Re: offset-based hash table for ASCII data
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com> writes:
Mark Space wrote:
Oh, and the hash table itself in a Java hash map isn't serializable,
iirc.
You don't.
public class HashMap<K,V>
extends AbstractMap<K,V>
implements Map<K,V>, Cloneable, Serializable
I believe the point was that was that serializing a HashMap will not
serialize the internal table used, the data structure, but will
instead just serialize the data it contains.
The deserialization will deserialize the data and rebuild a data
structure.
So if you're expecting to send the hash table over directly, rather
than just the objects it contains, you'll have to roll your own
implementation or do something similar.
Or just use the HashMap built-in implementation of Serializable.
Which does exactly what Mark Space wrote - serialize the objects
it contains, not the table.
Actually, HashMap does serialize the internal table, by "serializ[ing] the
objects it contains". I do not see the distinction you are trying to make.
Furthermore, you don't "have to roll your own" serialization, HashMap does it
just fine. Even if you did, you'd probably wind up doing pretty much exactly
the same thing HashMap already does. So even if you say that the "internal
table" is somehow not serialized, even though it is, you still don't have the
same conclusion.
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