problem in Hashtable

[nisu pathak]

i am getting ClassCastException even if i am explicitely casting custom object into string ..i want to know the reason why it is happening.
//any implementation of map will throw null pointer exception
import java.util.*;

class student
{
private String id;
public student(){}
public student(String id) {this.id=id;}
}

public class HashTableExample
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
Hashtable h = new Hashtable();

h.put("A","Apple");
h.put(new StringBuffer("p").toString(),"nitesh");
h.put(new student("p").toString(),"naresh");
Set<String> s=h.entrySet();

for(String str:s)
{
String s1=(String)h.get(s);

System.out.println(s1);
}


}
}

give me some suggestions
Thanks

[Henry Wong]

nisu pathak wrote:i am getting ClassCastException even if i am explicitely casting custom object into string ..i want to know the reason why it is happening.
//any implementation of map will throw null pointer exception

import java.util.*;

class student
{
	private String id;
	public student(){} 
	public student(String id) {this.id=id;}
}

public class HashTableExample
{
	public static void main(String args[])
	{
	Hashtable h = new Hashtable();

	h.put("A","Apple");
	h.put(new StringBuffer("p").toString(),"nitesh");
	h.put(new student("p").toString(),"naresh");
	Set<String> s=h.entrySet();

	for(String str:s)
	{
		String s1=(String)h.get(s);

	System.out.println(s1);
	}
		
		
	}
}

An entry set hold entry objects. Entry objects are not strings objects, and hence, can't be casted to strings.

Henry

[nisu pathak]

i have not explicitely defined entry type.but key or entry can be anything .in this case entry should be of type String .even if i type case entry into String it doesn't work .so how it can be possible ?

[Henry Wong]

nisu pathak wrote:i have not explicitely defined entry type.but key or entry can be anything .in this case entry should be of type String .even if i type case entry into String it doesn't work .so how it can be possible ?

Here is the javadoc of the entry class...

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Map.Entry.html

In your code (using my post, since you didn't use code tags), a set of this type is returned in line 19. Later, in line 21, you used the enhanced for loop, which uses an iterator of entries. It is at this line that the assignment fails.


EDIT: in reviewing a bit more, it looks like the assignment at line 19 should fail also, as a Set<Map.Entry<String, String>> is not a Set<String> -- so this line should fail first.

Henry

[Ulf Dittmer]

nisu pathak wrote:i have not explicitely defined entry type.but key or entry can be anything.

You're confusing the value with the entry. An entry is the combination of a key and a value.