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LinkedHashMap with values as a vector being overwritten

When I wrote this piece of code due to the pnValue.clear(); the output I was getting was null values for the keys. So I read somewhere that adding values of one map to the other is a mere reference to the original map and one has to use the clone() method to ensure the two maps are separate. Now the issue I am facing after cloning my map is that if I have multiple values for a particular key then they are being over written. E.g. The output I am expecting from processing a goldSentence is:
{PERSON = [James Fisher],ORGANIZATION=[American League, Chicago Bulls]}
but what I get is:
{PERSON = [James Fisher],ORGANIZATION=[Chicago Bulls]}
I wonder where I am going wrong considering I am declaring my values as a Vector<String>
for(WSDSentence goldSentence : goldSentences)
{
for (WSDElement word : goldSentence.getWsdElements()){
if (word.getPN()!=null){
if (word.getPN().equals("group")){
String newPNTag = word.getPN().replace("group", "organization");
pnValue.add(word.getToken().replaceAll("_", " "));
newPNValue = (Vector<String>) pnValue.clone();
annotationMap.put(newPNTag.toUpperCase(),newPNValue);
}
else{
pnValue.add(word.getToken().replaceAll("_", " "));
newPNValue = (Vector<String>) pnValue.clone();
annotationMap.put(word.getPN().toUpperCase(),newPNValue);
}
}
sentenceAnnotationMap = (LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>>) annotationMap.clone();
pnValue.clear();
}
EDITED CODE
Replaced Vector with List and removed cloning. However this still doesn't solve my problem. This takes me back to square one where my output is : {PERSON=[], ORGANIZATION=[]}
for(WSDSentence goldSentence : goldSentences)
{
for (WSDElement word : goldSentence.getWsdElements()){
if (word.getPN()!=null){
if (word.getPN().equals("group")){
String newPNTag = word.getPN().replace("group", "organization");
pnValue.add(word.getToken().replaceAll("_", " "));
newPNValue = (List<String>) pnValue;
annotationMap.put(newPNTag.toUpperCase(),newPNValue);
}
else{
pnValue.add(word.getToken().replaceAll("_", " "));
newPNValue = pnValue;
annotationMap.put(word.getPN().toUpperCase(),newPNValue);
}
}
sentenceAnnotationMap = annotationMap;
}
pnValue.clear();

You're trying a bunch of stuff without really thinking through the logic behind it. There's no need to clear or clone anything, you just need to manage separate lists for separate keys. Here's the basic process for each new value:
If the map contains our key, get the list and add our value
Otherwise, create a new list, add our value, and add the list to the map
You've left out most of your variable declarations, so I won't try to show you the exact solution, but here's the general formula:
List<String> list = map.get(key); // try to get the list
if (list == null) { // list doesn't exist?
list = new ArrayList<>(); // create an empty list
map.put(key, list); // insert it into the map
}
list.add(value); // update the list

Compare data of two or more maps

I am stuck with the below requirement and not sure how can I proceed with it:
I have a function like:
public void compareExcel(Map<Object,List<HashMap>>) compareMaps){}
This function will take a map as an input parameter. This map will contain the sheet name vs Sheet values(Column name - column values) mapping.
Basically the function input parameters will be like:
<Excel1,(scenario:10)
(timing: 20)
Excel2,(scenario:30)
(timing: 40)
Excel3,(scenario:50)
(timing: 60)
>
Here my excel1 having two columns(scenario and timings) and having values as 10 and 20 respectively.
In the result, I will be needing the comparison like:
Map>
<scenario, <excel1,10>
<excel2,30>
<excel3,50>
timing, <excel1,20>
<excel2,40>
<excel3,60>
>
Any help will be appreciated.

Create/initialize the details of you output data-structure
LOOP (over the excelName:List pairs in you input)
LOOP (over the List that is the value in the pair)
//Each entry in the list is a map
Get the key-name (e.g. "scenario")
Get the value (e.g. "10")
//You already know the out key (i.e the excelName)
With the three known values, build/add to your output data-structure

On mobile so I can't even check syntax, but...
Map recopilation = new HashMap();
for(Object sheetName : compareMaps.keySet()) {
Map sheet = compareMaps.get(sheetName);
for (Object columnName : sheet.keySet()) {
if (recopilation.get(columnName) == null) {
recopilation.put(columnName, new HashMap());
}
((Map) recopilation.get(columnName)).put(sheetName, sheet.get(columnName));
}
}
Something like that. If it works, you should really throw some generics in there, I didn't mostly to save some typing.

How to iterate list inside a map in ftl?

I have two value objects and i have to write a file using free marker while i am writing it using simply java i am able to iterate the list but don't know how to iterate a map whick consist a variable as well as a list. in my one value object BranchArea i have variable like name and id and a list of Branch. Branch is another value object who as a variable like name etc. i am iterating in java like this
List <BranchArea> branchAreaList = new ArrayList<BranchArea>();
Iterator<BranchArea> itrBranchArea = branchAreaList.iterator();
while (itrBranchArea.hasNext()) {
BranchArea branchAreaObj = itrBranchArea.next();
LOGGER.error("Branch Area Name is"+branchAreaObj.getBranchAreaName());
Iterator<Branch> itrBranch = branchAreaObj.getBranches().iterator();
while(itrBranch.hasNext()){
Branch branchObj = itrBranch.next();
LOGGER.error("Branch Name is"+branchObj.getBranchName());
}
}
branchAreaList Consist object of BranchArea. For Ftl i convert the branchAreaList into map
HashMap<String, List<BranchArea>> branchAreaMap = new HashMap<String, List<BranchArea>>();
branchAreaMap.put("branchAreaList", branchAreaList);
How can i iterate them in Ftl as i iterate it above

You can iterate over keys of your Map, and get the elements by this way:
<#list branchAreaMap?keys as key>
${key} = ${branchAreaMap[key])}
</#list>

Check value inside Map

I have a Map where I save values with the form NAME-GROUP.
Before doing some operations, I need to know if the Map contains a specific group,
for example: I need to check for values containing group1 like Mark-group1.
I'm trying to get it this way:
if (checkList.containsValue(group1)) {
exists = true;
}
I can't provide the name when searching because there could be diferent names with the same group.
But it isn't finding the value, as seems that this function just looks for the entire value string and not only for part of it.
So, there would be any way of achieving this, or would I need to change the way I'm focusing my code.
Update--
This is the looking of my Map:
Map<Integer, String> checkList = new HashMap<Integer, String>();
I load some values from a database and I set them into the Map:
if (c.moveToFirst()) {
int checkKey = 0;
do {
checkKey++;
checkList.put(checkKey, c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(TravelOrder.RELATION)));
}while(c.moveToNext());
}
The relation column, has values like: mark-group1, jerry-group1, lewis-group2, etc...
So, the Map will have a structure like [1, mark-group1], etc...
What I need is to check if there is any value inside the map that contains the string group1 for example, I don't care about the name, I just need to know if that group exists there.

If you want to check any value contain your string as a substring you have to do the following:
for (String value : yourMap.values()) {
if (value.contains(subString)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
By the way if your values in the map are really have two different parts, i suggest to store them in a structure with two fields, so they can be easily searched.

Changing LinkedHashMapValues

Below is data from 2 linkedHashMaps:
valueMap: { y=9.0, c=2.0, m=3.0, x=2.0}
formulaMap: { y=null, ==null, m=null, *=null, x=null, +=null, c=null, -=null, (=null, )=null, /=null}
What I want to do is input the the values from the first map into the corresponding positions in the second map. Both maps take String,Double as parameters.
Here is my attempt so far:
for(Map.Entry<String,Double> entryNumber: valueMap.entrySet()){
double doubleOfValueMap = entryNumber.getValue();
for(String StringFromValueMap: strArray){
for(Map.Entry<String,Double> entryFormula: formulaMap.entrySet()){
String StringFromFormulaMap = entryFormula.toString();
if(StringFromFormulaMap.contains(StringFromValueMap)){
entryFormula.setValue(doubleOfValueMap);
}
}
}
}
The problem with doing this is that it will set all of the values i.e. y,m,x,c to the value of the last double. Iterating through the values won't work either as the values are normally in a different order those in the formulaMap. Ideally what I need is to say is if the string in formulaMap is the same as the string in valueMap, set the value in formulaMap to the same value as in valueMap.
Let me know if you have any ideas as to what I can do?

This is quite simple:
formulaMap.putAll(valueMap);
If your value map contains key which are not contained in formulaMap, and you don't want to alter the original, do:
final Map<String, Double> map = new LinkedHashMap<String, Double>(valueMap);
map.keySet().retainAll(formulaMap.keySet());
formulaMap.putAll(map);
Edit due to comment It appears the problem was not at all what I thought, so here goes:
// The result map
for (final String key: formulaMap.keySet()) {
map.put(formulaMap.get(key), valueMap.get(key));
// Either return the new map, or do:
valueMap.clear();
valueMap.putAll(map);

for(Map.Entry<String,Double> valueFormula: valueMap.entrySet()){
formulaMap.put(valueFormula.getKey(), valueFormula.value());
}