/*
* RHQ Management Platform
* Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Red Hat, Inc.
* All rights reserved.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as
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* General Public License, version 2.1, also as published by the Free
* Software Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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* for more details.
*
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* if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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*/
package org.rhq.core.domain.util;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
/**
* A dumping ground for utility methods used by Criteria objects. We specifically don't want to put these into the
* Criteria abstract class because they would become part of the auto-completion candidate list in the interactive CLI.
* Putting them here (in core/domain versus, say, core/util) will provide the necessary utility without requiring
* further module inheritance at the coregui layer.
*
* @author Joseph Marques
*/
public class CriteriaUtils {
/*
* remove nulls from the passed items, and return the resultant list. return null if no non-null items exist.
* this is useful in criteria addFilterXXX methods which take varargs, where a single null argument should be
* interpreted as a null collection (instead of one-item collection whose first value is null).
*/
public static <T> List<T> getListIgnoringNulls(T[] items) {
if (items == null) {
return null;
}
List<T> results = new ArrayList<T>();
for (T next : items) {
if (next != null) {
results.add(next);
}
}
if (results.size() == 0) {
return null;
}
return results;
}
}