edu.stanford.nlp.util
Class MapFactory

java.lang.Object
  edu.stanford.nlp.util.MapFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public abstract class MapFactory
extends Object
implements Serializable

Factory for vending Maps.

Author:

Dan Klein (klein@cs.stanford.edu), Kayur Patel (kdpatel@cs)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

static MapFactory	ARRAY_MAP_FACTORY
static MapFactory	HASH_MAP_FACTORY
static MapFactory	IDENTITY_HASH_MAP_FACTORY
static MapFactory	TREE_MAP_FACTORY
static MapFactory	WEAK_HASH_MAP_FACTORY

Constructor Summary

MapFactory()

Method Summary

abstract Map	newMap()
abstract <K1,V1> Map<K1,V1>	setMap(Map<K1,V1> map) A method to get a parameterized map out.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

HASH_MAP_FACTORY

public static final MapFactory HASH_MAP_FACTORY

IDENTITY_HASH_MAP_FACTORY

public static final MapFactory IDENTITY_HASH_MAP_FACTORY

WEAK_HASH_MAP_FACTORY

public static final MapFactory WEAK_HASH_MAP_FACTORY

TREE_MAP_FACTORY

public static final MapFactory TREE_MAP_FACTORY

ARRAY_MAP_FACTORY

public static final MapFactory ARRAY_MAP_FACTORY

Constructor Detail

MapFactory

public MapFactory()

Method Detail

newMap

public abstract Map newMap()

setMap

public abstract <K1,V1> Map<K1,V1> setMap(Map<K1,V1> map)

A method to get a parameterized map out.

Parameters:

map - a type-parameterized Map argument

Returns:

a Map with type-parameterization identical to that of the argument.