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Henri Yandell updated COLLECTIONS-244:
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Fix Version/s: Generics
Affects Version/s: (was: Generics)
> Proposal to support generic multi-key maps with keys of different types
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> Key: COLLECTIONS-244
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-244
> Project: Commons Collections
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Map
> Reporter: Michael Heuer
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: Generics
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> Attachments: multi-map.tar.gz
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> MultiKeyMap as designed can only accept keys of the same type, if made to
> support generics, i.e.
> MultiKeyMap<MultiKey<String>,Integer> map = ...;
> map.put("foo", "bar", 10);
> // not possible
> //MultiKeyMap<MultiKey<String,Integer>,Double> map = ...;
> Attached is a proposal that may support multi-key maps with keys of different
> types. I do not believe varying numbers of typed keys can be supported in a
> single interface, thus this proposal includes
> BinaryKey<K1,K2>
> BinaryKeyMap<K1,K2,V> extends Map<BinaryKey<K1,K2>,V>
> TertiaryKey<K1,K2,K3>
> TertiaryKeyMap<K1,K2,K3,V> extends Map<TertiaryKey<K1,K2,K3>,V>
> QuaternaryKey<K1,K2,K3,K4>
> QuaternaryKeyMap<K1,K2,K3,K4,V> extends Map<QuaternaryKey<K1,K2,K3,K4>,V>
> To prevent unnecessary object creation, I also propose to support
> MapIterator-style iterators:
> BinaryKeyMapIterator<K1,K2,V> extends Iterator<V>
> TertiaryKeyMapIterator<K1,K2,K3,V> extends Iterator<V>
> QuaternaryKeyMapIterator<K1,K2,K3,K4,V> extends Iterator<V>
> Current multi-map MapIterator support is implemented as Iterator<K1> but I
> find that Iterator<V> makes more sense here. It is not possible to support
> MapIterator<K,V> without object creation, e.g.
> MapIterator<BinaryKey<K1,K2>,V> must create BinaryKey objects for each call
> to next().
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