Re: If you can help... (map::find and map::insert)

From:
Ricardo <rbalbinot@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:40:07 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<fd4c947e-356d-4c7a-a9bb-f62a3215bb46@c36g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 30, 9:43 am, Joe Greer <jgr...@doubletake.com> wrote:

Ricardo <rbalbi...@gmail.com> wrote innews:afc72b86-18c6-4d5f-8116-5cd49e=

48615a@n30g2000vba.googlegroups.com:

So, if I change the code to something like that:
bool SFlowId::operator<(const SFlowId &to) const {
     if (this->destinationIP < to.destinationIP)
          return true;
     else if (this->destinationIP > to.destinationIP)
          return false;
     if (this->sourceIP < to.sourceIP)
          return true;
     else if (this->sourceIP > to.sourceIP)
          return false;
     if (this->destinationPort < to.destinationPort)
          return true;
     else if (this->destinationPort > to.destinationPort)
          return false;
     if (this->sourcePort < to.sourcePort)
          return true;
     else if (this->sourcePort > to.sourcePort)
          return false;
     if (this->protocol < to.protocol)
          return true;
     else if (this->protocol > to.protocol)
          return false;
     if (this->TOS < to.TOS)
          return true;
     else if (this->TOS > to.TOS)
          return false;
     if (this->ingressInterface < to.ingressInterface)
          return true;
     else if (this->ingressInterface > to.ingressInterface)
          return false;
     if (this->destinationMAC < to.destinationMAC)
          return true;
     else if (this->destinationMAC > to.destinationMAC)
          return false;
     if (this->sourceMAC < to.sourceMAC)
          return true;
     else if (this->sourceMAC > to.sourceMAC)
          return false;
     if (this->VLAN < to.VLAN)
          return true;
     return false;
}


One other thing... You need to decide how you want to lookup your data=

..

The above looks like every field in the structure. If you know all tha=

t,

there probably isn't any reason to look it up. You don't really need
everything for your key. Just enough to be unique within the context o=

f

your application. For example, if you know that you will only have one
entry for any given sourceIP/port combination, that would be sufficient f=

or

theinsert/find mechanism. The problem with the previous code was that =

the

fields weren't used consistenly enough to give a good sorting order. T=

he

idea in general is that you need to be able to say that if A < B and B < =

C

than A < C. With your previous order, that wasn't always true. The =

above

looks correct, but may be overkill.

joe


First of all, tks a lot for your help!
Maybe I can get 2 or 3 fields off the key, but I do really need so
many items to classify my map, cause I have a struct that show some
info about a network flow, and to properly identify an unique flow I
need all that info (or most of it, at least).
But as I always understood, insert do return a value showing if it has
or has not find an already existing entry in the map. For what you
said, I do understand that it only searches till the point it thinks
the member is new, am I right?

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