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package org.activiti.engine.impl.util;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.activiti.engine.ActivitiIllegalArgumentException;

/**
 * helper/convenience methods for working with collections.
 * 

 */
public class CollectionUtil {

  // No need to instantiate
  private CollectionUtil() {
  }

  /**
   * Helper method that creates a singleton map.
   * 
   * Alternative for Collections.singletonMap(), since that method returns a generic typed map  depending on the input type, but we often need a  map.
   */
  public static Map singletonMap(String key, Object value) {
    Map map = new HashMap();
    map.put(key, value);
    return map;
  }

  /**
   * Helper method to easily create a map.
   * 
   * Takes as input a varargs containing the key1, value1, key2, value2, etc. Note: although an Object, we will cast the key to String internally.
   */
  public static Map map(Object... objects) {

    if (objects.length % 2 != 0) {
      throw new ActivitiIllegalArgumentException("The input should always be even since we expect a list of key-value pairs!");
    }

    Map map = new HashMap();
    for (int i = 0; i < objects.length; i += 2) {
      map.put((String) objects[i], objects[i + 1]);
    }

    return map;
  }
  
  public static boolean isEmpty(@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") Collection collection) {
    return (collection == null || collection.isEmpty());
  }

  public static boolean isNotEmpty(@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") Collection collection) {
    return !isEmpty(collection);
  }

}