equals
and hashCode
methods follow the the rules laid out in Effective Java by Joshua Bloch. To generate a KeyFactory
, you need to supply an interface which describes the structure of the key. The interface should have a single method named newInstance
, which returns an Object
. The arguments array can be anything--Objects, primitive values, or single or multi-dimension arrays of either. For example:
private interface IntStringKey { public Object newInstance(int i, String s); }
Once you have made a KeyFactory
, you generate a new key by calling the newInstance
method defined by your interface.
IntStringKey factory = (IntStringKey)KeyFactory.create(IntStringKey.class); Object key1 = factory.newInstance(4, "Hello"); Object key2 = factory.newInstance(4, "World");
Note: hashCode
equality between two keys key1
and key2
is only guaranteed if key1.equals(key2)
and the keys were produced by the same factory.
@version $Id: KeyFactory.java,v 1.24 2004/09/18 21:22:22 herbyderby Exp $
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