Maps and Sets

[RedKMan]

I'm playing around with maps and sets and I've come across something which I cannot do. I'm trying to get the map interestsFans so it looks like:-

"Programming" { "Peter", "Luke" }
"Cycling" { "Peter", "Thomas" }
"Porno" { "Thomas", "Luke" }
ETC...

import java.util.*;

public class Maps
{


   public static void mapPlay()
   {
      Map<String, Set<String>> personInterests = new HashMap<String, Set<String>>();
      Set<String> allInterests = new HashSet<String>();
      Set<String> allPeople = new HashSet<String>();
      Map<String, Set<String>> interestFans = new HashMap<String, Set<String>>();
      
      Set<String> interests = new HashSet<String>();
      interests.add("Programming");
      interests.add("Cycling");
      interests.add("Walking");
      interests.add("Cinema");
      personInterests.put("Peter", interests);
      
      interests = new HashSet<String>();
      interests.add("Cinema");
      interests.add("Cycling");
      interests.add("Eating");
      interests.add("Porno");
      personInterests.put("Thomas", interests);
      
      interests = new HashSet<String>();
      interests.add("Porno");
      interests.add("Eating");
      interests.add("Programming");
      interests.add("Walking");
      personInterests.put("Luke", interests);
      
      
      /**
       * Populates the set referenced by allPeople with all
       * the people in PersonInterests.  Also populates the
       * set referenced by allInterests with all the interests in
       * personInterests.
       */
      allPeople = personInterests.keySet();
                 
      for (String eachSetValue : personInterests.keySet())
      {
         allInterests.addAll(personInterests.get(eachSetValue) );
      }
       
      System.out.println("personInterests: " + personInterests + "   ");
      System.out.println("allPeople: " + allPeople + "   ");
      System.out.println("allInterests: " + allInterests + "   ");
       
       
      /**
       * Works out which people likes which interests and stores
       * this information in a map.  interests represent
       * the map key and which people like the interests
       * represent the map values.
       */
      for (String eachInterest : allInterests)
      {
         interestFans.put(eachInterest, new TreeSet<String>());
      }
        
      System.out.println("InterestFans: " + interestFans + "   ");
                 
      for (String eachPerson : allPeople)
      {
         for (String eachInterest : personInterests.get(eachPerson))
         {
            System.out.println("eachPerson " + eachPerson);
            System.out.println("eachInterests " + eachInterest);
            
            // ** HOW TO ADD THE PERSON NAME TO THE VALUE SET
            // ** OF THE MAP interestFans CORRESPONDING TO CORRECT
            // ** KEY IN interestFans ??
                         
         }
      }
      
      
   }
   
}

In particular the problem is:-

for (String eachPerson : allPeople)
      {
         for (String eachInterest : personInterests.get(eachPerson))
         {
            System.out.println("eachPerson " + eachPerson);
            System.out.println("eachInterests " + eachInterest);
            
            // ** HOW TO ADD THE PERSON NAME TO THE VALUE SET
            // ** OF THE MAP interestFans CORRESPONDING TO CORRECT
            // ** KEY IN interestFans ??
                         
         }
      }

I hope it makes sense what I'm trying to accomplish. Any help really appreciated.

[JosAH]

I hope it makes sense what I'm trying to accomplish. Any help really appreciated.

No, I'm sorry, it isn't clear to me; can you say it again please, but in words?

kind regards,

Jos

[RedKMan]

OK,

At the moment the map,

Map<String, Set<String>> interestFans = new HashMap<String, Set<String>>();

looks like,

"Programming", { }
"Cycling", { }
etc...

With the code below I am trying to work out an add statement that will see which person likes programming, which person likes cycling etc. and add their name to the set corresponding to that interest.

E.G. Peter likes Programming, so add the name Peter to the set in interestFans whose key is Programming. Repeat this for all the names in the set allPeople and the all that persons interests in the map personInterests.

Does this help?

[JosAH]

OK,

At the moment the map,

Map<String, Set<String>> interestFans = new HashMap<String, Set<String>>();

looks like,

"Programming", { }
"Cycling", { }
etc...

With the code below I am trying to work out an add statement that will see which person likes programming, which person likes cycling etc. and add their name to the set corresponding to that interest.

E.G. Peter likes Programming, so add the name Peter to the set in interestFans whose key is Programming. Repeat this for all the names in the set allPeople and the all that persons interests in the map personInterests.

Does this help?

Yep, now I understand; your map has an interest as a key and a Set of persons as its value; this map only allows you to find the Set of persons given an interest key. Why don't you build another map where the persons are the key and their interests are a Set as the corresponding value? Both maps will be a Map<String, Set<String>>.

kind regards,

Jos