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Contains operation in hashmap key

My hashmap contains one of entry as **key: its-site-of-origin-from-another-site##NOUN** and **value: its##ADJ site-of-origin-from-another-site##NOUN**
i want to get the value of this key on the basis of only key part of `"its-site-of-origin-from-another-site"``
If hashmap contains key like 'its-site-of-origin-from-another-site' then it should be first pick 'its' and then 'site-of-origin-from-another-sit' only not the part after '##'

No. It would be a String so it will pick up whatever after "##" as well. If you need value based on substring then you would have to iterate over the map like:
String value = map.get("its...");
if (value != null) {
//exact match for value
//use it
} else {//or use map or map which will reduce your search time but increase complexity
for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : map.entrySet()) {
if (entry.getKey().startsWith("its...")) {
//that's the value i needed.
}
}
}

You can consider using a Patricia trie. It's a data structure like a TreeMap where the key is a String and any type of value. It's kind of optimal for storage because common string prefix between keys are shared, but the property which is interesting for your use case is that you can search for specific prefix and get a sorted view of the map entries.
Following is an example with Apache Common implementation.
import org.apache.commons.collections4.trie.PatriciaTrie;
public class TrieStuff {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Build a Trie with String values (keys are always strings...)
PatriciaTrie<String> pat = new PatriciaTrie<>();
// put some key/value stuff with common prefixes
Random rnd = new Random();
String[] prefix = {"foo", "bar", "foobar", "fiz", "buz", "fizbuz"};
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
int r = rnd.nextInt(6);
String key = String.format("%s-%03d##whatever", prefix[r], i);
String value = String.format("%s##ADJ %03d##whatever", prefix[r], i);
pat.put(key, value);
}
// Search for all entries whose keys start with "fiz"
SortedMap<String, String> fiz = pat.prefixMap("fiz");
fiz.entrySet().stream().forEach(e -> System.out.println(e));
}
}
Prints all keys that start with "fiz" and sorted.
fiz-000##whatever
fiz-002##whatever
fiz-012##whatever
fiz-024##whatever
fiz-027##whatever
fiz-033##whatever
fiz-036##whatever
fiz-037##whatever
fiz-041##whatever
fiz-045##whatever
fiz-046##whatever
fiz-047##whatever
fizbuz-008##whatever
fizbuz-011##whatever
fizbuz-016##whatever
fizbuz-021##whatever
fizbuz-034##whatever
fizbuz-038##whatever

Java - How to use a for each loop to check the different occurrences of a value in a list of objects

Sorry if the title isn't clear, I wasn't sure how to word it. I have an arraylist of objects and within each of these objects I store an integer value referring to a category and one referring to an ID.
I want to find the number of unique combinations of category and IDs that there are.
So at the moment I have
for(Object object: listofObjects){
//For each unique type of object.getID
//For each unique type of object.getCategory
//Add 1 to counter
}
I can't figure out how to do this. Doing things like for(int cat: object.getCategory()) brings up an error.
I can add the values to a new list within the initial for each loop like so,
ArrayList<Integer> aList= new ArrayList<Integer>();
for (Object object : spriteExplore) {
aList.add(object.getCategory());
}
for (int cat : aList) {
testCounter++;
}
but this obviosuly does not take into account uniqueness and also makes it awkward for factoring in the other variable of ID.
I feel like there is probably some easier work around that I am missing. Any advice?
Thanks in advance.

So you list of UserDefine object in ArrayList and you want to find unique Object.Just create set from list.
For e.g Suppose you have
List<Customer> list=new ArrayList<Custeomer>();
list.add(new Customer("A",12));
list.add(new Customer("B",13));
list.add(new Customer("A",12));
now
create set From this list
Set<Customer> set = new HashSet<Customer>(list);
this will have unique Customer
IMP : dont forget to override equals and hashcode method for Customer

Your best approach would be storing the data correctly.
It's possible that you still need to store non-unique items, if that's so - continue using an ArrayList, but in addition, use the following:
Override the hashcode & equels function as shown in this link:
What issues should be considered when overriding equals and hashCode in Java?
Then, use a Set (HashSet would probably be enough for you) to store all your objects. This data structure will disregard elements which are not unique to elements already inside the set.
Then, all you need to do is query the size of the set, and that gives you the amount of unique elements in the list.

I don't know any library that does this automatically, but you can do it manually using sets. Sets will retain only unique object so if you try to add the same value twice it will only keep one reference.
Set<Integer> categories = new HashSet<Integer>();
Set<Integer> ids= new HashSet<Integer>();
for (Object object : listofObjects) {
categories.add(object.getCategory());
ids.add(object.getID());
}
Then you get the number of unique categories / ids by doing
categories.size()
ids.size()
And all your unique values are stored in the sets if you want to use them.

I would look into using a (Hash)Map<Integer, Integer>. Then just have 1 foreach loop, checking to see if the value of Map<object.getId(), object.getCategory()> is null by checking if map.get(object.getId()) is null - if it is, then this pair does not exist yet, so add this pair into the map by using map.put(object.getId(), object.getCategory()). If not, do nothing. Then at the end, to find the number of unique pairs you can just use map.size()
Hope this helps

Map<Integer,List<Integer>> uniqueCombinations = new HashMap<Integer,List<Integer>>();
for (Object object : listofObjects) {
if(uniqueCombinations.get(object.getCategoryId())==null) {
uniqueCombinations.put(object.getCategoryId(), new LinkedList<Integer>);
}
uniqueCombinations.get(object.getCategoryId()).add(object.getId());
}
return uniqueCombinations.size()

I believe you want unique combinations of both category and id, right?
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
public class SO {
class MyObject{
private int id;
private int category;
private String name;
private MyObject(int id, int category,String name) {
super();
this.id = id;
this.category = category;
this.name = name;
}
protected int getId() {
return id;
}
protected int getCategory() {
return category;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
return "MyObject [id=" + id + ", category=" + category + ", name=" + name + "]";
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SO so = new SO();
List<Object> listofObjects = new ArrayList<Object>();
listofObjects.add(so.new MyObject(1,1,"One"));
listofObjects.add(so.new MyObject(1,1,"Two"));
listofObjects.add(so.new MyObject(1,2,"Three"));
Map<String,List<MyObject>> combinations = new HashMap<String,List<MyObject>>();
for(Object object: listofObjects ){
//For each unique type of object.getID
//For each unique type of object.getCategory
//Add 1 to counter
if (object instanceof MyObject){
MyObject obj = (MyObject)object;
String unique = obj.id+"-"+obj.category;
if (combinations.get(unique) == null){
combinations.put(unique, new ArrayList<MyObject>());
}
combinations.get(unique).add(obj);
}
}
System.out.println(combinations);
//counts
for(Entry<String,List<MyObject>> entry:combinations.entrySet()){
System.out.println(entry.getKey()+"="+entry.getValue().size());
}
}
}

Use the Hashmap to save occurence. Dont forget to implement hashcode und equals Methods. You can generate them if you work with Eclipse IDE.
public static void main(String[] args) {
List<MyObject> myObjects = Arrays.asList(new MyObject(1, 2), new MyObject(2, 3), new MyObject(3, 4), new MyObject(3, 4));
Map<MyObject, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
for (MyObject myObject : myObjects) {
Integer counter = map.get(myObject);
if(counter == null){
counter = 1;
} else {
counter = counter + 1;
}
map.put(myObject, counter);
}
long uniqueness = 0;
for(Integer i : map.values()){
if(i == 1){
++uniqueness;
}
}
System.out.println(uniqueness);
}
The last part can be replaced by this one line expression if you are working with Java 8:
long uniqueness = map.values().stream().filter(i -> i == 1).count();

Retrieve the first and second value from the map

What's the best way to get the first value and second value from the map.
I am trying to read the tableLists map and get the first and second value from the map.
Below is the code I have in which ReadTableConnectionInfo is the class.
private final LinkedHashMap<String, ReadTableConnectionInfo> tableLists;
ReadTableConnectionInfo table = tablePicker();
private ReadTableConnectionInfo tablePicker() {
Random r = new SecureRandom();
ReadTableConnectionInfo table;
if (r.nextFloat() < Read.percentageTable / 100) {
table = get first value from tableLists map
} else {
table = get second value from tableLists map
}
return table;
}

Assuming you are sure that your LinkedHashMap contains at least two values, you could do:
Iterator<Map.Entry<String, ReadTableConnectionInfo >> it = tableLists.entrySet().iterator();
if (r.nextFloat() < Read.percentageTable / 100) {
table = it.next().getValue();
} else { //since you have an else, you have to re-ignore the first value just below
it.next(); // ignoring the first value
table = it.next().getValue(); //repeated here in order to get the second value
}

Iteration of LinkedHashMap values is ordered by the insertion order. So values() is what you need:
Iterator it = values().iterator();
Object first = it.next().getValue();
Object second = it.next().getValue();

Java Parsing Using Hmap

I am new to Java. I want to Parse the data which is in this Format
Apple;Mango;Orange:1234;Orange:1244;...;
There could be more than one "Orange" at any point of time. Numbers (1,2...) increase and accordingly as the "Orange".
Okay. After splitting it, Lets assume I have stored the first two data(Apple, Orange) in a variable(in setter) to return the same in the getter function. And now I want to add the value(1234,1244....etc) in the 'orange' thing into a variable to return it later. Before that i have to check how many oranges have come. For that, i know i have to use for loop. But don't know how to store the "Value" into a variable.
Please Help me guys.

String input = "Apple;Mango;Orange:1234;Orange:1244;...;"
String values[] = input.split(";");
String value1 = values[0];
String value2 = values[1];
Hashmap< String, ArrayList<String> > map = new HashMap<String, ArrayList<String>>();
for(int i = 2; i < values.length; i = i + 2){
String key = values[i];
String id = values[i+1];
if (map.get(key) == null){
map.put(key, new ArrayList<String>());
}
map.get(key).add(id);
}
//for any key s:
// get the values of s
map.get(s); // returns a list of all values added
// get the count of s
map.get(s).size(); // return the total number of values.

Let me try to rephrase the question by how I interpreted it and -- more importantly -- how it focuses on the input and output (expectations), not the actual implementation:
I need to parse the string
"Apple;Mango;Orange:1234;Orange:1244;...;"
in a way so I can retrieve the values associated (numbers after ':') with the fruits:
I should receive an empty list for both the Apple and Mango in the example, because they have no value;
I should receive a list of 1234, 1244 for Orange.
Of course your intuition of HashMap is right on the spot, but someone may always present a better solution if you don't get too involved with the specifics.
There are a few white spots left:
Should the fruits without values have a default value given?
Should the fruits without values be in the map at all?
How input errors should be handled?
How duplicate values should be handled?
Given this context, we can start writing code:
import java.util.*;
public class FruitMarker {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String input = "Apple;Mango;Orange:1234;Orange:1244";
// replace with parameter processing from 'args'
// avoid direct implementations in variable definitions
// also observe the naming referring to the function of the variable
Map<String, Collection<Integer>> fruitIds = new HashMap<String, Collection<Integer>>();
// iterate through items by splitting
for (String item : input.split(";")) {
String[] fruitAndId = item.split(":"); // this will return the same item in an array, if separator is not found
String fruitName = fruitAndId[0];
boolean hasValue = fruitAndId.length > 1;
Collection<Integer> values = fruitIds.get(fruitName);
// if we are accessing the key for the first time, we have to set its value
if (values == null) {
values = new ArrayList<Integer>(); // here I can use concrete implementation
fruitIds.put(fruitName, values); // be sure to put it back in the map
}
if (hasValue) {
int fruitValue = Integer.parseInt(fruitAndId[1]);
values.add(fruitValue);
}
}
// display the entries in table iteratively
for (Map.Entry<String, Collection<Integer>> entry : fruitIds.entrySet()) {
System.out.println(entry.getKey() + " => " + entry.getValue());
}
}
}
If you execute this code, you will get the following output:
Mango => []
Apple => []
Orange => [1234, 1244]

Is there a way to get the value of a HashMap randomly in Java?

Is there a way to get the value of a HashMap randomly in Java?

This works:
Random generator = new Random();
Object[] values = myHashMap.values().toArray();
Object randomValue = values[generator.nextInt(values.length)];
If you want the random value to be a type other than an Object simply add a cast to the last line. So if myHashMap was declared as:
Map<Integer,String> myHashMap = new HashMap<Integer,String>();
The last line can be:
String randomValue = (String) values[generator.nextInt(value.length)];
The below doesn't work, Set.toArray() always returns an array of Objects, which can't be coerced into an array of Map.Entry.
Random generator = new Random();
Map.Entry[] entries = myHashMap.entrySet().toArray();
randomValue = entries[generator.nextInt(entries.length)].getValue();

Since the requirements only asks for a random value from the HashMap, here's the approach:
The HashMap has a values method which returns a Collection of the values in the map.
The Collection is used to create a List.
The size method is used to find the size of the List, which is used by the Random.nextInt method to get a random index of the List.
Finally, the value is retrieved from the List get method with the random index.
Implementation:
HashMap<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
map.put("Hello", 10);
map.put("Answer", 42);
List<Integer> valuesList = new ArrayList<Integer>(map.values());
int randomIndex = new Random().nextInt(valuesList.size());
Integer randomValue = valuesList.get(randomIndex);
The nice part about this approach is that all the methods are generic -- there is no need for typecasting.

Should you need to draw futher values from the map without repeating any elements you can put the map into a List and then shuffle it.
List<Object> valuesList = new ArrayList<Object>(map.values());
Collections.shuffle( valuesList );
for ( Object obj : valuesList ) {
System.out.println( obj );
}

Generate a random number between 0 and the number of keys in your HashMap. Get the key at the random number. Get the value from that key.
Pseudocode:
int n = random(map.keys().length());
String key = map.keys().at(n);
Object value = map.at(key);
If it's hard to implement this in Java, then you could create and array from this code using the toArray() function in Set.
Object[] values = map.values().toArray(new Object[map.size()]);
Object random_value = values[random(values.length)];
I'm not really sure how to do the random number.

Converting it to an array and then getting the value is too slow when its in the hot path.
so get the set (either the key or keyvalue set) and do something like:
public class SetUtility {
public static<Type> Type getRandomElementFromSet(final Set<Type> set, Random random) {
final int index = random.nextInt(set.size());
Iterator<Type> iterator = set.iterator();
for( int i = 0; i < index-1; i++ ) {
iterator.next();
}
return iterator.next();
}

A good answer depends slightly on the circumstances, in particular how often you need to get a random key for a given map (N.B. the technique is essentially the same whether you take key or value).
If you need various random keys
from a given map, without the map
changing in between getting the
random keys, then use the random
sampling method as you iterate
through the key set. Effectively what
you do is iterate over the set
returned by keySet(), and on each
item calculate the probability of
wanting to take that key, given how
many you will need overall and the
number you've taken so far. Then
generate a random number and see if
that number is lower than the
probability. (N.B. This method will always work, even if you only need 1 key; it's just not necessarily the most efficient way in that case.)
The keys in a HashMap are effectively
in pseudo-random order already. In an
extreme case where you will only
ever need one random key for a
given possible map, you could even just
pull out the first element of the
keySet().
In other cases (where you either
need multiple possible random keys
for a given possible map, or the map
will change between you taking random
keys), you essentially have to
create or maintain an array/list of the keys from which you select a
random key.

If you are using Java 8, findAny function in a pretty solution:
MyEntityClass myRandomlyPickedObject = myHashMap.values().stream().findAny();

i really don't know why you want to do this... but if it helps, i've created a RandomMap that automatically randomizes the values when you call values(), then the following runnable demo application might do the job...
package random;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TreeMap;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Map hashMap = makeHashMap();
// you can make any Map random by making them a RandomMap
// better if you can just create the Map as a RandomMap instead of HashMap
Map randomMap = new RandomMap(hashMap);
// just call values() and iterate through them, they will be random
Iterator iter = randomMap.values().iterator();
while (iter.hasNext()) {
String value = (String) iter.next();
System.out.println(value);
}
}
private static Map makeHashMap() {
Map retVal;
// HashMap is not ordered, and not exactly random (read the javadocs)
retVal = new HashMap();
// TreeMap sorts your map based on Comparable of keys
retVal = new TreeMap();
// RandomMap - a map that returns stuff randomly
// use this, don't have to create RandomMap after function returns
// retVal = new HashMap();
for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
retVal.put("key" + i, "value" + i);
}
return retVal;
}
}
/**
* An implementation of Map that shuffles the Collection returned by values().
* Similar approach can be applied to its entrySet() and keySet() methods.
*/
class RandomMap extends HashMap {
public RandomMap() {
super();
}
public RandomMap(Map map) {
super(map);
}
/**
* Randomize the values on every call to values()
*
* #return randomized Collection
*/
#Override
public Collection values() {
List randomList = new ArrayList(super.values());
Collections.shuffle(randomList);
return randomList;
}
}

Here is an example how to use the arrays approach described by Peter Stuifzand, also through the values()-method:
// Populate the map
// ...
Object[] keys = map.keySet().toArray();
Object[] values = map.values().toArray();
Random rand = new Random();
// Get random key (and value, as an example)
String randKey = keys[ rand.nextInt(keys.length) ];
String randValue = values[ rand.nextInt(values.length) ];
// Use the random key
System.out.println( map.get(randKey) );

Usually you do not really want a random value but rather just any value, and then it's nice doing this:
Object selectedObj = null;
for (Object obj : map.values()) {
selectedObj = obj;
break;
}

I wrote a utility to retrieve a random entry, key, or value from a map, entry set, or iterator.
Since you cannot and should not be able to figure out the size of an iterator (Guava can do this) you will have to overload the randEntry() method to accept a size which should be the length of the entries.
package util;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.Set;
public class MapUtils {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<String, Integer>() {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
{
put("Foo", 1);
put("Bar", 2);
put("Baz", 3);
}
};
System.out.println(randEntryValue(map));
}
static <K, V> Entry<K, V> randEntry(Iterator<Entry<K, V>> it, int count) {
int index = (int) (Math.random() * count);
while (index > 0 && it.hasNext()) {
it.next();
index--;
}
return it.next();
}
static <K, V> Entry<K, V> randEntry(Set<Entry<K, V>> entries) {
return randEntry(entries.iterator(), entries.size());
}
static <K, V> Entry<K, V> randEntry(Map<K, V> map) {
return randEntry(map.entrySet());
}
static <K, V> K randEntryKey(Map<K, V> map) {
return randEntry(map).getKey();
}
static <K, V> V randEntryValue(Map<K, V> map) {
return randEntry(map).getValue();
}
}

If you are fine with O(n) time complexity you can use methods like values() or values().toArray() but if you look for a constant O(1) getRandom() operation one great alternative is to use a custom data structure. ArrayList and HashMap can be combined to attain O(1) time for insert(), remove() and getRandom(). Here is an example implementation:
class RandomizedSet {
List<Integer> nums = new ArrayList<>();
Map<Integer, Integer> valToIdx = new HashMap<>();
Random rand = new Random();
public RandomizedSet() { }
/**
* Inserts a value to the set. Returns true if the set did not already contain
* the specified element.
*/
public boolean insert(int val) {
if (!valToIdx.containsKey(val)) {
valToIdx.put(val, nums.size());
nums.add(val);
return true;
}
return false;
}
/**
* Removes a value from the set. Returns true if the set contained the specified
* element.
*/
public boolean remove(int val) {
if (valToIdx.containsKey(val)) {
int idx = valToIdx.get(val);
int lastVal = nums.get(nums.size() - 1);
nums.set(idx, lastVal);
valToIdx.put(lastVal, idx);
nums.remove(nums.size() - 1);
valToIdx.remove(val);
return true;
}
return false;
}
/** Get a random element from the set. */
public int getRandom() {
return nums.get(rand.nextInt(nums.size()));
}
}
The idea comes from this problem from leetcode.com.

It seems that all other high voted answers iterate over all the elements. Here, at least, not all elements must be iterated over:
Random generator = new Random();
return myHashMap.values().stream()
.skip(random.nextInt(myHashMap.size()))
.findFirst().get();

It depends on what your key is - the nature of a hashmap doesn't allow for this to happen easily.
The way I can think of off the top of my head is to select a random number between 1 and the size of the hashmap, and then start iterating over it, maintaining a count as you go - when count is equal to that random number you chose, that is your random element.