#ifndef _DBENTITY_H
#define _DBENTITY_H

#include "DBObject.h"

//Entities are physical named items: Products, Companies, etc.
//as oppossed to Articles *about* those entities (see below)
//Every entity has a table with the same name + other table(s) to describe it
//these objects are also loaded by the entity list as well as created to be written back to the DB
class DBEntity: public DBObject {
	vector<const char*> m_names;
	const char         *m_name;
	const bool          m_commonword;
	const size_t        m_nameLength;

	size_t parseName();

	friend class TIPsDatabase;

public:
	DBEntity(TIPsDatabase *_db, const char *_name, const bool _commonword, const unsigned int _id);
	DBEntity(TIPsDatabase *_db, const InternetResource *_ir, const char *_name);
	virtual ~DBEntity();

	const char *firstname()  const {return m_names[0];}
	const char *name()       const {return m_name;}
	size_t      nameLength() const {return m_nameLength;}
	bool        commonword() const {return m_commonword;}
};

#endif