I guess both are useful; but what is the underlying storage? If it's a HashMap, then this should be called something like ReverseHashMap. (Or ReversibleHashMap?)
-- Adam On 10/24/06, Arjuna Wijeyekoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I'd like to make org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.ValueMap a public utility class. This class maintains a mapping from key to value, and also from value to key. It is useful to create ClientRowKeyManager implementations (See http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ADFFACES-210). I'd like to call it org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.util.ReverseMap And I will cleanup the api so that the Map interface is fully implemented (along with the remove operations). What do you think about making this class public? ?????? If we do make this public, which of the following apis is better? ReverseMap<K,V> map; V value; K key = map.getKey(value); // option 1 or Map<V,K> valuemap = map.getReverseMap(); // option 2 K Key = valuemap.get(value); ??? or should we have both? --arjuna
