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Comparing hashmaps of hashmaps

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Posted By: Jennifer_Pinkham
Posted On: Thursday, March 21, 2002 01:32 PM

I am a Perl programmer by nature and I need to know how to compare values in what would be in Perl two hashes of hashes. In Java, I have two HashMaps, one for the "current" data value and one for the "LastKnownGood" data value. The first hashmap is keyed on server name. This hashmap contains a hashmap (for each server) of various data keys and values. I need to know how, when iterating through my "current" value map, to compare that value to the same data key of the same server in the "LastKnownGood" map. This was a breeze in Perl, but I am totally stumped in how to do this in Java. Any help would be much appreciated. More>>

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Re: Comparing hashmaps of hashmaps

Posted By: Anonymous
Posted On: Saturday, March 30, 2002 09:56 AM

Hi, is this something like you needed?

Iterator serverNames = current.keySet().iterator();
Iterator keys = null;
String serverName = null;
String key = null;
String currentValue = null;
String lastGoodValue = null;
while(serverNames.hasNext()){
	serverName = (String)serverNames.next();
	keys = ((HashMap)current.get(serverName)).keySet().iterator();
	while(keys.hasNext()){
		key = (String)keys.next();
		currentValue = (String)((HashMap)(HashMap)current.get(serverName)).get(key);
		lastGoodValue = (String)((HashMap)(HashMap)lastKnownGood.get(serverName)).get(key);
		//Compare currentValue and lastGoodValue
		System.out.println(currentValue);
		System.out.println(lastGoodValue);
	}
}

It iterates through "current" HashMap and compares values in every "server" HashMap to same named "server" HashMap in "lastKnownGood" HashMap. I didn't include any null checking..

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