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Message:

wanna change the value in the HashMap

Posted by Mei-Tzu on September 27, 2000 at 10:00 PM

I have some problems with my HashMap
Currently I have three classes : Customer, CustomerList, and Teller

(1)
public class Customer {
�..//instance variables and other methods

public int getArrivalTime() {

//use total minutes to generate an arrival time
//between 9:00 to 17:00

return arrivalTime;
}

public int getQueTime (){ //need to be calculated in another class -- TellerList
return queTime;
}
(2) another class called �CustomerList�
in this class I create a LinkedList customers

(3) the third class called �TellerList� with three tellers(keys)
public class TellerList {
private Map tellers;

public TellerList (){
Map tellers = new HashMap();
tellers.put("Teller1", "536");//first give each teller an availableTime
tellers.put("Teller2", "537");
tellers.put("Teller3", "538");
}
public void runTeller() {
Set entries=tellers.entrySet();//search for the key/value in the map
Iterator it = entries.iterator();

while (it.hasNext()) {
Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry)it.next();
Object tellerName = entry.getKey();
Object availableTime = entry.getValue();
Problem 1:
To my understanding, I can replace the value using setValue(), and this is what I want. The value in the map is the teller�s available time, and this changes when a customer comes and leaves. Is it the right to use the HashMap?
Problem 2:
I tried to replace ( Object tellerName = entry.getKey() ) with (String tellerName = entry.getKey()) as well as the available time in the TellerList class, but I got error messages. I wanna compare the
AvailableTime with the customer�s arrival time later in the class, how can I compare an
Object availableTime with an Integer arrivalTime?
Problem 3:
How to use the setValue() method?

I really appreciate any opinions, just to get me out of here. Thank you!!