Re: HashMap get/put

From:

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

28 Oct 2009 23:05:28 GMT

Message-ID:

<Map-get-20091029000501@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

Look at the following example: (...)
final java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> value0
= new java.util.HashMap<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>(); (...)
?value1? has not the type used in the map, yet the ?get? succeeds.

  Above, both types were the same after type erasure and were
  types of empty containers.

  Here is a program with types that differ even after type
  erasure and non-empty containers.

public class Main
{ public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args )
  {
    final java.util.ArrayList< java.lang.String >list0
    = new java.util.ArrayList< java.lang.String >();
    list0.add( "text" );

    final java.util.LinkedList< java.lang.String >list1
    = new java.util.LinkedList< java.lang.String >();
    list1.add( "text" );

    final java.util.Map
    < java.util.ArrayList< java.lang.String >, java.lang.String >map
    = new java.util.HashMap
    < java.util.ArrayList< java.lang.String >, java.lang.String >();

    map.put( list0, "value" );

    java.lang.System.out.println( map.get( list1 )); }}

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