    /**
+     * Defines a list of enumerated severities.
+     */
+    public enum Severity {
+        FATAL("FATAL"), ERROR("ERROR"), CRITICAL("CRITICAL"), WARNING("WARNING"), REMARK(
+                "REMARK"), INFO("INFO"), NONE("NONE");
+        
+        private final String value;
+
+        Severity(String value) {
+            this.value = value;
+        }
+
+        public String toString() {
+            return this.value;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static String[] values;
+    
+    static {
+        // Let's support upper case and lower case string.
+        values = new String[Severity.values().length * 2];
+        int i = 0;
+        for (Severity severity : Severity.values()) {
+            values[i++] = severity.toString();
+            values[i++] = severity.toString().toLowerCase();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the list of supported severity types.
+     * @return List of supported severity types.
+     */
+    @Override
+    public String[] getValues() {
+        return values;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the severity as a Severity enum.
+     * @return The severity value.
+     */
+    public Severity getSeverity() {
+        for (Severity severity : Severity.values()) {
+            if (severity.toString().equalsIgnoreCase(getValue())) {
+                return severity;
+            }
+        }
+        throw new BuildException("Invalid severity: " + getValue());
+    }
+
+}