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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package net.sourceforge.phpdt.internal.core.util;
+
+import java.util.Hashtable;
+
+/**
+ * Implementation of data structure remembering an Object value by thread. Its purpose is to ease
+ * writing multi-threaded algorithms by providing a per thread data structure.
+ */
+public class PerThreadObject {
+
+ private Hashtable internalMap = new Hashtable(3); // synchronized map
+
+ /**
+ * Answer the current map for this thread
+ */
+ public Object getCurrent(){
+ return this.internalMap.get(Thread.currentThread());
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Set the map for this current thread - setting to null is equivalent to removing it
+ */
+ public void setCurrent(Object current){
+ if (current == null){
+ this.internalMap.remove(Thread.currentThread());
+ } else {
+ this.internalMap.put(Thread.currentThread(), current);
+ }
+ }
+}
+