Re: Pair in Java?
Bent C Dalager wrote:
In article <fh9s9c$edo$1@news.net.uni-c.dk>, saneman <yyyy@dd.com> wrote:
In C++ its possible to make a pair is there something like that for java
or do I need to make a separate class with to fields?
I don't think there is a Pair<> as such. The Map interface defines a
Map.Entry<K,V> which is similar, but using it as a pair seems overly
hackish (and is probably not much less work than defining a proper
Pair<> anyway).
public class Pair <T, U>
{
private final T first;
private final U second;
private transient final int hash;
public Pair( T f, U s )
{
this.first = f;
this.second = s;
hash = (first == null? 0 : first.hashCode() * 31)
+(second == null? 0 : second.hashCode());
}
public T getFirst()
{
return first;
}
public U getSecond()
{
return second;
}
@Override
public int hashCode()
{
return hash;
}
@override
public boolean equals( Object oth )
{
if ( this == oth )
{
return true;
}
if ( oth == null || !(getClass().isInstance( oth )) )
{
return false;
}
Pair<T, U> other = getClass().cast( oth );
return (first == null? other.first == null : first.equals( other.first ))
&& (second == null? other.second == null : second.equals( other.second ));
}
}
(untested, uncompiled, YMMV)
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