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Here is the definition of our EmployeeMap once more:
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dictionary<long, Employee> EmployeeMap;
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As for sequences, the Java mapping does not create a separate named type for this definition. Instead, the dictionary is simply an instance of the generic type java.util.Map<K, V>
, where K
is the mapping of the key type and V
is the mapping of the value type. In the example above, EmployeeMap
is mapped to the Java type java.util.Map<Long, Employee>
. The following code demonstrates how to allocate and use an instance of EmployeeMap
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java.util.Map<Long, Employee> em = new java.util.HashMap<Long, Employee>();
Employee e = new Employee();
e.number = 31;
e.firstName = "James";
e.lastName = "Gosling";
em.put(e.number, e);
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The type-safe nature of the mapping makes iterating over the dictionary quite convenient:
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for (java.util.Map.Entry<Long, Employee> i : em.entrySet()) {
long num = i.getKey();
Employee emp = i.getValue();
System.out.println(emp.firstName + " was employee #" + num);
}
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Alternate mappings for dictionary types are also possible.
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