I have a class with its own hashCode() method. I am adding this class to a HashSet. How can I remove an item by its hashCode, without knowing the object itself?
For example, if I have the following code
HashSet<Data> set = new HashSet<>();
set.add(new Data(10, 5));
...
class Data {
public int importantVal;
public int notImportantVal;
//... constructor ...
@Override
public int hashCode() {
return importantVal;
}
}
and I knew the importantVal of a Data object, but not the object itself. How would I remove it? set.remove(10) does not work.
Best solution I can think of is to also override equals() to return if importantVal is the same, and then do set.remove(new Data(10, anyPlaceholderValue))
set.removeIf(v -> v.getImportantVal() == importantVal);. Not sure why you're using that as the hash code.importantValof every object in the set, rather than taking advantage of the fact that that's the hash code.HashMap<Integer, List<Data>>instead of aHashSet<Data>.