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

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

IAttributeMerger

public class ReplacingAttributeAdder
extends BaseAdditiveAttributeMerger

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

Version:

$Revision$ $Date$

Author:

andrew.petro@yale.edu

Constructor Summary

ReplacingAttributeAdder()

Method Summary

protected Map<String,List<Object>>

mergePersonAttributes(Map<String,List<Object>> toModify, Map<String,List<Object>> toConsider) Modify the "toModify" argument in consideration of the "toConsider" argument.

Methods inherited from class org.jasig.services.persondir.support.merger.BaseAdditiveAttributeMerger

buildMutableAttributeMap, createMutableAttributeMap, mergeAttributes, mergeAvailableQueryAttributes, mergePossibleUserAttributeNames, mergeResults

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

mergePersonAttributes

protected Map<String,List<Object>> mergePersonAttributes(Map<String,List<Object>> toModify,
                                                         Map<String,List<Object>> toConsider)

Description copied from class: BaseAdditiveAttributeMerger

Modify the "toModify" argument in consideration of the "toConsider" argument. Return the resulting Map, which may or may not be the same reference as the "toModify" argument. The modification performed is implementation-specific -- implementations of this interface exist to perform some particular transformation on the toModify argument given the toConsider argument.

Specified by:

mergePersonAttributes in class BaseAdditiveAttributeMerger

Parameters:

toModify - - modify this map

toConsider - - in consideration of this map

Returns:

the modified Map