<?php
/**
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 * distributed with this work for additional information
 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
 * to you under the Apache 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
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

/**
 * @package Avro
 */

/**
 * Class for static utility methods used in Avro.
 *
 * @package Avro
 */
class AvroUtil
{
  /**
   * Determines whether the given array is an associative array
   * (what is termed a map, hash, or dictionary in other languages)
   * or a list (an array with monotonically increasing integer indicies
   * starting with zero).
   *
   * @param array $ary array to test
   * @returns true if the array is a list and false otherwise.
   *
   */
  static function is_list($ary)
  {
    if (is_array($ary))
    {
      $i = 0;
      foreach ($ary as $k => $v)
      {
        if ($i !== $k)
          return false;
        $i++;
      }
      return true;
    }
    return false;
  }

  /**
   * @param array $ary
   * @param string $key
   * @returns mixed the value of $ary[$key] if it is set,
   *                and null otherwise.
   */
  static function array_value($ary, $key)
  {
    return isset($ary[$key]) ? $ary[$key] : null;
  }
}