# A simple way to turn file names into singletons,
# so we don't have tons of copies of each file path around.
class Puppet::FileCollection
  require 'puppet/file_collection/lookup'

  def self.collection
    @collection
  end

  def initialize
    @paths = []
    @inverse = {}
  end

  def index(path)
    if i = @inverse[path]
      return i
    else
      @paths << path
      i = @inverse[path] = @paths.length - 1
      return i
    end
  end

  def path(index)
    @paths[index]
  end

  @collection = self.new
end