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/* * Copyright 2006-2007 The Scriptella Project Team. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import java.util.Comparator; import java.util.Map; import java.util.Properties; import java.util.TreeMap; /** * Collections utility methods. * * @author Fyodor Kupolov * @version 1.0 */ public final class CollectionUtils { private CollectionUtils() {//Singleton } /** * Comparator similar to {@link String#CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER}, but * handles only ASCII characters */ private static final Comparator<String> ASCII_CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER = new Comparator<String>() { public int compare(String s1, String s2) { int n1 = s1.length(), n2 = s2.length(); int n = n1 < n2 ? n1 : n2; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { char c1 = s1.charAt(i); char c2 = s2.charAt(i); if (c1 != c2) { if (c1 >= 'A' && c1 <= 'Z') { //Fast lower case c1 = (char) (c1 | 0x20); } if (c2 >= 'A' && c2 <= 'Z') { c2 = (char) (c2 | 0x20); } if (c1 != c2) { return c1 - c2; } } } return n1 - n2; } }; /** * Create a map optimized for case insensitive search for keys. * The case insensitive rules are simplified to ASCII chars for performance reasons. * * @return case insensitive map. */ public static <V> Map<String, V> newCaseInsensitiveAsciiMap() { return new TreeMap<String, V>(ASCII_CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER); } /** * Returns parameterized version of {@link Properties} the instance * remains the same. * * @param properties properties to represent as a map. */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public static Map<String, String> asMap(Properties properties) { return (Map) properties; } /** * Converts specified map to {@link java.util.Properties}. The keys and String values * are migrated unchnaged, other types of values are {@link Object#toString() converted to String}. * @param map map to convert. * @return converted map as Properties. */ public static Properties asProperties(Map<String, ?> map) { Properties props = new Properties(); for (Map.Entry<String, ?> entry : map.entrySet()) { Object v = entry.getValue(); if (v != null) { props.put(entry.getKey(), v.toString()); } } return props; } }