Hashmap question

[panos100m]

Hi

these are the conents of my hashmap printing out the entrySet.


entrySet1: OrderDate=10/30/2007,
entrySet2: Level_0={Item_0 ={ItemTotal= 3.99, ItemName=test® in, ShipDate=10/31/2007, ItemPrice= 3.99, ItemNumber=8504 , ItemQuantity=1} , ShipMethodID=75 , ItemCount=1, Items_StatusID= 2, Items_Status=Sh ipped, ShipMethod=, Tracking_Tracki ngNumber=, ShippingLevelID =1}
entrySet3: Outcome={Return Code=0, ReturnMessage}


entryset3 is another hashmap and i retieve its contents by doing

Map outcome= (Map) muhamainhashmap name.get("Outco me");


String returncode = (String) outcome.get("Re turnCode");
String resulttext = (String) outcome.get("Re turnText");


However entryset 2 is a bit tricky as it is a hashmap and it contains another hashmap..so it may contain multiple levels (e.g leavel0 , level1) and multiple items (another hasmap inside each level)
So can't use String returncode =(String) anothermap.get( "Level");
because i dont know the level name (e.g 1,2,3)...

How can i get the contents of each level and contents of each item in that level??

Thanks

[BigDaddyLH]

If the maps are nested to an arbitrary depth, I would use recursion.

[JosAH]

I find all these simple values in those Maps a bit suspicious: can't you build a
class for those attributes? It looks a bit Fortranesque to me now ...

kind regards,

Jos

[BigDaddyLH]

I find all these simple values in those Maps a bit suspicious: can't you build a
class for those attributes? It looks a bit Fortranesque to me now ...

kind regards,

Jos

I suspect that when switches to Java from a scripting language, everything still looks like a Map ;-)

[JosAH]

I suspect that when switches to Java from a scripting language, everything still looks like a Map ;-)

Ah, ok, capiche; now just lets hope that no "dynamic variables" such as var1, var2 ...
come in again. ;-)

kind regards,

Jos