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package org.activiti.engine.impl.util;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import org.activiti.engine.ActivitiIllegalArgumentException;
/**
* helper/convience methods for working with collections.
*
* @author Joram Barrez
*/
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: altough 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