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[jira] Created: (COLLECTIONS-301) Provide SingleValueMap

Provide SingleValueMap
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                 Key: COLLECTIONS-301
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-301
             Project: Commons Collections
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Map
    Affects Versions: 3.2
            Reporter: Michael


I miss an efficient implementation of a SingleValueMap.
The idea goes as follows:
Map<String, String> map = new SingleValueMap<String, String>();

map.put("hello","greeting");
map.put("hola","greeting");
map.put("hallo",greeting");

a normal map would now hold three copies of "greeting". A SingleValueMap would contain only one copy of this value. All keys would map to one copy, identically to a N:1 relaton.

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[jira] Commented: (COLLECTIONS-301) Provide SingleValueMap

Posted by "Michael (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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Michael commented on COLLECTIONS-301:
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Henri,

I re-read java.util.Map and there is no such information whatsoever. Do you have any link proving this actually?

If you are 100 % sure, this is great news for me and this ticket can be closed.

> Provide SingleValueMap
> ----------------------
>
>                 Key: COLLECTIONS-301
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-301
>             Project: Commons Collections
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Map
>    Affects Versions: 3.2
>            Reporter: Michael
>
> I miss an efficient implementation of a SingleValueMap.
> The idea goes as follows:
> Map<String, String> map = new SingleValueMap<String, String>();
> map.put("hello","greeting");
> map.put("hola","greeting");
> map.put("hallo",greeting");
> a normal map would now hold three copies of "greeting". A SingleValueMap would contain only one copy of this value. All keys would map to one copy, identically to a N:1 relaton.

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[jira] Commented: (COLLECTIONS-301) Provide SingleValueMap

Posted by "Henri Yandell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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Henri Yandell commented on COLLECTIONS-301:
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A normal map would also contain only one copy of that value as it would be String interned. The same would hold for other primitive wrapper classes - the JVM often ensures that they are the same Object instance.


> Provide SingleValueMap
> ----------------------
>
>                 Key: COLLECTIONS-301
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-301
>             Project: Commons Collections
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Map
>    Affects Versions: 3.2
>            Reporter: Michael
>
> I miss an efficient implementation of a SingleValueMap.
> The idea goes as follows:
> Map<String, String> map = new SingleValueMap<String, String>();
> map.put("hello","greeting");
> map.put("hola","greeting");
> map.put("hallo",greeting");
> a normal map would now hold three copies of "greeting". A SingleValueMap would contain only one copy of this value. All keys would map to one copy, identically to a N:1 relaton.

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[jira] Closed: (COLLECTIONS-301) Provide SingleValueMap

Posted by "Henri Yandell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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Henri Yandell closed COLLECTIONS-301.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

It's nothing to do with Map, it's a JVM feature. Primitive wrappers and Strings are, to some extent, pooled in the JVM. 

For String's the feature is called 'interning', as it can be forced with a call to String.intern(). I'm not sure what the state of things is with the primitive wrappers.

> Provide SingleValueMap
> ----------------------
>
>                 Key: COLLECTIONS-301
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-301
>             Project: Commons Collections
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Map
>    Affects Versions: 3.2
>            Reporter: Michael
>
> I miss an efficient implementation of a SingleValueMap.
> The idea goes as follows:
> Map<String, String> map = new SingleValueMap<String, String>();
> map.put("hello","greeting");
> map.put("hola","greeting");
> map.put("hallo",greeting");
> a normal map would now hold three copies of "greeting". A SingleValueMap would contain only one copy of this value. All keys would map to one copy, identically to a N:1 relaton.

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