Re: Glitch in Java Collections (No descendingMap in LinkedHashMap)
On 10/10/2012 1:45 PM, Jim Janney wrote:
Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> writes:
Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> writes:
On 10/10/2012 11:00 AM, Jim Janney wrote:
Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> writes:
Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> writes:
[...]
If I really needed that functionality I'd probably try maintaining my
own access-order list in parallel to the map.
Oops, stupid me. The other way is to define a comparator based on
insertion order, and then use a SortedMap.
Defining the comparator might be something of a struggle,
especially if the same object instance could be referred to by
two different LinkedHashMaps.
The trick is finding a way to link the ordering information (probably a
counter assocated with the map) with the keys themselves. This is the
kind of problem where IdentityHashMap comes in handy.
Voila:
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import java.util.WeakHashMap;
public class InsertionOrderedMap<K,V> extends TreeMap<K,V> {
private long nextInsertionRank = 0;
private Map<K, Long> insertionRanks = new WeakHashMap<K, Long>();
[... in which a sequence number is stored.]
Okay, fine, but how does this qualify as an "other" way?
To my eye it looks exactly like "my own access-order list in
parallel to the map," and not something "other" at all.
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Eric Sosman
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