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why HashTable not allow null key and value
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Answer Posted / eknath
To successfully store and retrieve objects from a hashtable,
the objects used
as keys must implement the hashCode method and the equals
method.
In a nutshell, since null isn't an object, you can't call
.equals() or .hashCode() on it, so the Hashtable can't
compute a hash to use it as a key.
HashMap is newer, and has more advanced capabilities, which
are basically just an improvement on the Hashtable
functionality. As such, when HashMap was created, it was
specifically designed to handle null values as keys and
handles them as a special case.
Specifically, the use of null as a key is handled like this
when issuing a .get(key):
(key==null ? k==null : key.equals(k))
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