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TreeSet.javaAPI DocJava SE 5 API20353Fri Aug 26 14:57:24 BST 2005java.util

TreeSet

public class TreeSet extends AbstractSet implements Cloneable, SortedSet, Serializable
This class implements the Set interface, backed by a TreeMap instance. This class guarantees that the sorted set will be in ascending element order, sorted according to the natural order of the elements (see Comparable), or by the comparator provided at set creation time, depending on which constructor is used.

This implementation provides guaranteed log(n) time cost for the basic operations (add, remove and contains).

Note that the ordering maintained by a set (whether or not an explicit comparator is provided) must be consistent with equals if it is to correctly implement the Set interface. (See Comparable or Comparator for a precise definition of consistent with equals.) This is so because the Set interface is defined in terms of the equals operation, but a TreeSet instance performs all key comparisons using its compareTo (or compare) method, so two keys that are deemed equal by this method are, from the standpoint of the set, equal. The behavior of a set is well-defined even if its ordering is inconsistent with equals; it just fails to obey the general contract of the Set interface.

Note that this implementation is not synchronized. If multiple threads access a set concurrently, and at least one of the threads modifies the set, it must be synchronized externally. This is typically accomplished by synchronizing on some object that naturally encapsulates the set. If no such object exists, the set should be "wrapped" using the Collections.synchronizedSet method. This is best done at creation time, to prevent accidental unsynchronized access to the set:

SortedSet s = Collections.synchronizedSortedSet(new TreeSet(...));

The Iterators returned by this class's iterator method are fail-fast: if the set is modified at any time after the iterator is created, in any way except through the iterator's own remove method, the iterator will throw a ConcurrentModificationException. Thus, in the face of concurrent modification, the iterator fails quickly and cleanly, rather than risking arbitrary, non-deterministic behavior at an undetermined time in the future.

Note that the fail-fast behavior of an iterator cannot be guaranteed as it is, generally speaking, impossible to make any hard guarantees in the presence of unsynchronized concurrent modification. Fail-fast iterators throw ConcurrentModificationException on a best-effort basis. Therefore, it would be wrong to write a program that depended on this exception for its correctness: the fail-fast behavior of iterators should be used only to detect bugs.

This class is a member of the Java Collections Framework.

author
Josh Bloch
version
1.32, 12/19/03
see
Collection
see
Set
see
HashSet
see
Comparable
see
Comparator
see
Collections#synchronizedSortedSet(SortedSet)
see
TreeMap
since
1.2

Fields Summary
private transient SortedMap
m
private transient Set
keySet
private static final Object
PRESENT
private static final long
serialVersionUID
Constructors Summary
private TreeSet(SortedMap m)
Constructs a set backed by the specified sorted map.


                  
       
        this.m = m;
        keySet = m.keySet();
    
public TreeSet()
Constructs a new, empty set, sorted according to the elements' natural order. All elements inserted into the set must implement the Comparable interface. Furthermore, all such elements must be mutually comparable: e1.compareTo(e2) must not throw a ClassCastException for any elements e1 and e2 in the set. If the user attempts to add an element to the set that violates this constraint (for example, the user attempts to add a string element to a set whose elements are integers), the add(Object) call will throw a ClassCastException.

see
Comparable

	this(new TreeMap<E,Object>());
    
public TreeSet(Comparator c)
Constructs a new, empty set, sorted according to the specified comparator. All elements inserted into the set must be mutually comparable by the specified comparator: comparator.compare(e1, e2) must not throw a ClassCastException for any elements e1 and e2 in the set. If the user attempts to add an element to the set that violates this constraint, the add(Object) call will throw a ClassCastException.

param
c the comparator that will be used to sort this set. A null value indicates that the elements' natural ordering should be used.

	this(new TreeMap<E,Object>(c));
    
public TreeSet(Collection c)
Constructs a new set containing the elements in the specified collection, sorted according to the elements' natural order. All keys inserted into the set must implement the Comparable interface. Furthermore, all such keys must be mutually comparable: k1.compareTo(k2) must not throw a ClassCastException for any elements k1 and k2 in the set.

param
c The elements that will comprise the new set.
throws
ClassCastException if the keys in the specified collection are not comparable, or are not mutually comparable.
throws
NullPointerException if the specified collection is null.

        this();
        addAll(c);
    
public TreeSet(SortedSet s)
Constructs a new set containing the same elements as the specified sorted set, sorted according to the same ordering.

param
s sorted set whose elements will comprise the new set.
throws
NullPointerException if the specified sorted set is null.

        this(s.comparator());
	addAll(s);
    
Methods Summary
public booleanadd(E o)
Adds the specified element to this set if it is not already present.

param
o element to be added to this set.
return
true if the set did not already contain the specified element.
throws
ClassCastException if the specified object cannot be compared with the elements currently in the set.

	return m.put(o, PRESENT)==null;
    
public booleanaddAll(java.util.Collection c)
Adds all of the elements in the specified collection to this set.

param
c elements to be added
return
true if this set changed as a result of the call.
throws
ClassCastException if the elements provided cannot be compared with the elements currently in the set.
throws
NullPointerException of the specified collection is null.

        // Use linear-time version if applicable
        if (m.size()==0 && c.size() > 0 &&
	    // FIXME(VFORCE) Work-around for bug in compiler
	    c instanceof SortedSet &&
            m instanceof TreeMap) {
            SortedSet<Map.Entry<E, Object>> set = (SortedSet<Map.Entry<E, Object>>) (SortedSet) c;
            TreeMap<E,Object> map = (TreeMap<E, Object>) m;
            Comparator<? super E> cc = (Comparator<E>) set.comparator();
            Comparator<? super E> mc = map.comparator();
            if (cc==mc || (cc != null && cc.equals(mc))) {
                map.addAllForTreeSet(set, PRESENT);
                return true;
            }
        }
        return super.addAll(c);
    
public voidclear()
Removes all of the elements from this set.

	m.clear();
    
public java.lang.Objectclone()
Returns a shallow copy of this TreeSet instance. (The elements themselves are not cloned.)

return
a shallow copy of this set.

        TreeSet<E> clone = null;
	try {
	    clone = (TreeSet<E>) super.clone();
	} catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {
	    throw new InternalError();
	}

        clone.m = new TreeMap<E,Object>(m);
        clone.keySet = clone.m.keySet();

        return clone;
    
public java.util.Comparatorcomparator()
Returns the comparator used to order this sorted set, or null if this tree set uses its elements natural ordering.

return
the comparator used to order this sorted set, or null if this tree set uses its elements natural ordering.

        return m.comparator();
    
public booleancontains(java.lang.Object o)
Returns true if this set contains the specified element.

param
o the object to be checked for containment in this set.
return
true if this set contains the specified element.
throws
ClassCastException if the specified object cannot be compared with the elements currently in the set.

	return m.containsKey(o);
    
public Efirst()
Returns the first (lowest) element currently in this sorted set.

return
the first (lowest) element currently in this sorted set.
throws
NoSuchElementException sorted set is empty.

        return m.firstKey();
    
public java.util.SortedSetheadSet(E toElement)
Returns a view of the portion of this set whose elements are strictly less than toElement. The returned sorted set is backed by this set, so changes in the returned sorted set are reflected in this set, and vice-versa. The returned sorted set supports all optional set operations.

The sorted set returned by this method will throw an IllegalArgumentException if the user attempts to insert an element greater than or equal to toElement.

Note: this method always returns a view that does not contain its (high) endpoint. If you need a view that does contain this endpoint, and the element type allows for calculation of the successor of a specified value, merely request a headSet bounded by successor(highEndpoint). For example, suppose that s is a sorted set of strings. The following idiom obtains a view containing all of the strings in s that are less than or equal to high:

 SortedSet head = s.headSet(high+"\0");

param
toElement high endpoint (exclusive) of the headSet.
return
a view of the portion of this set whose elements are strictly less than toElement.
throws
ClassCastException if toElement is not compatible with this set's comparator (or, if the set has no comparator, if toElement does not implement Comparable).
throws
IllegalArgumentException if this set is itself a subSet, headSet, or tailSet, and toElement is not within the specified range of the subSet, headSet, or tailSet.
throws
NullPointerException if toElement is null and this set uses natural ordering, or its comparator does not tolerate null elements.

	return new TreeSet<E>(m.headMap(toElement));
    
public booleanisEmpty()
Returns true if this set contains no elements.

return
true if this set contains no elements.

	return m.isEmpty();
    
public java.util.Iteratoriterator()
Returns an iterator over the elements in this set. The elements are returned in ascending order.

return
an iterator over the elements in this set.

	return keySet.iterator();
    
public Elast()
Returns the last (highest) element currently in this sorted set.

return
the last (highest) element currently in this sorted set.
throws
NoSuchElementException sorted set is empty.

        return m.lastKey();
    
private voidreadObject(java.io.ObjectInputStream s)
Reconstitute the TreeSet instance from a stream (that is, deserialize it).

	// Read in any hidden stuff
	s.defaultReadObject();

        // Read in Comparator
        Comparator<E> c = (Comparator<E>) s.readObject();

        // Create backing TreeMap and keySet view
	TreeMap<E,Object> tm;
	if (c==null)
	    tm = new TreeMap<E,Object>();
	else
	    tm = new TreeMap<E,Object>(c);
	m = tm;
        keySet = m.keySet();

        // Read in size
        int size = s.readInt();

        tm.readTreeSet(size, s, PRESENT);
    
public booleanremove(java.lang.Object o)
Removes the specified element from this set if it is present.

param
o object to be removed from this set, if present.
return
true if the set contained the specified element.
throws
ClassCastException if the specified object cannot be compared with the elements currently in the set.

	return m.remove(o)==PRESENT;
    
public intsize()
Returns the number of elements in this set (its cardinality).

return
the number of elements in this set (its cardinality).

	return m.size();
    
public java.util.SortedSetsubSet(E fromElement, E toElement)
Returns a view of the portion of this set whose elements range from fromElement, inclusive, to toElement, exclusive. (If fromElement and toElement are equal, the returned sorted set is empty.) The returned sorted set is backed by this set, so changes in the returned sorted set are reflected in this set, and vice-versa. The returned sorted set supports all optional Set operations.

The sorted set returned by this method will throw an IllegalArgumentException if the user attempts to insert an element outside the specified range.

Note: this method always returns a half-open range (which includes its low endpoint but not its high endpoint). If you need a closed range (which includes both endpoints), and the element type allows for calculation of the successor of a specified value, merely request the subrange from lowEndpoint to successor(highEndpoint). For example, suppose that s is a sorted set of strings. The following idiom obtains a view containing all of the strings in s from low to high, inclusive:

SortedSet sub = s.subSet(low, high+"\0");
A similar technique can be used to generate an open range (which contains neither endpoint). The following idiom obtains a view containing all of the strings in s from low to high, exclusive:
SortedSet sub = s.subSet(low+"\0", high);

param
fromElement low endpoint (inclusive) of the subSet.
param
toElement high endpoint (exclusive) of the subSet.
return
a view of the portion of this set whose elements range from fromElement, inclusive, to toElement, exclusive.
throws
ClassCastException if fromElement and toElement cannot be compared to one another using this set's comparator (or, if the set has no comparator, using natural ordering).
throws
IllegalArgumentException if fromElement is greater than toElement.
throws
NullPointerException if fromElement or toElement is null and this set uses natural order, or its comparator does not tolerate null elements.

	return new TreeSet<E>(m.subMap(fromElement, toElement));
    
public java.util.SortedSettailSet(E fromElement)
Returns a view of the portion of this set whose elements are greater than or equal to fromElement. The returned sorted set is backed by this set, so changes in the returned sorted set are reflected in this set, and vice-versa. The returned sorted set supports all optional set operations.

The sorted set returned by this method will throw an IllegalArgumentException if the user attempts to insert an element less than fromElement. Note: this method always returns a view that contains its (low) endpoint. If you need a view that does not contain this endpoint, and the element type allows for calculation of the successor of a specified value, merely request a tailSet bounded by successor(lowEndpoint). For example, suppose that s is a sorted set of strings. The following idiom obtains a view containing all of the strings in s that are strictly greater than low:

SortedSet tail = s.tailSet(low+"\0");

param
fromElement low endpoint (inclusive) of the tailSet.
return
a view of the portion of this set whose elements are greater than or equal to fromElement.
throws
ClassCastException if fromElement is not compatible with this set's comparator (or, if the set has no comparator, if fromElement does not implement Comparable).
throws
IllegalArgumentException if this set is itself a subSet, headSet, or tailSet, and fromElement is not within the specified range of the subSet, headSet, or tailSet.
throws
NullPointerException if fromElement is null and this set uses natural ordering, or its comparator does not tolerate null elements.

	return new TreeSet<E>(m.tailMap(fromElement));
    
private voidwriteObject(java.io.ObjectOutputStream s)
Save the state of the TreeSet instance to a stream (that is, serialize it).

serialData
Emits the comparator used to order this set, or null if it obeys its elements' natural ordering (Object), followed by the size of the set (the number of elements it contains) (int), followed by all of its elements (each an Object) in order (as determined by the set's Comparator, or by the elements' natural ordering if the set has no Comparator).

	// Write out any hidden stuff
	s.defaultWriteObject();

        // Write out Comparator
        s.writeObject(m.comparator());

        // Write out size
        s.writeInt(m.size());

	// Write out all elements in the proper order.
	for (Iterator i=m.keySet().iterator(); i.hasNext(); )
            s.writeObject(i.next());