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/******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2008 Ralf Ebert * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors: * Ralf Ebert - initial API and implementation *******************************************************************************/ package com.swtxml.util.lang; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Collection; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.HashSet; import java.util.List; import java.util.Set; import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils; import com.swtxml.util.reflector.ReflectorException; public class CollectionUtils { /** * Returns the first element from iterable for which filter.match(element) * returned true. */ public static <A> A find(Iterable<? extends A> iterable, IFilter<A> filter) { for (A a : iterable) { if (filter.match(a)) { return a; } } return null; } /** * Returns a new collection containing all elements from collection for * which filter.match(element) returned true. */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public static <A> Collection<A> select(Collection<? extends A> collection, IFilter<A> filter) { Collection<A> resultList = createCollection(collection); for (A a : collection) { if (filter.match(a)) { resultList.add(a); } } return resultList; } /** * Returns a new collection containing the result from * function.apply(element) for all elements from collection. */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public static <FROM, TO> Collection<TO> collect(Collection<? extends FROM> collection, IFunction<FROM, TO> function) { Collection<TO> resultList = createCollection(collection); for (FROM a : collection) { resultList.add(function.apply(a)); } return resultList; } /** * Returns a new list containing the result from function.apply(element) for * all elements from list. */ public static <FROM, TO> List<TO> collect(List<? extends FROM> list, IFunction<FROM, TO> function) { List<TO> resultList = new ArrayList<TO>(); for (FROM a : list) { resultList.add(function.apply(a)); } return resultList; } /** * Returns a comma-separated String of the collection toString values * alphabetically sorted by value. */ public static String sortedToString(Collection<?> collection) { List<String> strings = new ArrayList<String>(collect(collection, Functions.TO_STRING)); Collections.sort(strings); return StringUtils.join(strings, ", "); } @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") private static Collection createCollection(Collection original) { if (original instanceof Set) { return new HashSet(); } if (original instanceof Collection) { return new ArrayList(); } throw new ReflectorException("Unknown collection type: " + original.getClass()); } }