ASF_20_SRC_AUTO/src/blocks/portal/java/org/apache/cocoon/portal/pluto/om/common/PreferenceUtil.java

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package org.apache.cocoon.portal.pluto.om.common;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.apache.pluto.om.common.Preference;

/**
 * 
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:cziegeler@apache.org">Carsten Ziegeler</a>
 * 
 * @version CVS $Id: PreferenceUtil.java,v 1.3 2004/03/05 13:02:15 bdelacretaz Exp $
 */
public class PreferenceUtil {

    /**
     * Returns the preferences as map with name as the preference's name and value as
     * the preference object itself.
     * 
     * @param preferences the preferences to be converted
     * @return the preferences as map
     */
    static public HashMap createPreferenceMap(Collection preferences)
    {
        HashMap returnValue = new HashMap();
        Iterator iterator = preferences.iterator();
        while (iterator.hasNext()) {
            Preference preference = (Preference)iterator.next();            
            returnValue.put(preference.getName(), preference.getValues());
        }
        return returnValue;
    }

}