libjava/classpath/gnu/java/util/prefs/MemoryBasedPreferences.java

/* MemoryBasedPreferences - A Preference node which holds all entries in memory
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package gnu.java.util.prefs;

import java.util.HashMap;

import java.util.prefs.*;

/**
 * A Preference node which holds all entries in memory
 *
 * @author Mark Wielaard (mark@klomp.org)
 */
public class MemoryBasedPreferences extends AbstractPreferences {

    /** True if this is a preference node in the user tree, false otherwise. */
    private final boolean isUser;

    /** Contains all the preference entries of this node. */
    private HashMap<String, String> entries = new HashMap<String, String>();

    /**
     * Creates a new preferences node with the given name and parent.
     * When isUser is true it will be user node otherwise it will be a system
     * node. It will always set the <code>newNode</code> field to true
     * since there is no real backing store, so all nodes are new.
     */
    public MemoryBasedPreferences(MemoryBasedPreferences parent,
                                  String name,
                                  boolean isUser) {
        super(parent, name);
        this.isUser = isUser;

        // Since we do not have a real backing store all nodes are new
        newNode = true;
    }

    /**
     * Returns true if this node was created as a user node.
     */
    public boolean isUserNode() {
        return isUser;
    }

    /**
     * Returns an empty array since all children names are always already
     * cached.
     */
    protected String[] childrenNamesSpi() throws BackingStoreException {
        return new String[0];
    }

    /**
     * Returns a new node with the given name with as parent this node and
     * with the <code>isUser</code> flag set to the same value as this node.
     */
    protected AbstractPreferences childSpi(String childName) {
       return new MemoryBasedPreferences(this, childName, isUser);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a (possibly empty) array of keys of the preferences entries of
     * this node.
     */
    protected String[] keysSpi() throws BackingStoreException {
        return entries.keySet().toArray(new String[entries.size()]);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the associated value from this nodes preferences entries or
     * null when the key has not been set.
     */
    protected String getSpi(String key) {
        return entries.get(key);
    }

    /**
     * Sets the value for the given key.
     */
    protected void putSpi(String key, String value) {
        entries.put(key, value);
    }

    /**
     * Removes the entry with the given key.
     */
    protected void removeSpi(String key) {
        entries.remove(key);
    }

    /**
     * Does nothing since we do not have any backing store.
     */
    protected void flushSpi() {
    }

    /**
     * Does nothing since we do not have any backing store.
     */
    protected void syncSpi() {
    }

    /**
     * Just removes the entries map of this node.
     */
    protected void removeNodeSpi() {
        entries = null;
    }
}