org.jasig.portal.services.persondir.support.merger
Class ReplacingAttributeAdder

java.lang.Object
  org.jasig.portal.services.persondir.support.merger.ReplacingAttributeAdder

All Implemented Interfaces:

IAttributeMerger

public class ReplacingAttributeAdder
extends java.lang.Object
implements IAttributeMerger

Attribute merge strategy whereby considered attributes over-write previously set values for attributes with colliding names.

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $ $Date: 2004/12/13 23:27:38 $

Author:

andrew.petro@yale.edu

Constructor Summary

ReplacingAttributeAdder()

Method Summary

java.util.Map

mergeAttributes(java.util.Map toModify, java.util.Map toConsider) Simply puts all the values in toConsider into toModify and returns toModify.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ReplacingAttributeAdder

public ReplacingAttributeAdder()

Method Detail

mergeAttributes

public java.util.Map mergeAttributes(java.util.Map toModify,
                                     java.util.Map toConsider)

Simply puts all the values in toConsider into toModify and returns toModify. This means that for keys in both toConsider and toModify, the value in toConsider will be controlling.

Specified by:

mergeAttributes in interface IAttributeMerger

Parameters:

toModify - - the Map we are to modify

toConsider - - the Map we are to consider in modifying toModify

Returns:

the result of toModify.putAll(toConsider)