"
 COPYRIGHT (c) 1992 by Claus Gittinger
	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used
 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
 hereby transferred.
"

Dictionary subclass:#WeakValueDictionary
	instanceVariableNames:''
	classVariableNames:''
	poolDictionaries:''
	category:'Collections-Unordered'
!

!WeakValueDictionary class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright
"
 COPYRIGHT (c) 1992 by Claus Gittinger
	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used
 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
 hereby transferred.
"
!

documentation
"
    WeakValueDictionaries behave like Dictionaries, 
    as long as the values are still referenced by some 
    other (non-weak) object.
    However, once the last non-weak reference ceases to exist,
    the Dictionary will return nil for the value at position key.
    (with some delay: it will be removed after the next garbage collect).

    If you use this, be very careful since the collections size changes
    'magically' - for example, testing for being nonEmpty and then
    removing the first element may fail, since the element may vanish inbetween.
    In general, never trust the value as returned by the size/isEmpty messages.


    [author:]
        Stefan Vogel

    [See also:]
        WeakArray WeakIdentityDictionary WeakIdentitySet
"
! !

!WeakValueDictionary methodsFor:'adding & removing'!

at:key put:anObject
    "add the argument anObject under key, aKey to the receiver.
     Return anObject (sigh).
     Redefined to block interrupts, to avoid trouble when dependencies
     are added within interrupting high prio processes."

    |wasBlocked|

    wasBlocked := OperatingSystem blockInterrupts.
    [
        super at:key put:anObject.
    ] valueNowOrOnUnwindDo:[
        wasBlocked ifFalse:[OperatingSystem unblockInterrupts].
    ].
    ^ anObject

    "Modified: 6.5.1996 / 12:22:26 / stefan"
    "Created: 6.5.1996 / 14:47:37 / stefan"
    "Modified: 20.10.1996 / 14:05:04 / cg"
!

removeKey:aKey ifAbsent:aBlock
    "remove the association under aKey from the collection,
     return the value previously stored there..
     If it was not in the collection return the result 
     from evaluating aBlock.

    Redefined to avoid synchronization problems, in case
    of interrupts (otherwise, there could be some other operation 
    on the receiver done by another process, which garbles my contents)."

    |wasBlocked ret|

    wasBlocked := OperatingSystem blockInterrupts.
    [
        ret := super removeKey:aKey ifAbsent:aBlock
    ] valueNowOrOnUnwindDo:[
        wasBlocked ifFalse:[OperatingSystem unblockInterrupts]
    ].
    ^ ret

    "Modified: 6.5.1996 / 12:44:07 / stefan"
    "Created: 6.5.1996 / 14:47:37 / stefan"
!

removeValue:aKey ifAbsent:aBlock
    "remove the association under aValue from the collection,
     return the key previously stored there..
     If it was not in the collection return the result 
     from evaluating aBlock.

    Redefined to avoid synchronization problems, in case
    of interrupts (otherwise, there could be some other operation 
    on the receiver done by another process, which garbles my contents)."

    |wasBlocked ret|

    wasBlocked := OperatingSystem blockInterrupts.
    [
        ret := super removeValue:aKey ifAbsent:aBlock
    ] valueNowOrOnUnwindDo:[
        wasBlocked ifFalse:[OperatingSystem unblockInterrupts]
    ].
    ^ ret.

    "Created: 6.5.1996 / 14:47:37 / stefan"
    "Modified: 8.5.1996 / 14:54:09 / stefan"
! !

!WeakValueDictionary methodsFor:'private'!

valueContainerOfSize:n
    "return a container for values of size n.
     use WeakArrays here."

    ^ WeakArray new:n.

    "Created: 6.5.1996 / 14:47:37 / stefan"
! !

!WeakValueDictionary class methodsFor:'documentation'!

version
    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/WeakValueDictionary.st,v 1.5 1997-01-24 20:54:29 cg Exp $'
! !