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1   /*
2    * Copyright 2003,2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
3    * 
4    * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5    * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6    * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7    * 
8    *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9    * 
10   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11   * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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13   * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14   * limitations under the License.
15   */
16  /* 
17  
18   */
19  
20  package org.apache.pluto.portalImpl.om.common.impl;
21  
22  import java.util.Collection;
23  import java.util.HashMap;
24  import java.util.Iterator;
25  
26  import org.apache.pluto.om.common.Preference;
27  
28  public class PreferenceUtil {
29  
30      /***
31       * Returns the preferences as map with name as the preference's name and value as
32       * the preference object itself.
33       * 
34       * @param preferences the preferences to be converted
35       * @return the preferences as map
36       */
37      static public HashMap createPreferenceMap(Collection preferences)
38      {
39          HashMap returnValue = new HashMap();
40          Iterator iterator = preferences.iterator();
41          while (iterator.hasNext()) {
42              Preference preference = (Preference)iterator.next();            
43              returnValue.put(preference.getName(), preference.getValues());
44          }
45          return returnValue;
46      }
47  
48  }