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i have a hash map that stores user name and password;

Map<String, byte[]> userData = new HashMap<String, byte[]>();
-this map stores a username of type string and password stoerd as hash value

i can successfully add user (user name& password)

i need help in implementing a getPassword(): this method must ask the user to enter username and should return the associated password..

here is my code; pliz help

import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.HashMap;



public class PasswordService
{
//The hash is to be formed using the SHA algorithm
//to create a MessageDigest
private final String algorithmName = "SHA";

//Use a message digest to create hashed passwords
private MessageDigest md = null;

//We simulate a database of users using who have a login and password
//as a key and value pair in a Map
private Map<String, byte[]> userData;

//complete the constructor
public PasswordService()
{
//intialize the class instance data
userData = new HashMap<String, byte[]>();
try {
md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA");
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
System.out.println("No Such Algorithm");
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

public void addUser(String login, String password)
{

Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);

for(;;){
System.out.print ("Enter login name..");
login = in.nextLine();

System.out.print("Password: ");
password = in.nextLine();

byte[] pass = md.digest(password.getBytes());
userData.put(login, pass);

System.out.println("User added successfully..");

Iterator iterator = userData.keySet().iterator();
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
String key = (String) iterator.next();
System.out.println("Login: " + key + " Password: " + userData.get(key));
}
}
}

public byte[] getPassword(String login)
{
//TODO
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.println("Please enter login name....");
login = sc.nextLine();

// String pass = new String(new byte[]<userData>);
byte[] bt = new <byte[]> userData.get(login);
System.out.println("Password " + bt);
return null;
}
}
 
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First, please put your code between code tags.

What exactly is your problem here ? What error message do you get? Where does your program choke ? Without this information it's hard to help you ...
 
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um getting a "userData cannot be resolved as type".. nid help with th getPassword() method
 
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Could you post a stacktrace ?

Also, this looks weird



A cast is done with (), and you do not instantiate a value that comes from a map, since it alreadt holds the instance.
 
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thnx.. i used () to cast n it works perfectly...

thnx! thnx!
 
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This also creates an endless loop:



From what I can gather from your code it looks like it isn't required either.
 
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