You have to construct the map yourself by iterating once through the
entries.  There have been some vague ideas thrown around regarding built-in
map support but not much agreement on what it should look like or whether it
is really needed...

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:23 PM, murthy <venkateshamurth...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> My requirement is to be able serialize and deserialize a Map<String,
> Double> which is map String key and double value pairs.
>
> So when i try doing the following structure
>
> message Entry {
>  required string key = 1;
>  required float  value = 2;
> }
> // Our address book file is just one of these.
> message StatsMsg {
>  required int32 enc = 1;
>  repeated Entry   entry    = 2
> }
>
> The Java class generated gives a list which is inefficient in
> accessing keys [O(N)]. I would rather want a map equvivalent to be
> generated for the same.
>
> How do i do it.
>
> thanks
> murthy
> >
>

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