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/* * See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional * information regarding copyright ownership. * * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. */ package org.phenotips.data; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.LinkedList; import java.util.List; import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils; import org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.ImmutablePair; import org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.Pair; /** * Class for representing {@link PatientData patient data} organized as a list of simple key-value pairs, where the key * is a string (name) and the value is an object of a specific type. This list is immutable, and the each pair in the * list is also immutable; but the immutability of the values is not guaranteed, although recommended. * * @param <T> the type of data being managed by this component; since this is a list of key-value pairs, this refers to * the type of the values stored on the right side of the pairs * @version $Id: baca4edb25761e6199f804a047dc3b74184717d9 $ * @since 1.0M10 */ public class SimpleNamedData<T> extends LinkedList<ImmutablePair<String, T>> implements PatientData<ImmutablePair<String, T>> { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; private final String name; /** * Default constructor copying the values from a list. * * @param name the name of this data * @param data the list of values to represent; an immutable version of the list is used internally and returned */ public SimpleNamedData(String name, List<ImmutablePair<String, T>> data) { super(Collections.unmodifiableList(data)); this.name = name; } @Override public String getName() { return this.name; } /** * Shortcut method for getting a value from this list, the first one where the key is equal to the requested name. * * @param name the name of the entry to retrieve * @return the value found in the pair with the key equal to the requested name; if more than one such pairs exists, * the value from the first one is returned; if no such pair exists, {@code null} is returned */ public T get(String name) { for (Pair<String, T> entry : this) { if (StringUtils.equals(entry.getKey(), name)) { return entry.getValue(); } } return null; } }