Re: why people use "Map m= new HashMap()" or "List l = new ArrayList()"?
"www" <www@nospam.com> wrote:
Thank you all for all your responses.
However, I still didn't get the answer. My old code is like:
public class MyClass {
private Map<String, String> _map;
public MyClass() {
_map = new HashMap<String, String>();
}
public Map getMap() {
return _map.clone(); //Oops! wrong! no clone() method for Map
}
}
Now, my new code is like:
public class MyClass {
private HashMap<String, String> _map;
public MyClass() {
_map = new HashMap<String, String>();
}
public HashMap getMap() {
return ((HashMap)_map.clone()); //clone() is available for HashMap
}
}
Do you see anything wrong with my new code? Should I keep the old code and
re-write getMap() like:
public Map getMap() {
Map<String, String> tempMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
//then copy everyting from _map into tempMap
There is a copy constructor on HashMap, so the copy is very straightforward
to make:
Map<String, String> tempMap = new HashMap<String, String>(_map);
Additionally, this may be an instance of needing to return a Map such that
the caller can't modify the internal state of the this object. For this,
there is:
Collections.unmodifiableMap(_map)
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