This would be a very unusual map implementation (I can't figure out what
your keys might be, and thus why you wouldn't use a Set or Bag).
What you describe is a FixedSizeMap with the exception that keys can be
added via the keySet(). This is a violaton of keySet() (which states that
add is not supported), but an acceptable violation.
An alternative way to view this is that the set of keys that controls the
map is not the keySet(). ie. provide another method, controlKeySet(), to
access that set.
One more alternative - create a small holder class that holds your key and
value (like Map Entry), but where the equals and hashCode is derived only
from the key. Then just use a Set (instead of a map) where each entry is
this new holder class.
Stephen
From: "Michael Heuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, 4 May 2004, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> > This sounds more like a map that validates whether its keys are in a
> > predetermined Set. That way, the map would operate as normal, size is
size
> > of mappings, cannot add to keySet but can remove etc.
>
> Right, but that is only part of it. I would like to support
>
> Set keys = ...{ "foo", "bar" };
> Map map = new KeySetMap(keys);
>
> map.put("foo", 1);
> assert(map.containsKey("foo") == true);
> assert(map.get("foo") == 1);
>
> keys.remove("foo");
> assert(map.containsKey("foo") == false);
> assert(map.get("foo") == null);
>
> keys.add("baz");
> assert(map.containsKey("baz") == true);
> assert(map.get("baz") == null);
>
> but not any of
>
> map.remove("foo");
> map.keySet().remove("foo");
> map.keySet().iterator() ... remove();
> map.put("not a key in keys", 0);
>
> I thought it may be possible to implement this without breaking the Map
> interface contract (by throwing UnsupportedOperationException where
> appropriate), but I'm not so sure.
>
> michael
>
>
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