/**
* This file has generic methods of accessing auto load information. This
* will save memory and generaly be more useful than the previous version.
* It shoudl also solve a lot of the container in container problems,
* @author Pinkfish
* @started Wed Feb 17 13:46:35 PST 1999
*/
/**
* This method adds a value into the auto load mapping.
* @param map the mapping to add to
* @param file_name the file name tag of the object doing the adding
* @param tag the tag name to be used
* @param value the value to be stored with it.
* @example
* #define AUTO_LOAD_TAG "object"
*
* mapping query_dynamic_auto_load() {
* mapping map;
*
* map = ::query_dynamic_auto_load();
* map = add_auto_load_value(map, AUTO_LOAD_TAG, "name", name);
* } /\* query_dynamic_auto_load() *\/
*/
mapping add_auto_load_value(mapping map,
string file_name,
string tag,
mixed value) {
map[file_name + " : " + tag] = value;
return map;
} /* add_auto_load_value() */
/**
* This method will attempt to read the tag value for the given name out of
* the auto load mapping.
* <p>
* This works backwards compatible with the old method of dealing with tags
* and file names.
* @param map the auto load mapping
* @param file_name the file name tag to use
* @param tag the tag to use in the file name
* @example
* #define AUTO_LOAD_TAG "object"
*
* mapping init_dynamic_arg(mapping map) {
* mapping map;
*
* map = ::query_dynamic_auto_load();
* map = add_auto_load_value(map, AUTO_LOAD_TAG, "name", name);
* } /\* init_dynamic_arg() *\/
*/
mixed query_auto_load_value(mapping map,
string file_name,
string tag) {
mixed tmp;
if (tag == "::") {
return map;
}
tmp = map[file_name + " : " + tag];
if (tmp) {
return tmp;
}
return map[tag];
} /* query_auto_load_value() */
