stringcache.java

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package rabbit.util;

import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
import java.util.WeakHashMap;

/** A cache for strings. The cache is weak so GC can happen quickly.
 *
 * String.intern may seem similar, but String.intern is a hard cache, 
 * that is no GC will remove interned strings.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:[e-mail]">Robert Olofsson</a>
 */
public class StringCache extends WeakHashMap<String, WeakReference<String>> {

    private static StringCache instance;
    
    /** Get the shared instance of the string caches.
     */
    public static synchronized StringCache getSharedInstance () {
	if (instance == null)
	    instance = new StringCache ();
	return instance;
    }
    
    /** Get a cached string with the same contents as the given string.
     *  If the string given is not null then the cache will hold one
     *  entry with the same value as the given string after this method has completed.
     * @param s the string to get a shared string for.
     */
    public synchronized String getCachedString (String s) {
	if (s == null)
	    return null;
	WeakReference<String> wr = get (s);
	String k; 
	if (wr != null && ((k = wr.get ()) != null))
	    return k;
	wr = new WeakReference<String> (s);
	put (s, wr);  
	return s;
    }
}