//
//  OrderedDictionary.h
//  OrderedDictionary
//
//  Created by Matt Gallagher on 19/12/08.
//  Copyright 2008 Matt Gallagher. All rights reserved.
//
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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

/**
 The RKOrderedDictionary class declares the programmatic interface to objects that manage mutable
 associations of keys and values wherein the keys have a specific order. It adds ordered key modification
 operations to the basic operations it inherits from NSMutableDictionary.
 */
// Borrowed from Matt Gallagher - http://cocoawithlove.com/2008/12/ordereddictionary-subclassing-cocoa.html
@interface RKOrderedDictionary : NSMutableDictionary
{
    NSMutableDictionary *dictionary;
    NSMutableArray *array;
}

/**
 Inserts an object into the dictionary for a given key at a specific index.

 @param anObject The object to add the dictionary.
 @param aKey The key to store the value under.
 @param anIndex The index in the dictionary at which to insert aKey.
 */
- (void)insertObject:(id)anObject forKey:(id)aKey atIndex:(NSUInteger)anIndex;

/**
 Returns the key within the dictionary at a given index.

 @param anIndex An index within the bounds of the array keys.
 @return The key that appears at the given index.
 */
- (id)keyAtIndex:(NSUInteger)anIndex;

/**
 Returns an enumerator object that lets you access each key in the dictionary,
 in reverse order.

 @return An enumerator object that lets you access each key in the dictionary
 in reverse order.
 */
- (NSEnumerator *)reverseKeyEnumerator;

@end