MessageLiteral.java

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package net.metanotion.util;


import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Map;

/** This is a utility class to generate commonly used data objects for dispatchers to parse. This is useful for both
testing and other use cases. */
public final class MessageLiteral {
	/** Make a message "pair" of a "method name" and a parameter list, with a zero length parameter list.
		@param method The name of the method.
		@return A pair containing a method name as the key and a zero length list as the value.
		@see net.metanotion.util.ReflectionListDispatcher
	*/
	public static Map.Entry<String,Object> get(String method) { return MessageLiteral.get(method, null); }
	/** Make a message "pair" of a method name and a parameter list.
		@param method The name of the method.
		@param params The array containing the parameters.
		@return A pair whose key is the method name and whose value is the list of parameters.
		@see net.metanotion.util.ReflectionListDispatcher
	*/
	public static Map.Entry<String,Object> get(String method, Object... params) {
		return new Pair<String,Object>(method, (params == null) ? Collections.EMPTY_LIST : Arrays.asList(params));
	}
}