Append, filter and get the size of collections : Collection « Collections Data Structure « Java

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2. Collections Data Structure
3. Collection

Append, filter and get the size of collections

   
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import java.lang.reflect.Array;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

/**
 * A number of helper methods for working with collections
 *
 * @version $Revision: 747062 $
 */
public final class CollectionHelper {

    /**
     * Utility classes should not have a public constructor.
     */
    private CollectionHelper() {
    }

    /**
     * Returns the size of the collection if it can be determined to be a collection
     *
     * @param value the collection
     * @return the size, or <tt>null</tt> if not a collection
     */
    public static Integer size(Object value) {
        if (value != null) {
            if (value instanceof Collection) {
                Collection collection = (Collection)value;
                return collection.size();
            } else if (value instanceof Map) {
                Map map = (Map)value;
                return map.size();
            } else if (value instanceof Object[]) {
                Object[] array = (Object[])value;
                return array.length;
            } else if (value.getClass().isArray()) {
                return Array.getLength(value);
            } else if (value instanceof NodeList) {
                NodeList nodeList = (NodeList)value;
                return nodeList.getLength();
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the value of the entry in the map for the given key, though if the
     * map already contains a value for the given key then the value is appended
     * to a list of values.
     *
     * @param map the map to add the entry to
     * @param key the key in the map
     * @param value the value to put in the map
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static void appendValue(Map map, Object key, Object value) {
        Object oldValue = map.get(key);
        if (oldValue != null) {
            List list;
            if (oldValue instanceof List) {
                list = (List)oldValue;
            } else {
                list = new ArrayList();
                list.add(oldValue);
            }
            list.add(value);
        } else {
            map.put(key, value);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Filters the given list to skip instanceof filter objects.
     * 
     * @param list  the list
     * @param filters  objects to skip
     * @return a new list without the filtered objects
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static List filterList(List list, Object... filters) {
        List answer = new ArrayList();
        for (Object o : list) {
            for (Object filter : filters) {
                if (!o.getClass().isInstance(filter)) {
                    answer.add(o);
                }
            }
        }
        return answer;
    }

    public static String collectionAsCommaDelimitedString(String[] col) {
        if (col == null || col.length == 0) {
            return "";
        }
        return collectionAsCommaDelimitedString(Arrays.asList(col));
    }

    public static String collectionAsCommaDelimitedString(Collection col) {
        if (col == null || col.isEmpty()) {
            return "";
        }

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        Iterator it = col.iterator();
        while (it.hasNext()) {
            sb.append(it.next());
            if (it.hasNext()) {
                sb.append(",");
            }
        }

        return sb.toString();
    }
    
}

   
    
    
  

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