How to determine the size of object (facilityExceptionData) in code below

[neetigya]

Map<String,Map> facilityExceptionData = new HashMap<String, Map>(10000);
List openTime = null;
List closeTime = null;
List dayOfWeek = null;
List scheduledDateList = null;
int facilityNum1 = 0;
Map<String,Object> scheduleTableOne = null;
while(rs.next()){ 
if(!facilityExceptionData.containsKey("Facility_num_" + resultSet.getInt("Owner"))){
if(null != scheduleTableOne && !scheduleTableOne.isEmpty()){
scheduleTableOne.put("openTime",openTime ); 
scheduleTableOne.put("CloseTime",closeTime );
scheduleTableOne.put("DAYOfWeek", dayOfWeek);
scheduleTableOne.put("ScheduleDate", scheduledDateList );

}
scheduleTableOne = new HashMap<String,Object>(5);
openTime = new ArrayList(7);
openTime.add(18);
closeTime = new ArrayList(7);
closeTime.add(18);
dayOfWeek = new ArrayList(7);
dayOfWeek.add(1); 
scheduledDateList = new ArrayList(7);
scheduledDateList.add(rs.getDate("SCHEDULED_DATE"));
scheduleTable.put("Owner", 415402);
scheduleTable.put("Usage", 1); 
facilityNum = rs.getInt("Owner");
facilityExceptionData.put("Facility_num" + facilityNum,scheduleTable);
}else{
openTime.add(rs.getInt("OPEN_TIME"));
closeTime.add(rs.getInt("CLOSE_TIME"));
dayOfWeek.add(rs.getInt("DAY_OF_WEEK"));
scheduledDateList.add(rs.getDate("SCHEDULED_DATE"));

}
}

How can i measure the size of object(HashMap) facilityExceptionData in above code . I have shown entry for Single Key in *facilityExceptionData * HashMap in above code snippet but in real scenario facilityExceptionData would hold 10000 Keys and value of these keys would be similar to object (*scheduleTableOne*)

Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.

[Norm]

the size of object(HashMap)

Are you asking for the number of bytes used in memory?
I don't think there is any way to get that directly.

[neetigya]

Hi Norm,

Yes, i want to know the memory space occupied(in Bytes) by facilityExceptionData.

[j2me64]

Yes, i want to know the memory space occupied(in Bytes) by facilityExceptionData.

the hashmap has a method called size() that returns only the number of elements in the collection. the size in bytes in the hashmap is not directly depending in the number of elements but in the size of the objects stored in it. what you could do is iterating through your collection and calculating the sum of the stored string objects or other referenced objects in it.

[Tolls]

Apart from the "not really able to determine how big an object is", since how you handle Strings can affect how you calculate something like that (as an example)...scheduleTableOne should clearly be an object of some class representing that data. Using a Map like that is just plain wrong.

[Norm]

The size of the hashmap wouldn't include the size of the key and value objects that the hashmap contains references to. The data in the hashmap is just pointers and lists of pointers, the data pointed to is somewhere else.

[Tolls]

Yep.
But if those objects solely exist in the collection then I suppose you could argue they were part of the size of that collection...of course how you'd determine this...

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