// containersindepth/TypesForSets.java // Methods necessary to put your own type in a Set. import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException; import java.util.*; class SetType { int i; public SetType(int n) { i = n; } @Override public boolean equals(Object o) { return o instanceof SetType && (i == ((SetType)o).i); } @Override public String toString() { return Integer.toString(i); } } class HashType extends SetType { public HashType(int n) { super(n); } @Override public int hashCode() { return i; } } class TreeType extends SetType implements Comparable { public TreeType(int n) { super(n); } @Override public int compareTo(TreeType arg) { return (arg.i < i ? -1 : (arg.i == i ? 0 : 1)); } } public class TypesForSets { static Set fill(Set set, Class type) { try { for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) set.add( type.getConstructor(int.class).newInstance(i)); } catch(NoSuchMethodException | SecurityException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | IllegalArgumentException | InvocationTargetException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } return set; } static void test(Set set, Class type) { fill(set, type); fill(set, type); // Try to add duplicates fill(set, type); System.out.println(set); } public static void main(String[] args) { test(new HashSet<>(), HashType.class); test(new LinkedHashSet<>(), HashType.class); test(new TreeSet<>(), TreeType.class); // Things that don't work: test(new HashSet<>(), SetType.class); test(new HashSet<>(), TreeType.class); test(new LinkedHashSet<>(), SetType.class); test(new LinkedHashSet<>(), TreeType.class); try { test(new TreeSet<>(), SetType.class); } catch(Exception e) { System.out.println("Expected: " + e.getMessage()); } try { test(new TreeSet<>(), HashType.class); } catch(Exception e) { System.out.println("Expected: " + e.getMessage()); } } } /* Output: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] [9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0] [9, 5, 3, 1, 8, 7, 1, 3, 5, 0, 2, 0, 7, 4, 6, 8, 3, 7, 5, 4, 2, 9, 6, 0, 9, 1, 8, 6, 2, 4] [0, 2, 5, 1, 2, 4, 7, 4, 5, 6, 3, 1, 4, 1, 6, 3, 8, 9, 0, 9, 6, 3, 5, 0, 8, 7, 9, 7, 8, 2] [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] Expected: SetType cannot be cast to java.lang.Comparable Expected: HashType cannot be cast to java.lang.Comparable */