problems with hashtable(how to get keys knowing values)

Hi,
I have a problem and any help would be greatly appreciated!

I have hashtable like that:
Hashtable category = new Hashtable();

category.put("XREF_STATE_CODE", "Global Setup");
category.put("XREF_STATE_COUNTRY", "Global Setup");
category.put("PROPERTY_CONTACT", "Property Setup");
category.put("PROPERTY_DESC", "Property Setup");
category.put("RENTABLE_GROUP", "Property Setup");
category.put("RENTABLE_DAY", "Property Setup");
category.put("HMA_STATEMENT", "Invoicing");
category.put("RA_TRANSACTION", "Invoicing");
category.put("RA_INVOICE", "Invoicing");
category.put("INVOICE_COMMENT", "Invoicing");

where key is table_name and value is a category which each table_name related
to. Knowing table_name I can easily to get value(category). The problem is
how knowing category(value of hashtable) to get table_names (keys) that related
to this category.
Thanks in advance.
Tanya.

Tanya <tgrishnin@reserveamerica.com> wrote in message
news:393ebd72$1@news.devx.com...
>
> Hi,
> I have a problem and any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> I have hashtable like that:
> Hashtable category = new Hashtable();
>
> category.put("XREF_STATE_CODE", "Global Setup");
> category.put("XREF_STATE_COUNTRY", "Global Setup");
> category.put("PROPERTY_CONTACT", "Property Setup");
> category.put("PROPERTY_DESC", "Property Setup");
> category.put("RENTABLE_GROUP", "Property Setup");
> category.put("RENTABLE_DAY", "Property Setup");
> category.put("HMA_STATEMENT", "Invoicing");
> category.put("RA_TRANSACTION", "Invoicing");
> category.put("RA_INVOICE", "Invoicing");
> category.put("INVOICE_COMMENT", "Invoicing");
>
> where key is table_name and value is a category which each table_name
related
> to. Knowing table_name I can easily to get value(category). The problem is
> how knowing category(value of hashtable) to get table_names (keys) that
related
> to this category.
> Thanks in advance.
> Tanya.
>
>
Hashtable is designed to map keys to values, as its documentation says. You
could design your own class that stored pairs of strings (another class or a
string array) in a Vector and provided methods to extract by the first or
second string, or you could put your strings in a database and use SQL to do
what you want.

"Paul Clapham" <pclapham@core-mark.com> wrote:
>
>Tanya <tgrishnin@reserveamerica.com> wrote in message
>news:393ebd72$1@news.devx.com...
>>
>> Hi,
>> I have a problem and any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> I have hashtable like that:
>> Hashtable category = new Hashtable();
>>
>> category.put("XREF_STATE_CODE", "Global Setup");
>> category.put("XREF_STATE_COUNTRY", "Global Setup");
>> category.put("PROPERTY_CONTACT", "Property Setup");
>> category.put("PROPERTY_DESC", "Property Setup");
>> category.put("RENTABLE_GROUP", "Property Setup");
>> category.put("RENTABLE_DAY", "Property Setup");
>> category.put("HMA_STATEMENT", "Invoicing");
>> category.put("RA_TRANSACTION", "Invoicing");
>> category.put("RA_INVOICE", "Invoicing");
>> category.put("INVOICE_COMMENT", "Invoicing");
>>
>> where key is table_name and value is a category which each table_name
>related
>> to. Knowing table_name I can easily to get value(category). The problem
is
>> how knowing category(value of hashtable) to get table_names (keys) that
>related
>> to this category.
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Tanya.
>>
>>
>Hashtable is designed to map keys to values, as its documentation says.
You
>could design your own class that stored pairs of strings (another class
or a
>string array) in a Vector and provided methods to extract by the first or
>second string, or you could put your strings in a database and use SQL to
do
>what you want.
>
>
>
Thanks Paul!
I just needed that hashtable in other methods of my class and wanted to use
it for this particular task without creating additional object. Here is my
solution:

if (Category != null) { //Category is a variable that's passed by
/**
* Gets keys (table_names) and puts it into the vector v depending on category
*/
Enumeration en = category.keys();
while (en.hasMoreElements()) {
String s = (String)en.nextElement();
String r = (String)category.get(s);
if (r.equals(Category))
{ v.addElement(s); }

}
if (v.size() != 0) {
lsSql.append(" and xt.table_name = ?");

try {
loCon = coPool.getConnection();
ps = loCon.prepareStatement(lsSql.toString());
for (int j = 0; j < v.size(); j++) {
ps.setString(1, (String)v.elementAt(j));
ResultSet rs1 = ps.executeQuery();

while (rs1.next()) {
................................................
..................................... and so on.....