I'm a bit confused by the OP. I thought it was in reference to Andorid's
java.util.HashSet. However it seems to be in reference to the Apache Harmony
project.

I suppose the OP's problem is in porting code that was using Harmony to
Android?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Philip <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply. Complaint is a strong word... I am merely
> pointing it out ;-)
>
> contains() works only to find out if the element is in the set or not
> (it returns a bool.)
> find would give me an iterator that I can use to get to the object
> directly.
>
> workaround that's using contains() to speed up the discovery of the
> element in the set for now:
>
>    public int numberOfNodes(Target target) {
>        if (targets.contains(target)) {
>            for (HashElement element: targets) {
>             if (element.target == target)
>                    return element.nodes != null ? element.nodes.size
> () : 0;
>            }
>        } else
>           return 0;
>    }
>
> Knowing that targets can only have unique targets, and because I am
> reluctant to modify drastically from one platform to another, I am
> using a HashSet with the current limitation I discovered in the
> Android impl.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip
>
> On Jan 11, 3:15 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Mark Murphy wrote:
> > > Philip wrote:
> > >> Any idea why such a fundamental method is missing from the dalvik
> > >> libcore implementation?
> >
> > > HashSet is not a method. It is a class, and it exists in
> java.util.HashSet.
> >
> > Mea culpa. I misunderstood your complaint.
> >
> > What is wrong with contains()?
> >
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> >
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