I was reading about collection framework of Java. And was studying Hashtable, HashMap and HashSet. Its quite interesting to know the differences between them. In this post I will discuss these three with examples.
Hashtable
Hashtable is basically a datastructure to retain values of key-value pair.
- It didn’t allow null for both key and value. You will get NullPointerException if you add null value.
- It is synchronized. So it comes with its cost. Only one thread can access in one time
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Hashtable<Integer,String>; cityTable = new Hashtable<Integer,String>();cityTable.put(1, "Lahore");cityTable.put(2, "Karachi");cityTable.put(3, null); /* NullPointerEcxeption at runtime*/System.out.println(cityTable.get(1));System.out.println(cityTable.get(2));System.out.println(cityTable.get(3)); |
HashMap
Like Hashtable it also accepts key value pair.
- It allows null for both key and value
- It is unsynchronized. So come up with better performance
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HashMap<Integer,String> productMap = new HashMap<Integer,String>();productMap.put(1, "Keys");productMap.put(2, null); |
HashSet
HashSet does not allow duplicate values. It provides add method rather put method. You also use its contain method to check whether the object is already available in HashSet. HashSet can be used where you want to maintain a unique list.
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HashSet<String> stateSet = new HashSet<String>();stateSet.add ("CA");stateSet.add ("WI");stateSet.add ("NY");if (stateSet.contains("PB")) /* if CA, it will not add but shows following message*/ System.out.println("Already found");else stateSet.add("PB"); |
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