Re: Vector of a vector?

["Joe Sam Shirah" <jshirah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Hi Ron,

    As Franco indicated, you can put any Object in a Vector, and get the
effect of Vectors of Vectors of...  But this statement is a little confusing
to me:

> I have a Property object that I'd like to put in a vProp vector that
> is located in an index of the vStreet vector?

    I often use what I call corresponding arrays - for a quick and probably
bad example, arrays of client id and client name, where each element refers
to the same client.  You could do a similar thing with Vectors.  One issue
though, is that when items are removed from a collection, including Vectors,
the index changes, so you have to be careful that all associated vectors are
in synch.

    I don't know your app, so this make not make sense in context, but an
approach I'd prefer would be to have a subclass of Street ( or add to the
existing class ) in which each instance contains a reference to the
appropriate Property Vector.  Then you don't have to worry further about
correspondence.

    In later versions of the JVM, synchronization in Vectors is not such a
big deal, but, unless synchronization is required, it's curious at this
stage why anyone would not prefer a newer collection.


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Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 2:30 PM
Subject: Vector of a vector?


> Can I do a 2 dim vector?
>
> What I have is a list of streets, and for each street there is a list of
> propertys.  I have a street object that I'm putting in a vStreet vector
> now.  I have a Property object that I'd like to put in a vProp vector that
> is located in an index of the vStreet vector?  Any ideas?  I know
> ArrayList is better, but I was told to use a Vector :(
>
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