Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. */ import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.Map; public class Main { /** * Compares the two specified maps for equality. Returns * <tt>true</tt> if the two maps represent the same mappings. More formally, two maps <tt>m1</tt> and * <tt>m2</tt> represent the same mappings if * <tt>m1.keySet().equals(m2.keySet())</tt> and for every key <tt>k</tt> * in <tt>m1.keySet()</tt>, <tt> (m1.get(k)==null ? m2.get(k)==null : * m1.get(k).equals(m2.get(k))) </tt>. * <p/> * This implementation first checks if the <tt>m1</tt> and <tt>m2</tt> are the same object; * if so it returns <tt>true</tt>. Then, it checks if the two maps have the same sizw; if * not, it returns <tt>false</tt>. If so, it iterates over <tt>m1</tt>'s * <tt>entrySet</tt> collection, and checks that map <tt>m1</tt> * contains each mapping that map <tt>m2</tt> contains. If map <tt>m1</tt> * fails to contain such a mapping, <tt>false</tt> is returned. If the * iteration completes, <tt>true</tt> is returned. * * @return <tt>true</tt> if the specified object is equal to this map. */ public static boolean equals(Map m1, Map m2) { if (m2 == m1) return true; if (m1 == null) return false; if (m2 == null) return false; if (m2.size() != m1.size()) return false; try { for (Iterator it = m1.entrySet().iterator(); it.hasNext();) { Map.Entry e = (Map.Entry) it.next(); Object key = e.getKey(); Object value = e.getValue(); if (value == null) { if (!(m2.get(key) == null && m2.containsKey(key))) return false; } else { if (!value.equals(m2.get(key))) return false; } } } catch (ClassCastException unused) { return false; } catch (NullPointerException unused) { return false; } return true; } }