com.endeca.navigation
Class PropertyMap

java.lang.Object
  java.util.AbstractMap
      com.endeca.navigation.PropertyMap

All Implemented Interfaces:

Map

public class PropertyMap
extends AbstractMap
implements Map

Class providing access to a collection of properties. PropertyMap offers an interfaces to allow the most flexible usage of the properties. PropertyMap exposes itself as a Java Map collection giving direct access to the values via the keys.

In addition, the PropertyMap class also offers methods to provide multi map behavior via getValues since a property set can include many values with the same key.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface java.util.Map

Map.Entry<K,V>

Method Summary

Set	entrySet() Gets the set of all properties in this property map
Collection	getValues(String key) Gets the values associated with this key.

Methods inherited from class java.util.AbstractMap

clear, clone, containsKey, containsValue, equals, get, hashCode, isEmpty, keySet, put, putAll, remove, size, toString, values

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Map

clear, containsKey, containsValue, equals, get, hashCode, isEmpty, keySet, put, putAll, remove, size, values

Method Detail

getValues

public Collection getValues(String key)

Gets the values associated with this key. This method offers features over the regular get method only when there are more than one property in the PropertyMap with the same key.

Returns:

A iterator for all the values associated with the key. Returns null when no values are associated with key.

entrySet

public Set entrySet()

Gets the set of all properties in this property map

Specified by:

entrySet in interface Map

Specified by:

entrySet in class AbstractMap

Returns:

The set of all properties.