Maybe not the best Title, please feel free to edit it.
This is the code I have..
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.HashMap;
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {
final Foo foo = new Foo();
final Foo bar = new Foo();
System.out.println("foo equals foo: " + foo.equals(foo));
System.out.println("foo equals bar: " + foo.equals(bar));
System.out.println("foo hashcode: " + foo.hashCode());
System.out.println("bar hashcode: " + bar.hashCode());
final Map<Foo, Integer> foos = new HashMap<Foo, Integer>();
foos.put(foo, -99);
System.out.println("foos.getfoo: " + foos.get(foo));
System.out.println("foos.getbar: " + foos.get(bar));
}
}
class Foo {
@Override
public boolean equals(Object o) {
return false;
}
@Override
public int hashCode() {
return -1;
}
}
So before reading further can you guess what the output for the following 2 statement will be?
System.out.println("foos.getfoo: " + foos.get(foo));
System.out.println("foos.getbar: " + foos.get(bar));
I would expect to see:
null
null
since even though the hashCodes do match, equals for any instance of Foo will always return false, so using an instance of Foo as a key in a Map should not be useful at all..
However the output is:
:~ $ javac App.java
:~ $ java App
foo equals foo: false
foo equals bar: false
foo hashcode: -1
bar hashcode: -1
foos.getfoo: -99
foos.getbar: null
What am I missing? How is -99 retrieved when I use an object that has an hashcode -1 and is NOT equal to itself, but then get null later with a same type of instance that is also NOT equal to what I have in the Map and also has hashcode -1?