最近我读了这篇文章 开发人员工作文件。

该文档是关于有效和正确地定义hashCode()和equals(),但我无法弄清楚为什么我们需要覆盖这两个方法。

我如何决定有效地实现这些方法?


当前回答

HashMap和HashSet等集合使用对象的hashcode值来确定该对象应该如何存储在集合中,然后再次使用hashcode来定位该对象 在它的收藏中。

哈希检索是一个两步过程:

找到正确的桶(使用hashCode()) 在桶中搜索正确的元素(使用equals())

下面是一个关于为什么我们应该重写equals()和hashcode()的小例子。

考虑一个Employee类,它有两个字段:年龄和名字。

public class Employee {

    String name;
    int age;

    public Employee(String name, int age) {
        this.name = name;
        this.age = age;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public int getAge() {
        return age;
    }

    public void setAge(int age) {
        this.age = age;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        if (obj == this)
            return true;
        if (!(obj instanceof Employee))
            return false;
        Employee employee = (Employee) obj;
        return employee.getAge() == this.getAge()
                && employee.getName() == this.getName();
    }

    // commented    
    /*  @Override
        public int hashCode() {
            int result=17;
            result=31*result+age;
            result=31*result+(name!=null ? name.hashCode():0);
            return result;
        }
     */
}

现在创建一个类,将Employee对象插入到HashSet中并测试该对象是否存在。

public class ClientTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Employee employee = new Employee("rajeev", 24);
        Employee employee1 = new Employee("rajeev", 25);
        Employee employee2 = new Employee("rajeev", 24);

        HashSet<Employee> employees = new HashSet<Employee>();
        employees.add(employee);
        System.out.println(employees.contains(employee2));
        System.out.println("employee.hashCode():  " + employee.hashCode()
        + "  employee2.hashCode():" + employee2.hashCode());
    }
}

它将打印以下内容:

false
employee.hashCode():  321755204  employee2.hashCode():375890482

现在uncomment hashcode()方法,执行相同的方法,输出将是:

true
employee.hashCode():  -938387308  employee2.hashCode():-938387308

Now can you see why if two objects are considered equal, their hashcodes must also be equal? Otherwise, you'd never be able to find the object since the default hashcode method in class Object virtually always comes up with a unique number for each object, even if the equals() method is overridden in such a way that two or more objects are considered equal. It doesn't matter how equal the objects are if their hashcodes don't reflect that. So one more time: If two objects are equal, their hashcodes must be equal as well.

其他回答

The methods equals and hashcode are defined in the object class. By default if the equals method returns true, then the system will go further and check the value of the hash code. If the hash code of the 2 objects is also same only then the objects will be considered as same. So if you override only equals method, then even though the overridden equals method indicates 2 objects to be equal , the system defined hashcode may not indicate that the 2 objects are equal. So we need to override hash code as well.

在下面的例子中,如果您注释掉Person类中equals或hashcode的覆盖,此代码将无法查找Tom的订单。使用哈希码的默认实现可能会导致哈希表查找失败。

下面是一个简化的代码,它按Person提取人们的订单。Person被用作哈希表中的键。

public class Person {
    String name;
    int age;
    String socialSecurityNumber;

    public Person(String name, int age, String socialSecurityNumber) {
        this.name = name;
        this.age = age;
        this.socialSecurityNumber = socialSecurityNumber;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object p) {
        //Person is same if social security number is same

        if ((p instanceof Person) && this.socialSecurityNumber.equals(((Person) p).socialSecurityNumber)) {
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }

    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {        //I am using a hashing function in String.java instead of writing my own.
        return socialSecurityNumber.hashCode();
    }
}


public class Order {
    String[]  items;

    public void insertOrder(String[]  items)
    {
        this.items=items;
    }

}



import java.util.Hashtable;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

       Person p1=new Person("Tom",32,"548-56-4412");
        Person p2=new Person("Jerry",60,"456-74-4125");
        Person p3=new Person("Sherry",38,"418-55-1235");

        Order order1=new Order();
        order1.insertOrder(new String[]{"mouse","car charger"});

        Order order2=new Order();
        order2.insertOrder(new String[]{"Multi vitamin"});

        Order order3=new Order();
        order3.insertOrder(new String[]{"handbag", "iPod"});

        Hashtable<Person,Order> hashtable=new Hashtable<Person,Order>();
        hashtable.put(p1,order1);
        hashtable.put(p2,order2);
        hashtable.put(p3,order3);

       //The line below will fail if Person class does not override hashCode()
       Order tomOrder= hashtable.get(new Person("Tom", 32, "548-56-4412"));
        for(String item:tomOrder.items)
        {
            System.out.println(item);
        }
    }
}

你必须重写hashCode()在每个 重写equals()的类。失败 这样做会导致违反 总合同 Object.hashCode(),它将防止 你的类不能正常运行 结合所有基于哈希的 集合,包括HashMap, HashSet和Hashtable。 摘自Joshua Bloch的《Effective Java》

通过一致地定义equals()和hashCode(),可以提高类作为基于散列的集合中的键的可用性。正如hashCode的API文档所解释的那样:“支持此方法是为了受益于诸如java.util.Hashtable所提供的哈希表。”

关于如何有效地实现这些方法的问题,最好的答案是建议你阅读《Effective Java》的第3章。

让我用非常简单的话来解释这个概念。

首先,从更广泛的角度来看,我们有集合,而hashmap是集合中的数据结构之一。

要理解为什么我们必须重写equals和hashcode方法,如果需要的话,首先要理解什么是hashmap以及它的功能。

hashmap是一种以数组方式存储键值对数据的数据结构。假设是a[],其中'a'中的每个元素都是一个键值对。

此外,上述数组中的每个索引都可以是链表,因此在一个索引上有多个值。

为什么要使用hashmap呢?

如果我们必须在一个大数组中搜索,那么搜索每个数组,如果它们不是有效的,那么哈希技术告诉我们,让我们用一些逻辑预处理数组,并根据该逻辑对元素进行分组,即哈希

例如:我们有数组1、2、3、4、5、6、7、8、9、10、11,我们应用哈希函数mod 10,所以1、11将被分组在一起。因此,如果我们必须在前一个数组中搜索11,那么我们必须迭代整个数组,但当我们对它进行分组时,我们限制了迭代的范围,从而提高了速度。为了简单起见,用于存储所有上述信息的数据结构可以看作是一个2d数组

现在除了上面的hashmap还告诉它不会在其中添加任何duplicate。这就是为什么我们要重写等号和hashcode的主要原因

因此,当我们说要解释hashmap的内部工作时,我们需要找到hashmap有什么方法,以及它如何遵循上面我解释过的规则

所以hashmap有一个方法叫as put(K,V),根据hashmap,它应该遵循上面的规则,有效地分配数组,不添加任何重复

put所做的是首先为给定的键生成hashcode来决定值应该放在哪个索引中。如果那个下标处什么都没有,那么新值就会被加到那里,如果那里已经有了,那么新值就会被加到链表末尾那个下标处。但是请记住,不应该根据期望的hashmap行为添加重复项。假设你有两个整数对象aa=11 bb=11。

由于每个对象都派生自对象类,比较两个对象的默认实现是比较引用,而不是对象内部的值。因此,在上述情况下,尽管语义上相同,但两个对象都将无法通过相等性测试,并且有可能存在两个具有相同hashcode和相同值的对象,从而创建重复的对象。如果我们重写,就可以避免添加重复项。 您也可以参考详细工作

import java.util.HashMap;


public class Employee {
    String name;
    String mobile;

    public Employee(String name,String mobile) {
        this.name = name;
        this.mobile = mobile;
    }
    
    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        System.out.println("calling hascode method of Employee");
        String str = this.name;
        int sum = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
            sum = sum + str.charAt(i);
        }
        return sum;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        System.out.println("calling equals method of Employee");
        Employee emp = (Employee) obj;
        if (this.mobile.equalsIgnoreCase(emp.mobile)) {
            System.out.println("returning true");
            return true;
        } else {
            System.out.println("returning false");
            return false;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        Employee emp = new Employee("abc", "hhh");
        Employee emp2 = new Employee("abc", "hhh");
        HashMap<Employee, Employee> h = new HashMap<>();
        //for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
            h.put(emp, emp);
            h.put(emp2, emp2);
        //}
        
        System.out.println("----------------");
        System.out.println("size of hashmap: "+h.size());
    }
}

它在使用值对象时很有用。以下摘自Portland Pattern Repository:

Examples of value objects are things like numbers, dates, monies and strings. Usually, they are small objects which are used quite widely. Their identity is based on their state rather than on their object identity. This way, you can have multiple copies of the same conceptual value object. So I can have multiple copies of an object that represents the date 16 Jan 1998. Any of these copies will be equal to each other. For a small object such as this, it is often easier to create new ones and move them around rather than rely on a single object to represent the date. A value object should always override .equals() in Java (or = in Smalltalk). (Remember to override .hashCode() as well.)