Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * Copyright (c) 2009 Stephan Schloepke and innoQ Deutschland GmbH * * Stephan Schloepke: http://www.schloepke.de/ * innoQ Deutschland GmbH: http://www.innoq.com/ * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN * THE SOFTWARE. */ import java.util.Collections; import java.util.LinkedHashMap; import java.util.Map; public class Main { /** * Join the two given maps to one by checking if one of the two maps already fulfills everything. Be aware that the * newly created collection is unmodifiable but will change if the underlying collections change! * * @param <K> The key type * @param <V> The value type * @param first The first {@link Map} to join * @param second The second {@link Map} to join * * @return A {@link Map} with the joined content (can be one of the given map if the other is empty or null) */ public static <K, V> Map<K, V> joinMapUnmodifiable(Map<K, V> first, Map<K, V> second) { if (first == null || first.isEmpty()) { if (second == null || second.isEmpty()) { return Collections.emptyMap(); } else { return Collections.unmodifiableMap(second); } } else if (second == null || second.isEmpty()) { return Collections.unmodifiableMap(first); } else { Map<K, V> temp = new LinkedHashMap<K, V>(first.size() + second.size()); temp.putAll(first); temp.putAll(second); return Collections.unmodifiableMap(temp); } } }