/*
* Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Alfresco Software Limited.
*
* This file is part of Alfresco
*
* Alfresco 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 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* Alfresco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* 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 Alfresco. If not, see .
*/
package org.alfresco.util;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName;
import org.alfresco.util.Pair;
/**
* Property map helper class.
*
* This class can be used as a short hand when a class of type
* Map is required.
*
* @author Roy Wetherall
*/
public class PropertyMap extends HashMap
{
private static final long serialVersionUID = 8052326301073209645L;
/**
* A static empty map to us when having to deal with nulls
*/
public static final Map EMPTY_MAP = Collections.emptyMap();
/**
* @see HashMap#HashMap(int, float)
*/
public PropertyMap(int initialCapacity, float loadFactor)
{
super(initialCapacity, loadFactor);
}
/**
* @see HashMap#HashMap(int)
*/
public PropertyMap(int initialCapacity)
{
super(initialCapacity);
}
/**
* @see HashMap#HashMap()
*/
public PropertyMap()
{
super();
}
/**
* Utility method to remove unchanged entries from each map.
*
* @param before the properties before (may be null)
* @param after the properties after (may be null)
* @return Return a map of values that changed from before to after.
* The before value is first and the after value is second.
*
* @since 3.2
*/
public static Pair