package com.c2kernel.utils;

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


// This subclass of hashtable can be marshalled
// and unmarshalled with Castor
public class CastorHashMap extends HashMap<String,Object>
{
    public CastorHashMap()
    {
        clear();
    }

    public KeyValuePair[] getKeyValuePairs()
    {
        int            numKeys       = size();

        KeyValuePair[] keyValuePairs = new KeyValuePair[numKeys];
        Iterator<String> keyIter     = keySet().iterator();
        int            i             = 0;

        for(i=0; i<numKeys; i++)
            if (keyIter.hasNext())
            {
                String tmp = keyIter.next();
                keyValuePairs[i]   = new KeyValuePair(tmp,get(tmp));
            }

        return keyValuePairs;
    }


    public void setKeyValuePairs(KeyValuePair[] keyValuePairs)
    {
        int i = 0;

        // Clears this hashtable so that it contains no keys
        clear();

        // Put each key value pair into this hashtable
        for(i=0; i<keyValuePairs.length; i++)
        {
            setKeyValuePair(keyValuePairs[i]);
        }
    }

    public void setKeyValuePair(KeyValuePair keyValuePair)
    {
	    put(keyValuePair.getKey(), keyValuePair.getValue());
    }

}