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Oracle® Information Rights Management Server Java API Reference
11g Release 1 (11.1.1)

E12907-03


oracle.irm.engine.rights.context
Class ContextInstanceCollectionFactory

java.lang.Object
  extended by oracle.irm.engine.rights.context.ContextInstanceCollectionFactory


public final class ContextInstanceCollectionFactory
extends Object

Context Instance collection factory and utilities. This class provides methods for creating new instances of ContextInstance collections as well as providing a number of collection based utility methods and fields. These methods are provided mainly for convenience and to provide a consistent way to create Context Instance collections. Methods that take collection parameters make no assumptions about what collection implementation is used, so the use of these factory style methods is at the developers discretion.


Field Summary
static Collection<ContextInstance> EMPTY_CONTEXT_INSTANCES
          An empty Context Instance collection.

 

Method Summary
static Map<UUID,ContextInstance> contextInstancesAsMap(Collection<ContextInstance> collection)
          Create a map keyed on Uuid from a collection of Context Instance elements.
static Set<ContextInstance> contextInstancesAsSet(Collection<ContextInstance> collection)
          Create a set of Context Instance elements from a collection.
static Collection<ContextInstance> copyContextInstances(Collection<ContextInstance> collection)
          Create a shallow copy of a Context Instance collection.
static Collection<ContextInstance> createContextInstances(ContextInstance... elements)
          Create a Context Instance collection containing zero or more elements.
static Collection<ContextInstance> createContextInstances(int capacity)
          Create an empty Context Instance collection with a capacity specified.
static ContextInstance getContextInstanceByUuid(Collection<ContextInstance> collection, UUID key)
          Get an element from a Context Instance collection by Uuid.
static Collection<ContextInstance> unmodifiableContextInstances(Collection<ContextInstance> value)
          Create an immutable shallow copy of a Context Instance collection.

 

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

 

Field Detail

EMPTY_CONTEXT_INSTANCES

public static final Collection<ContextInstance> EMPTY_CONTEXT_INSTANCES
An empty Context Instance collection. This empty collection is immutable. This field is useful if a method requires a collection argument but the caller wants to supply an empty collection. Using this field value rather than passing null can aid code clarity.

Method Detail

createContextInstances

public static Collection<ContextInstance> createContextInstances(ContextInstance... elements)
Create a Context Instance collection containing zero or more elements. Creates a collection and adds all of the provided elements into the specified collection. This method is provided as a convenience method as it allows creation of an empty collection, a collection with one element or a collection with many elements (all in one line of code).
Parameters:
elements - The elements to add into the collection.
Returns:
The collection containing the specified elements. If no elements are provided an empty collection is returned.

createContextInstances

public static Collection<ContextInstance> createContextInstances(int capacity)
Create an empty Context Instance collection with a capacity specified. Creates an empty collection with an initial capacity for n elements.
Parameters:
capacity - The initial collection capacity.
Returns:
The empty collection with the specified capacity.

copyContextInstances

public static Collection<ContextInstance> copyContextInstances(Collection<ContextInstance> collection)
Create a shallow copy of a Context Instance collection. A shallow copy creates a new collection which contains the elements of the provided collection.
Parameters:
collection - The collection to copy.
Returns:
The copy of the collection. If the provided collection is null, an empty collection is returned.

contextInstancesAsSet

public static Set<ContextInstance> contextInstancesAsSet(Collection<ContextInstance> collection)
Create a set of Context Instance elements from a collection. Context Instance objects can be logically compared using equals. When adding Context Instance objects into a set duplicates will be removed.
Parameters:
collection - The collection to copy.
Returns:
The set. If the provided collection is null, an empty set is returned.

unmodifiableContextInstances

public static Collection<ContextInstance> unmodifiableContextInstances(Collection<ContextInstance> value)
Create an immutable shallow copy of a Context Instance collection. Context Instance objects are immutable (cannot be changed once created). An immutable collection of Context Instance elements can therefore be treated as immutable (neither the collection or elements can be changed once created).
Parameters:
value - The collection to copy.
Returns:
The immutable collection. If the provided collection is null, an empty collection is returned.

contextInstancesAsMap

public static Map<UUID,ContextInstance> contextInstancesAsMap(Collection<ContextInstance> collection)
Create a map keyed on Uuid from a collection of Context Instance elements. This method creates a map of Context Instance elements, using the Uuid property as the map key. The map will contain a snap shot of the elements from the provided collection. Any changes to the collection after calling this method are not reflected in the map. If the collection contains duplicate elements the map will contain the element that is returned last from the collection's iterator.
Parameters:
collection - The collection to convert to a map.
Returns:
A map. If the provided collection is null, an empty map is returned.

getContextInstanceByUuid

public static ContextInstance getContextInstanceByUuid(Collection<ContextInstance> collection,
                                                       UUID key)
Get an element from a Context Instance collection by Uuid. This method searches the collection for the first instance of a Context Instance that matches the provided Uuid (first in terms of the order of elements returned by the collection iterator).
Parameters:
collection - The collection.
key - The key.
Returns:
The element, or null if the element with that key value does not exist.

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