// DictionaryToArrayConverter.cs is a part of the IBBoard utils library (referred to from here as "this program")
// 
// Copyright (C) 2009 IBBoard
//
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace IBBoard
{
	
	
	public class DictionaryToArrayConverter
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Takes the set of values in a dictionary and returns them as an array of typed objects.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="dictionary">
		/// A <see cref="Dictionary`2"/> to extract an array of values from
		/// </param>
		/// <returns>
		/// An array of <see cref="VALUE_TYPE"/> objects taken from the Values property of the dictionary, or NULL if the dictionary is NULL
		/// </returns>
		public static  VALUE_TYPE[] Convert<KEY_TYPE, VALUE_TYPE>(Dictionary<KEY_TYPE, VALUE_TYPE> dictionary)
		{
			if (dictionary == null)
			{
				return null;
			}
			
			VALUE_TYPE[] col = new VALUE_TYPE[dictionary.Count];
			dictionary.Values.CopyTo(col, 0);
			return col;
		}
	}
}