Re: HashMap Issue

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 15 May 2009 13:24:29 +0100
Message-ID:
<alpine.DEB.1.10.0905151321140.14934@urchin.earth.li>
On Wed, 13 May 2009, jagadesh wrote:

i want my own implementation of hashMap . my requirement is i want to
get 3 values
1. page Number
2. ArrayList
3. String "status"

so i want to make a hashMap with 3 like HashMap<int
PageNumber,ArrayList myList,String status>


You need to explain more clearly what you want to do - we don't understand
the problem.

I assume you want to be able to put entries in like this:

int pageNumber;
List myList;
String status;

JagadeshMap<Integer, List, String> map = new JagadeshMap<Integer, List, String>();
map.put(pageNumber, myList, status);

But how do you want to get entries out? Do you want to look up just by
page number:

map.get(pageNumber);

By any of the values:

map.get(pageNumber);
map.get(status);

Or by some combination of the values:

map.get(pageNumber, status);

?

tom

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