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* java/util/ArrayList.java: Remove RCS keywords from comments
* java/util/BasicMapEntry.java: idem
* java/util/Dictionary.java: idem
* java/util/HashSet.java: idem
* java/util/EventObject.java: reindent
* java/util/Properties.java: idem
* java/util/SortedMap.java: idem
* java/util/Enumeration.java: Merge with Classpath
* java/util/EventListener.java: idem
* java/util/Observable.java: idem
* java/util/Observer.java: idem
* java/util/Stack.java: idem
From-SVN: r40639
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84 lines
3.0 KiB
Java
/* Dictionary.java -- an abstract (and essentially worthless)
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class which is Hashtable's superclass
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Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This file is part of GNU Classpath.
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GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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any later version.
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GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
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02111-1307 USA.
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As a special exception, if you link this library with other files to
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produce an executable, this library does not by itself cause the
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resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License.
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This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the
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executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. */
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package java.util;
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/**
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* A Dictionary maps keys to values; <i>how</i> it does that is
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* implementation-specific.
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*
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* This is an abstract class which has really gone by the wayside.
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* People at Javasoft are probably embarrassed by it. At this point,
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* it might as well be an interface rather than a class, but it remains
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* this poor, laugable skeleton for the sake of backwards compatibility.
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* At any rate, this was what came before the <pre>Map</pre> interface
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* in the Collections framework.
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*
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* @author Jon Zeppieri
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*/
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public abstract class Dictionary extends Object
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{
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/** returns an Enumeration of the values in this Dictionary */
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public abstract Enumeration elements();
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/**
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* returns the value associated with the supplied key, or null
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* if no such value exists
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*
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* @param key the key to use to fetch the value
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*/
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public abstract Object get(Object key);
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/** returns true IFF there are no elements in this Dictionary (size() == 0) */
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public abstract boolean isEmpty();
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/** returns an Enumeration of the keys in this Dictionary */
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public abstract Enumeration keys();
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/**
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* inserts a new value into this Dictionary, located by the
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* supllied key; note: Dictionary's subclasses (all 1 of them)
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* do not support null keys or values (I can only assume this
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* would have been more general)
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*
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* @param key the key which locates the value
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* @param value the value to put into the Dictionary
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*/
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public abstract Object put(Object key, Object value);
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/**
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* removes fro the Dictionary the value located by the given key
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*
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* @param key the key used to locate the value to be removed
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*/
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public abstract Object remove(Object key);
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/** returns the number of values currently in this Dictionary */
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public abstract int size();
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}
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