A general question regarding hashcode from K&B(scjp5)

[mohammad shaid]

A general question regarding hashcode from K&B(scjp5) page 533.now we know that if the hashcode value is defined like the
one in class car regardless of the whether the equals method return true or false;all the objects land in the same bucket
time taking to locate the correct object;
Now my question is if we delete a car key from a hashmap,will all the map entries for all keys of type car be deleted??
I am not clear on this.can someone explain please?
public class Car {
private model;
public Car(String model) {
this.model=model;
}
public int hashcode() {
return 1492;
}
}

[Henry Wong]

mohammad shaid wrote:
Now my question is if we delete a car key from a hashmap,will all the map entries for all keys of type car be deleted??

From the Javadoc, Map interface, remove() method...

remove

public Object remove(Object key)

Removes the mapping for this key from this map if it is present (optional operation). More formally, if this map contains a mapping from key k to value v such that (key==null ? k==null : key.equals(k)), that mapping is removed. (The map can contain at most one such mapping.)

So... only the object who are considered equal by the equals() method will get deleted.

Henry

[mohammad shaid]

Thanks Henry..