import { Action } from './scheduler/Action';
import { Subscription } from './Subscription';
import { SchedulerLike, SchedulerAction } from './types';

/**
 * An execution context and a data structure to order tasks and schedule their
 * execution. Provides a notion of (potentially virtual) time, through the
 * `now()` getter method.
 *
 * Each unit of work in a Scheduler is called an `Action`.
 *
 * ```ts
 * class Scheduler {
 *   now(): number;
 *   schedule(work, delay?, state?): Subscription;
 * }
 * ```
 *
 * @class Scheduler
 * @deprecated Scheduler is an internal implementation detail of RxJS, and
 * should not be used directly. Rather, create your own class and implement
 * {@link SchedulerLike}
 */
export class Scheduler implements SchedulerLike {

  /**
   * Note: the extra arrow function wrapper is to make testing by overriding
   * Date.now easier.
   * @nocollapse
   */
  public static now: () => number = () => Date.now();

  constructor(private SchedulerAction: typeof Action,
              now: () => number = Scheduler.now) {
    this.now = now;
  }

  /**
   * A getter method that returns a number representing the current time
   * (at the time this function was called) according to the scheduler's own
   * internal clock.
   * @return {number} A number that represents the current time. May or may not
   * have a relation to wall-clock time. May or may not refer to a time unit
   * (e.g. milliseconds).
   */
  public now: () => number;

  /**
   * Schedules a function, `work`, for execution. May happen at some point in
   * the future, according to the `delay` parameter, if specified. May be passed
   * some context object, `state`, which will be passed to the `work` function.
   *
   * The given arguments will be processed an stored as an Action object in a
   * queue of actions.
   *
   * @param {function(state: ?T): ?Subscription} work A function representing a
   * task, or some unit of work to be executed by the Scheduler.
   * @param {number} [delay] Time to wait before executing the work, where the
   * time unit is implicit and defined by the Scheduler itself.
   * @param {T} [state] Some contextual data that the `work` function uses when
   * called by the Scheduler.
   * @return {Subscription} A subscription in order to be able to unsubscribe
   * the scheduled work.
   */
  public schedule<T>(work: (this: SchedulerAction<T>, state?: T) => void, delay: number = 0, state?: T): Subscription {
    return new this.SchedulerAction<T>(this, work).schedule(state, delay);
  }
}