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  * Copyright 2008-2009 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

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 package org.kuali.rice.kim.bo.types.dto;

 import java.util.Map;

 import java.util.TreeMap;

 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

 import org.kuali.rice.kns.datadictionary.AttributeDefinition;

 /**

  * Specialization of HashMap to facilitate web services and simplify API definitions.

  * 

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  *

  */

 public class AttributeDefinitionMap extends TreeMap<String,AttributeDefinition> {

         public AttributeDefinitionMap() {

                 super();

         }

         public AttributeDefinitionMap( Map<String,AttributeDefinition> map ) {

                 super( map );

         }

         public AttributeDefinition getByAttributeName(String attributeName) {

                 for (AttributeDefinition definition : values()) {

                         if (StringUtils.equals(attributeName, definition.getName())) 

                                 return definition;

                 }

                 return null;

         }

 }