/* create a map of Notifier UUIDs and/or names to Notifiers */
protected Map<Object, Notifier> getNotifierMap(Map payloads) throws Exception {
Map<Object, Notifier> notifiers = new HashMap<Object, Notifier>(payloads.size() * 2);
for (Object id : payloads.keySet()) {
Identifier identifier = Identifier.from(id);
Notifier notifier;
if (identifier.isUUID()) {
notifier = em.get(identifier.getUUID(), Notifier.class);
} else {
EntityRef ref = em.getAlias("notifier", identifier.getName());
notifier = em.get(ref, Notifier.class);
}
if (notifier != null) {
notifiers.put(notifier.getUuid(), notifier);
notifiers.put(notifier.getUuid().toString(), notifier);
if (notifier.getName() != null) {
notifiers.put(notifier.getName(), notifier);
}
}
}
return notifiers;
}
