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Problem adding list from on Hashmap to another

Issue adding a list from one hashmap's value to another's
Basically, I have 2 hashmaps (map1 and map2), both have the same keys(Integers from 0-500), but different values. What I'm wanting to do is use the value of map1, which is a String, as the key and the value of map2, which is a List, as the value. Adding map1 as the key is working, no problem, but when I try to add map2's value as map's value, it just returns as null.
This is for a homework project, where we are given 2 .csv files, one with labels and another with fake image file names, and have to be able to search by either image label or image file name.
Map<String, List<String>> map = new HashMap<String, List<String>>();
#SuppressWarnings({ "resource", "null", "unlikely-arg-type" })
public ImageLabelReader(String labelMappingFile, String imageMappingFile) throws IOException {
Map<Integer, String> map1 = new HashMap<Integer, String>();
Map<Integer, List<String>> map2 = new HashMap<Integer, List<String>>();
BufferedReader labelIn = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(labelMappingFile));
BufferedReader imageIn = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(imageMappingFile));
String row;
String[] rowArray;
while ((row = labelIn.readLine()) != null) {
rowArray = row.split(" ", 2);
map1.put(Integer.parseInt(rowArray[0]), rowArray[1]);
}
labelIn.close();
while ((row = imageIn.readLine()) != null) {
rowArray = row.split(" ", 2);
if(map2.containsKey(Integer.parseInt(rowArray[1]))) {
List<String> tempList = map2.get(Integer.parseInt(rowArray[1]));
tempList.add(rowArray[0]);
} else {
List<String> l = new ArrayList<String>();
l.add(rowArray[0]);
map2.put(Integer.parseInt(rowArray[1]), l);
}
}
imageIn.close();
List<String> t = new ArrayList<String>();
for(int i = 0; i < map1.size(); i++) {
t.clear();
for(String s : map2.get(i)) {
t.add(s);
System.out.println(t);
}
map.put(map1.get(i), map2.get(i));
}
System.out.println(map.containsKey("burrito"));
System.out.print(map2.get("burrito"));
}
Output is "True null" when the output should be "True [list containing strings]"

Try replacing -
map.put(map1.get(i), map2.get(i));
with
map.put(map1.get(i), t);
And also -
System.out.print(map2.get("burrito"));
with
System.out.print(map.get("burrito"));
Also, you're trying to get map's value using a String while you said the key is of int type, please check that.

java invert values in object constructor

I've question, I create an object with values like this: Edge edge = new Edge(vertice1, vertice2, weight); and add this to myEdgesList.add(edge);`
Is there any way in Java to create the same list but with inverted line1 with line2 like this: Edge edge = new Edge(vertice2, vertice1, weight); and add it to the same list.
LinkedList<Edge> edgesList = new LinkedList<>();
LinkedList<Edge> secondInverted = new LinkedList<>();
CSVReader reader = null;
try {
reader = new CSVReader(new FileReader(csvFile));
String[] line;
while ((line = reader.readNext()) != null) {
Vertex one = findVertexByName(verticesList, line[0]);
Vertex second = findVertexByName(verticesList, line[1]);
edgesList.add(new Edge(one, second, Integer.parseInt(line[2])));
secondInverted.add(new Edge(second, one, Integer.parseInt(line[2])));
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
List<Edge> newList = new ArrayList<>(edgesList);
newList.addAll(edgesList);
return newList;
Thank you in advance!

I don't really get your problem. You want to add shape once with line1 and line2 as parameters and then once more with line2 and line1 as parameters?
Like
Shape s1 = new Shape(line1, line2, weight);
Shape s2 = new Shape(line2, line1, weight);
list.add(s1);
list.add(s2);

You can achieve this in multiple ways, depending when You are creating the new list.
If You want to make them simultaneously, create both shapes:
Shape shape = new Shape(line1, line2, weight);
Shape shape2 = new Shape(line2, line1, weight);
myShapeList.add(shape);
myShapeList2.add(shape2);
If you want to make it later on, You could either:
1. clone Your myShapeList, and loop through it swapping the attributes ( if You have a setter and getter in Your object )
2. Create a new myShapeList2, and for(i=0;i<myShapeList.size();i++) create a new Shape, with line1 = myShapeList[i].line2 and line2 = myShapeList[i].line1, and add it in the new list.
They could be predefined ( like when You make Your First list ), or You can get them with a getter in your object.
Post Your code if You try to make some progress and have any issues.
UPDATE
To return a joint new list consisting both Your lists try:
List<Edge> newList = new ArrayList<>(edgesList);
newList.addAll(secondInverted);
List<Edge> invertedList = new ArrayList<>(secondInverted);
You can check out more info about joining lists here, or here.

Reading a text file into multiple arrays in Java

I'm currently working on a program that reads in a preset text file and then manipulates the data in various ways. I've got the data manipulation to work with some dummy data but I still need to get the text file read in correctly.
The test file looks like this for 120 lines:
Aberdeen,Scotland,57,9,N,2,9,W,5:00,p.m. Adelaide,Australia,34,55,S,138,36,E,2:30,a.m. Algiers,Algeria,36,50,N,3,0,E,6:00,p.m.(etc etc)
So each of these needs to be read into its own array, in order String[] CityName,String[] Country,int[] LatDeg,int[] LatMin,String[] NorthSouth,int[] LongDeg,int LongMin,String[] EastWest,int[] Time.String[] AMPM
So the problem is that while I'm reasonably comfortable with buffered readers, designing this particular function has proven difficult. In fact, I've been drawing a blank for the past few hours. It seems like it would need multiple loops and counters but I can't figure out the precisely how.

I am assuming that you have one city per line type of file structure. If it is not, it will require a bit of tweaking in the following solution:
I will do the following way if I am more comfortable with BufferReader as you say:
List<List<String>> addresses = new ArrayList<List<String>>();
try(BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file))) {
for(String line; (line = br.readLine()) != null; ) {
addresses.add(line.split(","));
}
}
Later, let's say you want to retrieve the country information of say 'Adelaid', you can try the following:
for (List<String> cityInfo : addresses) {
if("Adelaid".equals(cityInfo.get(0)) {
country = cityInfo.get(1);
}
}

Instead of creating different arrays (like String[] CityName,String[] Country, etc.,), try using a Domain Object.
Here, you can have a Domain object or Custom class Location with attributes
public class Location
{
private String cityName;
private String country;
private String latDeg;
etc
getters();
setters();
}`
Then you can write a file reader, each line item in the file will be a Location. So result will have
Location[] locations;
or
List locations;`

To carry out this task I should think the first thing you want to do is establish how many lines of data actually exist within the data file. You say it is 120 lines but what if it happens that it will be more or less? We would want to know exactly what it is so as to properly initialize all our different Arrays. We can use a simple method to accomplish this, let's call it the getFileLinesCount() method which will ulitmately return a Integer value that would be the number of text lines the data file holds:
private int getFileLinesCount(final String filePath) {
int lines = 0;
try{
File file =new File(filePath);
if(file.exists()){
FileReader fr = new FileReader(file);
try (LineNumberReader lnr = new LineNumberReader(fr)) {
while (lnr.readLine() != null){ lines++; }
}
}
else {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("GetFileLinesCount() Method Error!\n"
+ "The supplied file path does not exist!\n(" + filePath + ")");
}
}
catch(IOException e){ e.printStackTrace(); }
return lines;
}
Place this method somewhere within your main class. Now you need to Declare and initialize all your Arrays:
String filePath = "C:\\My Files\\MyDataFile.txt";
int lines = getFileLinesCount(filePath);
String[] CityName = new String[lines];
String[] Country = new String[lines];
int[] LatDeg = new int[lines];
int[] LatMin = new int[lines];
String[] NorthSouth = new String[lines];
int[] LongDeg = new int[lines];
int[] LongMin = new int[lines];
String[] EastWest = new String[lines];
int[] Time = new int[lines];
String[] AMPM = new String[lines];
Now to fill up all those Arrays:
public static void main(String args[]) {
loadUpArrays();
// Do whatever you want to do
// with all those Arrays.....
}
private void loadUpArrays() {
// Read in the data file.
try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filePath))) {
String sCurrentLine;
int x = 0;
// Read in one line at a time and Fill the Arrays...
while ((sCurrentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
// Split each line read into an array upon itself.
String[] fileLine = sCurrentLine.split(",");
// Fill our required Arrays...
CityName[x] = fileLine[0];
Country[x] = fileLine[1];
LatDeg[x] = Integer.parseInt(fileLine[2]);
LatMin[x] = Integer.parseInt(fileLine[3]);
NorthSouth[x] = fileLine[4];
LongDeg[x] = Integer.parseInt(fileLine[5]);
LongMin[x] = Integer.parseInt(fileLine[6]);
EastWest[x] = fileLine[7];
Time[x] = Integer.parseInt(fileLine[8]);
AMPM[x] = fileLine[9];
x++;
}
br.close();
}
catch (IOException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); }
}
Now, I haven't tested this, I just quickly punched it out but I think you can get the jest of it.
EDIT:
As #Mad Physicist has so graciously pointed out within his comment below, a List can be used to eliminate the need to count file lines therefore eliminating the need to read the data file twice. All the file lines can be placed into the List and the number of valid file lines can be determined by the size of the List. Filling of your desired arrays can now also be achieved by iterating through the List elements and processing the data accordingly. Everything can be achieved with a single method we'll call fillArrays(). Your Arrays declaration will be a little different however:
String[] CityName;
String[] Country;
int[] LatDeg;
int[] LatMin;
String[] NorthSouth;
int[] LongDeg;
int[] LongMin;
String[] EastWest;
String[] Time;
String[] AMPM;
public static void main(String args[]) {
fillArrays("C:\\My Files\\MyDataFile.txt");
// Whatever you want to do with all
// those Arrays...
}
private void fillArrays(final String filePath) {
List<String> fileLinesList = new ArrayList<>();
try{
File file = new File(filePath);
if(file.exists()){
try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file))) {
String strg;
while((strg = br.readLine()) != null){
// Make sure there is no blank line. If not
// then add line to List.
if (!strg.equals("")) { fileLinesList.add(strg); }
}
br.close();
}
}
else {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("GetFileLinesCount() Method Error!\n"
+ "The supplied file path does not exist!\n(" + filePath + ")");
}
// Initialize all the Arrays...
int lines = fileLinesList.size();
CityName = new String[lines];
Country = new String[lines];
LatDeg = new int[lines];
LatMin = new int[lines];
NorthSouth = new String[lines];
LongDeg = new int[lines];
LongMin = new int[lines];
EastWest = new String[lines];
Time = new String[lines];
AMPM = new String[lines];
// Fill all the Arrays...
for (int i = 0; i < fileLinesList.size(); i++) {
String[] lineArray = fileLinesList.get(i).split(",");
CityName[i] = lineArray[0];
Country[i] = lineArray[1];
LatDeg[i] = Integer.parseInt(lineArray[2]);
LatMin[i] = Integer.parseInt(lineArray[3]);
NorthSouth[i] = lineArray[4];
LongDeg[i] = Integer.parseInt(lineArray[5]);
LongMin[i] = Integer.parseInt(lineArray[6]);
EastWest[i] = lineArray[7];
Time[i] = lineArray[8];
AMPM[i] = lineArray[9];
}
}
catch(IOException e){ e.printStackTrace(); }
}
On another note...your Time Array can not be Integer since in data, what is considered the time contains a colon (:) which is a alpha character therefore (in case you haven't noticed) I have changed its declaration to String[]

Java Text File comparison - Excess and Missing

I have a requirement to compare 2 text files (MasterCopy.txt and ClientCopy.txt). I would like to get the list of strings which are missing in ClientCopy.txt. Also need to get the list of strings which are in excess.
Contents of MasterCopy.txt
London
Paris
Rome
Contents of ClientCopy.txt
London
Berlin
Rome
Amsterdam
I would like to get these results
Missing:
Paris
Excess:
Berlin
Amsterdam

Two ideas that come to mind are getting the diff of the two files:
https://code.google.com/p/java-diff-utils/
From their wiki
Task 1: Compute the difference between to files and print its deltas
Solution:
import difflib.*;
public class BasicJavaApp_Task1 {
// Helper method for get the file content
private static List<String> fileToLines(String filename) {
List<String> lines = new LinkedList<String>();
String line = "";
try {
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
lines.add(line);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return lines;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
List<String> original = fileToLines("originalFile.txt");
List<String> revised = fileToLines("revisedFile.xt");
// Compute diff. Get the Patch object. Patch is the container for computed deltas.
Patch patch = DiffUtils.diff(original, revised);
for (Delta delta: patch.getDeltas()) {
System.out.println(delta);
}
}
}
or to use a HashSet:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/HashSet.html
Modification of #Nic's answer to use HashSet:
Scanner s = new Scanner(new File(“MasterCopy.txt”));
HashSet<String> masterlist = new HashSet<String>();
while (s.hasNext()){
masterlist.put(s.next());
}
s.close();
s = new Scanner(new File(“ClientCopy.txt”));
HashSet<String> clientlist = new HashSet<String>();
while (s.hasNext()){
clientlist.put(s.next());
}
s.close();
//Do the comparison
ArrayList<String> missing = new ArrayList<String>();
ArrayList<String> excess = new ArrayList<String>();
//Check for missing or excess
for(String line : masterlist){
if(clientlist.get(line) == null) missing.add(line);
}
for(String line : clientlist){
if(masterlist.get(line) == null) excess.add(line);
}

If execution time is not a big factor you can do this, assuming you are only comparing each line:
//Get the files into lists
Scanner s = new Scanner(new File(“MasterCopy.txt”));
HashSet<String> masterlist = new HashSet<String>();
while (s.hasNext()){
masterlist.add(s.next());
}
s.close();
s = new Scanner(new File(“ClientCopy.txt”));
HashSet<String> clientlist = new HashSet<String>();
while (s.hasNext()){
clientlist.add(s.next());
}
s.close();
//Do the comparison
HashSet<String> missing = new HashSet<String>();
HashSet<String> excess = new HashSet<String>();
//Check for missing or excess
for(String s : masterlist){
if(!clientlist.contains(s)) missing.add(s);
}
for(String s : clientlist){
if(!masterlist.contains(s)) excess.add(s);
}

How to read and store data from a text file in which the first line are titles, and the other lines are related data

I have a text file with 300 lines or so. And the format is like:
Name Amount Unit CountOfOrder
A 1 ml 5000
B 1 mgm 4500
C 4 gm 4200
// more data
I need to read the text file line by line because each line of data should be together for further processing.
Now I just use string array for each line and access the data by index.
for each line in file:
array[0] = {data from the 'Name' column}
array[1] = {data from the 'Amount' column}
array[2] = {data from the 'Unit' column}
array[3] = {data from the 'CountOfOrder' column}
....
someOtherMethods(array);
....
However, I realized that if the text file changes its format (e.g. switch two columns, or insert another column), it would break my program (accessing through index might be wrong or even cause exception).
So I would like to use the title as reference to access each column. Maybe HashMap is a good option, but since I have to keep each line of data together, if I build a HashMap for each line, that would be too expensive.
Does anyone have any thought on this? Please help!

you only need a single hash map to map your column names to the proper column index. you fill the arrays by indexing with integers as you did before, to retrieve a column by name you'd use array[hashmap.get("Amount")].

You can read the file using opencsv.
CSVReader reader = new CSVReader(new FileReader("yourfile.txt"), '\t');
List<String[]> lines = reader.readAll();
The fist line contains the headers.

you can read each line of the file and assuming that the first line of the file has the column header you can parse that line to get all the names of the columns.
String[] column_headers = firstline.split("\t");
This will give you the name of all the columns now you just read through splitting on tabs and they will all line up.

You could do something like this:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
new FileInputStream(FILE)));
String line = null;
String[] headers = null;
String[] data = null;
Map<String, List<String>> contents = new HashMap<String, List<String>>();
if ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
headers = line.split("\t");
}
for(String h : headers){
contents.put(h, new ArrayList<String>());
}
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
data = line.split("\t");
if(data.length != headers.length){
throw new Exception();
}
for(int i = 0; i < data.length; i++){
contents.get(headers[i]).add(data[i]);
}
}
It would give you flexibility, and would only require making the map once. You can then get the data lists from the map, so it should be a convenient data structure for the rest of your program to use.

This will give you individual list of columns.
public static void main(String args[]) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
List<String> headerList = new ArrayList<String>();
List<String> column1 = new ArrayList<String>();
List<String> column2 = new ArrayList<String>();
List<String> column3 = new ArrayList<String>();
List<String> column4 = new ArrayList<String>();
int lineCount=0;
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("file.txt"));
try {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = br.readLine();
String tokens[];
while (line != null) {
tokens = line.split("\t");
if(lineCount != 0)
{
int count = 0;
column1.add(tokens[count]); ++count;
column2.add(tokens[count]); ++count;
column3.add(tokens[count]); ++count;
column4.add(tokens[count]); ++count;
continue;
}
if(lineCount==0){
for(int count=0; count<tokens.length; count++){
headerList.add(tokens[count]);
lineCount++;
}
}
}
} catch (IOException e) {
} finally {
br.close();
}
}

using standard java.util.Scanner
String aa = " asd 9 1 3 \n d -1 4 2";
Scanner ss = new Scanner(aa);
ss.useDelimiter("\n");
while ( ss.hasNext()){
String line = ss.next();
Scanner fs = new Scanner(line);
System.out.println( "1>"+ fs.next()+" " +fs.nextInt() +" " +fs.nextLong()+" " +fs.nextBigDecimal());
}
using a bunch of hashmap's is ok...i won't be afraid ;)
if you need to process a lot of data...then try to translate your problem into a dataprocessing transformation
for example:
read all of you data into a hashmap's, but store them in a database using some JPA implementation....then you can go round'a'round your data ;)\