from types import UnicodeType

def gqn(val):

    """

    The geographic quote name function; used for quoting tables and 

    geometries (they use single rather than the double quotes of the

    backend quotename function).

    """

    if isinstance(val, basestring):

        if isinstance(val, UnicodeType): val = val.encode('ascii')

        return "'%s'" % val

    else:

        return str(val)

class SpatialOperation(object):

    """

    Base class for generating spatial SQL.

    """

    def __init__(self, function='', operator='', result='', beg_subst='', end_subst=''):

        self.function = function

        self.operator = operator

        self.result = result

        self.beg_subst = beg_subst

        try:

            # Try and put the operator and result into to the

            # end substitution.

            self.end_subst = end_subst % (operator, result)

        except TypeError:

            self.end_subst = end_subst

    @property

    def sql_subst(self):

        return ''.join([self.beg_subst, self.end_subst])

    def as_sql(self, geo_col):

        return self.sql_subst % self.params(geo_col)

    def params(self, geo_col):

        return (geo_col, self.operator)

class SpatialFunction(SpatialOperation):

    """

    Base class for generating spatial SQL related to a function.

    """

    def __init__(self, func, beg_subst='%s(%s, %%s', end_subst=')', result='', operator=''):

        # Getting the function prefix.

        kwargs = {'function' : func, 'operator' : operator, 'result' : result,

                  'beg_subst' : beg_subst, 'end_subst' : end_subst,}

        super(SpatialFunction, self).__init__(**kwargs)

    def params(self, geo_col):

        return (self.function, geo_col)