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package com.sun.jmx.remote.util;

import java.lang.ref.SoftReference;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.WeakHashMap;

import com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.Util;

/**
 * <p>Like WeakHashMap, except that the keys of the n most
 * recently-accessed entries are kept as {@link SoftReference soft
 * references}.  Accessing an element means creating it, or retrieving
 * it with {@link #get(Object) get}.  Because these entries are kept
 * with soft references, they will tend to remain even if their keys
 * are not referenced elsewhere.  But if memory is short, they will
 * be removed.</p>
 */
public class CacheMap<K, V> extends WeakHashMap {
    /**
     * <p>Create a CacheMap that can keep up to
     * <code>nSoftReferences as soft references.

     *
     * @param nSoftReferences Maximum number of keys to keep as soft
     * references.  Access times for {@link #get(Object) get} and
     * {@link #put(Object, Object) put} have a component that scales
     * linearly with <code>nSoftReferences, so this value
     * should not be too great.
     *
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if
     * <code>nSoftReferences is negative.
     */
    public CacheMap(int nSoftReferences) {
        if (nSoftReferences < 0) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("nSoftReferences = " +
                                               nSoftReferences);
        }
        this.nSoftReferences = nSoftReferences;
    }

    public V put(K key, V value) {
        cache(key);
        return super.put(key, value);
    }

    public V get(Object key) {
        cache(Util.<K>cast(key));
        return super.get(key);
    }

    /* We don't override remove(Object) or try to do something with
       the map's iterators to detect removal.  So we may keep useless
       entries in the soft reference list for keys that have since
       been removed.  The assumption is that entries are added to the
       cache but never removed.  But the behavior is not wrong if
       they are in fact removed -- the caching is just less
       performant.  */

    private void cache(K key) {
        Iterator<SoftReference it = cache.iterator();
        while (it.hasNext()) {
            SoftReference<K> sref = it.next();
            K key1 = sref.get();
            if (key1 == null)
                it.remove();
            else if (key.equals(key1)) {
                // Move this element to the head of the LRU list
                it.remove();
                cache.add(0, sref);
                return;
            }
        }

        int size = cache.size();
        if (size == nSoftReferences) {
            if (size == 0)
                return;  // degenerate case, equivalent to WeakHashMap
            it.remove();
        }

        cache.add(0, new SoftReference<K>(key));
    }

    /* List of soft references for the most-recently referenced keys.
       The list is in most-recently-used order, i.e. the first element
       is the most-recently referenced key.  There are never more than
       nSoftReferences elements of this list.

       If we didn't care about J2SE 1.3 compatibility, we could use
       LinkedHashSet in conjunction with a subclass of SoftReference
       whose equals and hashCode reflect the referent.  */
    private final LinkedList<SoftReference cache =
            new LinkedList<SoftReference();
    private final int nSoftReferences;
}