Constructors, Hash Tables, & Linked Lists

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Hi Everyone. I'm in the middle coding something and I hit a wall and don't know how to get past it. What I'm trying to do is the following:

I have a constructor of name "WordDetails" and I have several methods in it like "AddPage", "AddName", and "PrintName". I made a linked list of type "WordDetails" and created 1 link in the list. I added the 1st element in the list into a hash table using the string "One" as the key and the 0th element in the list as the value being added to the table. I need to know how access it so I can run any method from it from the hash table. Here is my code:

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//[I]The Constructor[/I]
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import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.io.*;
public class WordDetails
{
    public String WordName;
    public LinkedList <Integer>PageNumbers = new LinkedList<Integer>();
 
    public WordDetails()
    {
    }
 
    //Checks and eliminates same numbers in the list
    public void CheckNumbers()
    {
        if(PageNumbers.size() > 1)
        {
            for(int i = 0; i < (PageNumbers.size() - 1); i++)
            {
                if(PageNumbers.get(i) == PageNumbers.get(i+1))
                {
                    PageNumbers.remove(i+1);
                }
            }
        }
    }
 
    public void AddPage(int x)
    {
        PageNumbers.add(x);
        CheckNumbers();
    }
 
    public void AddName(String Word)
    {
        WordName = Word;
    }
 
    public void PrintName()
    {
        System.out.println(WordName);
    }
}
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//[I]The Main Class[/I]
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import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
public class IndexForABook
{
    public static void main (String args[]) throws Exception
    {
        Hashtable WordList = new Hashtable();
        LinkedList <WordDetails>TempList = new LinkedList<WordDetails>();
        TempList.add(new WordDetails());
        WordList.put("One",TempList.get(0));
        //[B][I]Here is where I would need to know how to access methods in the instance of the[/I][/B]
        //[B][I] constructor I added to the hash table[/I][/B]
}
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I am guessing you probably meant to say 'class' rather than constructor. That aside, to retrieve your object from the Map and call its function use the get method defined in HashTable

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((WordDetails)WordList.get("One")).methodToCallHere();

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A few notes about this code a) you have to make the cast because there are no generics when you define the HashTable and b) you should check for a null pointer in case the call to WordList.get returns null.

I would also make the map type safe if I was you so you wont need to do casts.

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final Map<String, WordDetails> wordList = new HashMap<String, WordDetails>();
 
wordList.get("One").methodToCallHere(); // You can do this without the cast since we know that get("One") will return an object of type WordDetails.

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