Demonstrate the Hashtable class, and an Enumeration
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import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Hashtable;
/**
* Demonstrate the Hashtable class, and an Enumeration.
*
* @see HashMapDemo, for the newer HashMap class.
*/
public class HashtableDemo {
public static void main(String[] argv) {
// Construct and load the hash. This simulates loading a
// database or reading from a file, or wherever the data is.
Hashtable h = new Hashtable();
// The hash maps from company name to address.
// In real life this might map to an Address object...
h.put("Adobe", "Mountain View, CA");
h.put("IBM", "White Plains, NY");
h.put("Learning Tree", "Los Angeles, CA");
h.put("Microsoft", "Redmond, WA");
h.put("Netscape", "Mountain View, CA");
h.put("O'Reilly", "Sebastopol, CA");
h.put("Sun", "Mountain View, CA");
// Two versions of the "retrieval" phase.
// Version 1: get one pair's value given its key
// (presumably the key would really come from user input):
String queryString = "O'Reilly";
System.out.println("You asked about " + queryString + ".");
String resultString = (String) h.get(queryString);
System.out.println("They are located in: " + resultString);
System.out.println();
// Version 2: get ALL the keys and pairs
// (maybe to print a report, or to save to disk)
Enumeration k = h.keys();
while (k.hasMoreElements()) {
String key = (String) k.nextElement();
System.out.println("Key " + key + "; Value " + (String) h.get(key));
}
}
}
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