org.apache.commons.collections
Interface OrderedBidiMap

All Superinterfaces:

BidiMap, IterableMap, Map, OrderedMap

All Known Subinterfaces:

SortedBidiMap

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractOrderedBidiMapDecorator, AbstractSortedBidiMapDecorator, DualTreeBidiMap, TreeBidiMap

public interface OrderedBidiMap

extends BidiMap, OrderedMap

Defines a map that allows bidirectional lookup between key and values and retains and provides access to an ordering.

Implementations should allow a value to be looked up from a key and a key to be looked up from a value with equal performance.

Since:

Commons Collections 3.0

Version:

$Revision: 1.4 $ $Date: 2004/02/18 01:15:42 $

Author:

Stephen Colebourne

Method Summary

BidiMap	inverseBidiMap() Gets a view of this map where the keys and values are reversed.
OrderedBidiMap	inverseOrderedBidiMap() Gets a view of this map where the keys and values are reversed.

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.commons.collections.BidiMap

getKey, mapIterator, put, removeValue

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Map

clear, containsKey, containsValue, entrySet, equals, get, hashCode, isEmpty, keySet, putAll, remove, size, values

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.commons.collections.OrderedMap

firstKey, lastKey, nextKey, orderedMapIterator, previousKey

Method Detail

inverseBidiMap

public BidiMap inverseBidiMap()

Gets a view of this map where the keys and values are reversed.

Changes to one map will be visible in the other and vice versa. This enables both directions of the map to be accessed equally.

Implementations should seek to avoid creating a new object every time this method is called. See AbstractMap.values() etc. Calling this method on the inverse map should return the original.

Implementations must return an OrderedBidiMap instance, usually by forwarding to inverseOrderedBidiMap().

Specified by:

inverseBidiMap in interface BidiMap

Returns:

an inverted bidirectional map

inverseOrderedBidiMap

public OrderedBidiMap inverseOrderedBidiMap()

Gets a view of this map where the keys and values are reversed.

Changes to one map will be visible in the other and vice versa. This enables both directions of the map to be accessed equally.

Implementations should seek to avoid creating a new object every time this method is called. See AbstractMap.values() etc. Calling this method on the inverse map should return the original.

Returns:

an inverted bidirectional map