Re: Glitch in Java Collections (No descendingMap in LinkedHashMap)

From:
Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com>
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comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:45:41 -0600
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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>();
  
  private static class OrderedComparator implements java.util.Comparator<Object> {
    private Map<?, Long> insertionRanks;
    
    @Override
    public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
      Long rank1 = insertionRanks.get(o1);
      Long rank2 = insertionRanks.get(o2);
      return rank1.compareTo(rank2);
    }
  }

  public InsertionOrderedMap() {
    super((java.util.Comparator< ? super K>)new OrderedComparator());
    ((OrderedComparator)comparator()).insertionRanks = this.insertionRanks;
  }

  @Override
  public V put(K key, V value) {
    insertionRanks.put(key, nextInsertionRank++);
    return super.put(key, value);
  };
  
  @Override
  public V remove(Object key) {
    insertionRanks.remove(key);
    return super.remove(key);
  }
}

Not tested, and I make no claims regarding its correctness. I wanted to
make OrderedComparator a non-static inner class but I couldn't get the
constructor to compile, so there is some possibly avoidable ugliness
there.

--
Jim Janney

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