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Java Java Data Structures Exploring the Java Collection Framework Maps

Not sure what to loop through in the second for loop.

I think to find a String in the second for each loop I should be looking for a list of String that contains a list of the different types of categories. I do not know how to create this list.

com/example/BlogPost.java
package com.example;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;


public class BlogPost implements Comparable<BlogPost>, Serializable {
  private String mAuthor;
  private String mTitle;
  private String mBody;
  private String mCategory;
  private Date mCreationDate;

  public BlogPost(String author, String title, String body, String category, Date creationDate) {
    mAuthor = author;
    mTitle = title;
    mBody = body;
    mCategory = category;
    mCreationDate = creationDate;
  }

  public int compareTo(BlogPost other) {
    if (equals(other)) {
      return 0;
    }
    return mCreationDate.compareTo(other.mCreationDate);
  }

  public String[] getWords() {
    return mBody.split("\\s+");
  }

  public List<String> getExternalLinks() {
    List<String> links = new ArrayList<String>();
    for (String word : getWords()) {
      if (word.startsWith("http")) {
        links.add(word);
      }
    }
    return links;
  }


  public String getAuthor() {
    return mAuthor;
  }

  public String getTitle() {
    return mTitle;
  }

  public String getBody() {
    return mBody;
  }

  public String getCategory() {
    return mCategory;
  }

  public Date getCreationDate() {
    return mCreationDate;
  }
}
com/example/Blog.java
package com.example;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.TreeSet;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.HashMap;

public class Blog {
  List<BlogPost> mPosts;

  public Blog(List<BlogPost> posts) {
    mPosts = posts;
  }

  public List<BlogPost> getPosts() {
    return mPosts;
  }

  public Set<String> getAllAuthors() {
    Set<String> authors = new TreeSet<>();
    for (BlogPost post: mPosts) {
      authors.add(post.getAuthor());
    }
    return authors;
  }

  Map <String, Integer> getCategoryCounts() {
    Map<String, Integer> categoryCounts = new HashMap <String, Integer>();
    for (BlogPost bp : mPosts) {
      for (String category : bp.getCategory()  ){ 
        Integer count = categoryCounts.get(category);
        if (count == null) {
          count = 0;
        }
        count ++;
        categoryCounts.put(category, count);
      }
    }
    return categoryCounts;
  }

}

2 Answers

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

try

  public Map<String, Integer> getCategoryCounts() {
    Map<String, Integer> categoryCounts = new HashMap <String, Integer>();
    for (BlogPost bp : mPosts) {
     String category = bp.getCategory() ;
        Integer count = categoryCounts.get(category);
        if (count == null) {
          count = 0;
        }
        count++;
        categoryCounts.put(category, count);
    }
    return categoryCounts;
  }

You were attempting to loop on a string (getCategory returns a single category string). You also needed a function scope.

Bill Wolfe
PLUS
Bill Wolfe
Courses Plus Student 8,428 Points

I think I can clear up the confusion about the two for loops:

In Craig's treet example in the class video, he loops twice using two for loops. The reason that he had to do that was, in each of the treets there was the possibility of having more than one #hashtag. He had to start by using a for loop that would go through all the treets one at a time.

So, the first for loop pulls up a treet and turns it over to the second for loop. The second loop goes through the treet looking for #hashtags and increasing the total count for all the treets for a specific #hashtag (#Java for example). When the second loop finishes with an individual treet, the program moves back to the first for loop which moves to the next treet and the second for loop again looks for all the #hashtags in the second treet.

This process is followed until the first (or outer for loop) has cycled through all of the treets.

In the BlogPost there will only be one category for each blog (because that is how the blog object is constructed), so only one loop is necessary.

Hope that helps.