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/* * Copyright 2004-2010 Information & Software Engineering Group (188/1) * Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems * Vienna University of Technology, Austria * * 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.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dm/somtoolbox/license.html * * 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. */ package at.tuwien.ifs.somtoolbox.util; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Collection; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.HashSet; import java.util.Map; /** * Utility methods related to collections. * * @author Rudolf Mayer * @version $Id: CollectionUtils.java 4169 2011-02-13 22:48:16Z mayer $ */ public class CollectionUtils { /** Returns two ArrayLists, containing the elements only present in the first and second argument, respectively. */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public static ArrayList<String>[] getUniqueElements(Collection<? extends String> list1, Collection<? extends String> list2) { final ArrayList<String> onlyInOne = new ArrayList<String>(list1); onlyInOne.removeAll(list2); Collections.sort(onlyInOne); final ArrayList<String> onlyInTwo = new ArrayList<String>(list2); onlyInTwo.removeAll(list1); Collections.sort(onlyInTwo); return new ArrayList[] { onlyInOne, onlyInTwo }; } public static ArrayList<String>[] getUniqueElements(String[] array1, String[] array2) { return getUniqueElements(Arrays.asList(array1), Arrays.asList(array2)); } public static HashSet<String> getOrCreateValue(Map<String, HashSet<String>> map, String key) { if (map.get(key) == null) { map.put(key, new HashSet<String>()); } return map.get(key); } public static HashMap<String, Integer> getOrCreateValue(HashMap<Integer, HashMap<String, Integer>> map, Integer key) { if (map.get(key) == null) { map.put(key, new HashMap<String, Integer>()); } return map.get(key); } public static int indexOf(ArrayList<String> list, String value) { for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) { String name = list.get(i); if (value.equals(name)) { return i; } } return -1; } public static <E> ArrayList<E> toList(E... contents) { ArrayList<E> list = new ArrayList<E>(); org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils.addAll(list, contents); return list; } }