I have a method that read from database and get some string there. According what I get I will override that string for another that I already know. For example:
str → string
bin → binary
and so on..
My question is, what is the best practice for doing this? Of course I already thought about if's...
if (str.equals("str"))
str = "string";
A file that have this things pre-defined, a multi-dimensional array, etc.. But this all seems a quite newbie, so what do you recommend? What is the best way?
Use a Map:
// create a map that maps abbreviated strings to their replacement text
Map<String, String> abbreviationMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
// populate the map with some values
abbreviationMap.put("str", "string");
abbreviationMap.put("bin", "binary");
abbreviationMap.put("txt", "text");
// get a string from the database and replace it with the value from the map
String fromDB = // get string from database
String fullText = abbreviationMap.get(fromDB);
You can read more about Maps here.
You could use a map, for example:
Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
map.put("str", "string");
map.put("bin", "binary");
// ...
String input = ...;
String output = map.get(input); // this could be null, if it doesn't exist in the map
Map is a good option as people have suggested. The other option which I normally consider in this scenario is Enum. It gives you an additional capability of adding behavior for a combination.
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I have some inputted String String usrInput; that user could import some string once into App without any case-sensitivity policy like: "start","Start","START","end" ,"END" and etc.
And I have a Map that i inserted my strings for example "start" into that and put it into HashMap<String, String> myMap:
Map<String, String> listOfActions = new HashMap<>();
listOfActions.put(myStr, myStr);
Now I want to check listOfActions members to get for example "start" filed in every case model ("start","Start","START") , currently I do like below:
if (listOfActions.containsKey(usrInput.toUpperCase())
|| listOfActions.containsKey(usrInput.toLowerCase())) {
/// some do
}
So I want to know:
1. Is there any way to get String value without case-sensitivity?
I will also add this here I couldn't use equalsIgnoreCase() method for get items from Map because its return Boolean.
2. I have similar problem in switch-case statements to check 2 string equality without case-sensitivity.
You can use
Map<String, String> listOfActions = new TreeMap<>(String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER);
Other solutions can be Apache's CaseInsensitiveMap or Spring's LinkedCaseInsensitiveMap.
Please see https://www.baeldung.com/java-map-with-case-insensitive-keys for more details about these solutions.
If you only use inputs as map keys (i.e. you don't need to later reproduce the strings in original casing), I suggest just lowercasing all inputs before inserting them into the map:
Map<String, String> listOfActions = new HashMap<>();
listOfActions.put(myStr.toLowerCase(), myStr);
This will simplify locating the values later on, since you know that all keys are already lowercased, so the lookup becomes easy:
if (listOfActions.containsKey(myStr.toLowerCase())) {
// do something
}
When you create a new instance of HashMap, you can override some of its methods, such as put and containsKey like this:
Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<>() {
#Override
public String put(String key, String value) {
return super.put(key.toLowerCase(), value);
}
#Override
public boolean containsKey(Object key) {
return super.containsKey(key.toString().toLowerCase());
}
};
map.put("START", "doStart");
System.out.println(map); // {start=doStart}
System.out.println(map.containsKey("START")); // true
System.out.println(map.containsKey("Start")); // true
System.out.println(map.containsKey("start")); // true
One thing you can do is make everything upper-case or lower-case, then compare them.
string.toLowerCase().equals("other string");
string.toUpperCase().equals("OTHERSTRING");
This way, whether it is lower-case or upper-case, it will only be compared as one or the other, and acts as though it were case insensitive.
I wonder how to make a registry/database list in Java. I mean if I, for example, have a variable called "data", and then I add a new entry to that called "name" with the value "David". Then I would call something like "data.name" to get the value "David".
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I've been Googling but not finding anything about it.
It sounds like you want a Map from String to String. You can use a HashMap<String,String> for that.
// Create Map using HashMap
Map<String, String> data = new HashMap<String, String>();
// Set name
data.put("name", "David");
// Get name
String name = data.get("name");
System.out.println(name);
A technical aptitude question
HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String,String>();
String key1 = "key1";
map.put(key1, "value1");
String key2 = key1.clone();
map.put(key2, "value2");
What are the contents of the map object?
I answered it as {key1=value2} but later realized that String doesn't contain clone method.
I wanted to know the reason for the same.
String is an immutable object, so it needn't a clone method since the client code can't change its state inside the String class.
you can just ref to the original String, for example:
String key2 = key1;// or using key1 directly instead.
As has been pointed out already, there is no need to clone immutable objects like String.
But if you decide you really need a distinct instance of the string (and you nearly certainly don't), you can use the copy constructor:
String copy = new String(original);
System.out.println(copy.equals(original)); // true
System.out.println(copy == original); // false
I have a HashSet of Strings in the format: something_something_name="value"
Set<String> name= new HashSet<String>();
Farther down in my code I want to check if a String "name" is included in the HashSet. In this little example, if I'm checking to see if "name" is a substring of any of the values in the HashSet, I'd like it to return true.
I know that .contains() won't work since that works using .equals(). Any suggestions on the best way to handle this would be great.
With your existing data structure, the only way is to iterate over all entries checking each one in turn.
If that's not good enough, you'll need a different data structure.
You can build a map (name -> strings) as follows:
Map<String, List<String>> name_2_keys = new HashMap<>();
for (String name : names) {
String[] parts = key.split("_");
List<String> keys = name_2_keys.get(parts[2]);
if (keys == null) {
keys = new ArrayList<>();
}
keys.add(name);
name_2_keys.put(parts[2], keys);
}
Then retrieve all the strings containing the name name:
List<String> keys = name_2_keys.get(name)
You can keep another map where name is the key and something_something_name is the value.
Thus, you would be able to move from name -> something_something_name -> value. If you want a single interface, you can write a wrapper class around these two maps, exposing the functionality you want.
I posted a MapFilter class here a while ago.
You could use it like:
MapFilter<String> something = new MapFilter<String>(yourMap, "something_");
MapFilter<String> something_something = new MapFilter<String>(something, "something_");
You will need to make your container into a Map first.
This would only be worthwhile doing if you look for the substrings many times.
Hi I have a strange question about java. I will leave out the background info so as not to complicate it. If you have a variable named fname. And say you have a function returning a String that is "fname". Is there a way to say reference the identifier fname via the String "fname". The idea would be something like "fname".toIdentifier() = value but obviously toIdentifier isn't a real method.
I suppose a bit of background mite help. Basically I have a string "fname" mapped to another string "the value of fname". And I want a way to quickly say the variable fname = the value of the key "fname" from the map. I'm getting the key value pair from iterating over a map of cookies in the form . And I don't want to do "if key = "fname" set fname to "value of fname" because I have a ton of variables that need to be set that way. I'd rather do something like currentkey.toIdentifer = thevalue. Weird question maybe I'm overlooking a much easier way to approach this.
Why don't you just use a simple hashmap for this?
Map<String, String> mapping = new HashMap<String, String>();
mapping.put("fname", "someValue");
...
String value = mapping.get(key); //key could be "fname"
In a way you're describing what reflection is used for:
You refer to an object's fields and methods by name.
Java Reflection
However, most of the time when people ask a question like this, they're better off solving their problem by re-working their design and taking advantage of data structures like Maps.
Here's some code that shows how to create a Map from two arrays:
String[] keyArray = { "one", "two", "three" };
String[] valArray = { "foo", "bar", "bazzz" };
// create a new HashMap that maps Strings to Strings
Map<String, String> exampleMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
// create a map from the two arrays above
for (int i = 0; i < keyArray.length; i++) {
String theKey = keyArray[i];
String theVal = valArray[i];
exampleMap.put(theKey, theVal);
}
// print the contents of our new map
for (String loopKey : exampleMap.keySet()) {
String loopVal = exampleMap.get(loopKey);
System.out.println(loopKey + ": " + loopVal);
}
Here's a link to the JavaDoc for Map.