## Copyright (C) 2011 Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com>
## Copyright (c) 2011 Juan Pablo Carbajal <carbajal@ifi.uzh.ch>
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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## (at your option) any later version.
##
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## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{paths} = } getpath (@var{ids})
## Returns paths in @var{ids}.
##
## @end deftypefn

function paths = getpath(obj, varargin)

  if !isempty(varargin)
  
    ids = varargin;
    if iscell (ids) && numel(ids) == 1 && iscell(ids{1}) % dealing with ids given as cell
      ids = ids{1};

      if !all ( cellfun (@ischar, ids) )
       print_usage
      end

    elseif !all ( cellfun (@ischar, ids) )
     print_usage
    end
    
  else
    paths = obj.Path;
    return
  end

  tf = ismember (ids, fieldnames (obj.Path));

  cellfun (@(s) printf("'%s' is not a valid path id.\n", s) , {ids{!tf}});

  paths = [];
  if any (tf)
    stuff = {ids{tf}};
    
    for i = 1: numel(stuff)
      paths{i} = obj.Path.(ids{i}).data;
    endfor
    
    
    % Variation
%    paths = cellfun(@(s) obj.Path.(s).data, stuff,'UniformOutput',false);
    
    % Another variation
%    paths = cellfun(@(s) getfield(obj,'Path').(s).data, stuff,'UniformOutput',false);
    
    % Yet another
%    paths = cellfun(@(s) getfield(obj.Path,s).data, stuff,'UniformOutput',false);    

    % Yet yet another
%    dummy = @(s) obj.Path.(s).data;
%    paths = cellfun(dummy, stuff,'UniformOutput',false);    
    
    if numel(paths) == 1
      paths = paths{1};
    end
  end

endfunction

