Re: using TreeMap how to return the Object ?

From:
Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:19:49 -0400
Message-ID:
<kqhkq6$k8g$1@dont-email.me>
On 06/27/2013 01:30 AM, moonhkt wrote:

Hi All

How to using searchKey return object eleHost values?


Return from where? Do you mean how to arrange for your
searchKey method to return an eleHost value?

cat eleHost.java


You might consider something like java.net.InetAddress.

   public class eleHost {
        String ip;
        String host1;

        public eleHost (String a, String b) {
             this.ip = a;
             this.host1 = b;
        }
     /* public String toString () {
           return ip + "|" + host1;
        } */
   }

cat clsHosts.java

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.regex.*;
import java.lang.String.*;
import java.text.*;

public class clsHosts {
    // Instance Variables
    // http://kerflyn.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/how-treemap-can-save-your-day/
    TreeMap ipx = new TreeMap () ; /* a sorted and navigable map */
    String ifn = "/etc/hosts" ;

    // Constructor
    public clsHosts () {
    }
    // Methods
    public void process_hosts () {
       File ihost = new File(ifn);
       String delimscfg = "\\s+"; /** multi-space */
       String aline ;
       int i = 0 ;
       try {
          BufferedReader br1 = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(ihost));
           while ((aline = br1.readLine()) != null) {
             String [] tokens = aline.split(delimscfg);
             try {
                 if ( ! tokens[0].trim().startsWith("#")) {
                    /* System.out.print("-->");
                     System.out.print(tokens[0].trim());
                     System.out.print(" ");
                     System.out.print(tokens[0].trim().substring(0));
                     System.out.println("<--"); */


You'll want a (probably immutable) java.util.Comparable key,
or a java.util.Comparator for your key in a java.util.SortedMap.

Why store your key with your value?

                     ipx.put(tokens[0].trim(),new eleHost(tokens[1].trim(),"x"));
                  }
             } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
                 continue;
             }
           }
        } catch (IOException e) {
           System.out.println(e);
       }
    }
    /* Print all data */
    public void printAll () {
       Set set = ipx.entrySet();
       Iterator i = set.iterator();
       while(i.hasNext()) {
          Map.Entry me = (Map.Entry) i.next();
          System.out.printf("%-18s %-25s\n" , me.getKey() , me.getValue());
       }
     }


It looks as if you've defeated the Map concept.

    /* get Hostname by IP address */
    public String getHost (String ip) {
      Set set = ipx.entrySet ();
      Iterator i = set.iterator ();
      while (i.hasNext()) {
           Map.Entry me = (Map.Entry) i.next ();
           if (me.getKey().equals(ip)) {
               return me.getValue().toString();
           }
      }
      return null;
    }


If this method is the subject of your post
just make it return an eleHost instance.

    public void searchKey (String ip) {
       System.out.println( ipx.get(ip));
    }
}

cat getip.java

class getip {

   public static void main (String args[]) throws Exception {
      clsHosts v = new clsHosts();
      String rtn ;
      v.process_hosts();
      v.printAll();
      rtn = v.getHost("21xxxxxxx");
      System.out.println("rtn=" + rtn);
      v.searchKey("21xxxxxxx");
   }

}

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