retrieving the values from the nested hashmap
Question
I have a XML file with many copies of table node structure as below:
<databasetable TblID=”123” TblName=”Department1_mailbox”>
<SelectColumns>
<Slno>dept1_slno</Slno>
<To>dept1_to</To>
<From>dept1_from</From>
<Subject>dept1_sub</Subject>
<Body>dept1_body</Body>
<BCC>dept1_BCC</BCC>
<CC>dept1_CC</CC>
</SelectColumns>
<WhereCondition>MailSentStatus=’New’</WhereCondition>
<UpdateSuccess>
<MailSentStatus>’Yes’</MailSentStatus>
<MailSentFailedReason>’Mail Sent Successfully’</MailSentFailedReason>
</UpdateSuccess>
<UpdateFailure>
<MailSentStatus>’No’</MailSentStatus>
<MailSentFailedReason>’Mail Sending Failed ’</MailSentFailedReason>
</ UpdateFailure>
</databasetable>
As it is not an efficient manner to traverse the file for each time to fetch the details of each node for the queries in the program, I used the nested hashmap concept to store the details while traversing the XML file for the first time. The structure I used is as below:
MapMaster
Key Value
123 MapDetails
Key Value
TblName Department1_mailbox
SelectColumns mapSelect
Key Value
Slno dept1_slno
To dept1_to
From dept1_from
Subject dept1_sub
Body dept1_body
BCC dept1_BCC
CC dept1_CC
WhereCondition MailSentStatus=’New’
UpdateSuccess mapUS
MailSentStatus ’Yes’
MailSentFailedReason ’Mail Sent Successfully’
UpdateFailure mapUF
MailSentStatus ’No’
MailSentFailedReason ’Mail Sending Failed’
But the problem I'm facing now is regarding retrieving the Value part using the nested Keys. For example,
If I need the value of Slno Key, I have to specify TblID, SelectColumns, Slno in nested form like:
Stirng Slno = ((HashMap)((HashMap)mapMaster.get(“123”))mapDetails.get(“SelectColumns”))mapSelect.get(“Slno”);
This is unconvinent to use in a program. Please suggest a solution but don't tell that iterators are available. As I've to fetch the individual value from the map according to the need of my program.
EDIT:my program has to fetch the IDs of the department for which there is privilege to send mails and then these IDs are compared with the IDs in XML file. Only information of those IDs are fetched from XML which returned true in comparison. This is all my program. Please help.
Thanks in advance, Vishu
2 answers
solution1
2 2011-05-08 17:08:12
Never cast to specific Map implementation. Better use casting to Map interface, ie
((Map)one.get("foo")).get("bar")Do not use casting in your case. You can define collection using generics, so compiler will do work for you:
Map<String, Map> one = new HashMap<String, Map>();
Map<String, Integer> two = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
Now your can say:
int n = one.get("foo").get("bar");
No casting, no problems.
But the better solution is not to use nested tables at all. Create your custom classes like SelectColumns , WhereCondition etc. Each class should have appropriate private fields, getters and setters. Now parse your XML creating instance of these classes. And then use getters to traverse the data structure.
BTW if you wish to use JAXB you do not have to do almost anything! Something like the following:
Unmarshaller u = JAXBContext.newInstance(SelectColumns.class, WhereCondition.class).createUnmarshaller();
SelectColumns[] columns = (SelectColumns[])u.unmarshal(in);
solution2
0 2011-05-08 17:07:08
One approach to take would be to generate fully qualified keys that contain the XML path to the element or attribute. These keys would be unique, stored in a single hashmap and get you to the element quickly.
Your code would simply have to generate a unique textual representation of the path and store and retrieve the xml element based on the key.
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