What is the Java equivalent of Objective-C's NSDictionary?

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styler1972 picture styler1972 · Nov 14, 2011 · Viewed 11.8k times · Source

What is the closest implementation of Objective-C's NSDictionary in Java? To me, it looks like HashMap<String, Object>, but I'm very new to Objective-C.

Thanks

Answer

Barry Wark picture Barry Wark · Nov 14, 2011

NSDictionary is a class cluster (see the "Class Cluster" section in The Cocoa Fundamentals Guide), meaning that the actual implementation is hidden from you, the API user. In fact, the Foundation framework will choose the appropriate implementation at run time based on amount of data etc. In addition, NSDictionary can take any id as a key, not just NSString (of course, the -hash of the key object must be constant).

Thus, closest analog is probably Map<Object,Object>.

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