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

From:
Joe Greer <jgreer@doubletake.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:43:58 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID:
<Xns9C3A58D5F9F61jgreerdoubletakecom@85.214.105.209>
Ricardo <rbalbinot@gmail.com> wrote in
news:afc72b86-18c6-4d5f-8116-5cd49e48615a@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 that,
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 of
your application. For example, if you know that you will only have one
entry for any given sourceIP/port combination, that would be sufficient for
the insert/find mechanism. The problem with the previous code was that the
fields weren't used consistenly enough to give a good sorting order. The
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

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