The
Dictionary
class is the abstract parent of any
class, such as
Hashtable
, which maps keys to values.
The
Dictionary
class is the abstract parent of any
class, such as
Hashtable
, which maps keys to values.
Every key and every value is an object. In any one
Dictionary
object, every key is associated with at most one value. Given a
Dictionary and a key, the associated element can be looked up.
Any non-
null
object can be used as a key and as a value.
As a rule, the equals
method should be used by
implementations of this class to decide if two keys are the same.
NOTE: This class is obsolete. New implementations should
implement the Map interface, rather than extending this class.