Qore::TreeMap Class Reference

A container for efficient path prefix lookup. More...

Public Member Methods
	constructor ()
	Creates an empty TreeMap container. More...
	copy ()
	Throws an exception; objects of this class cannot be copied. More...
	destructor ()
	Releases any resource held by the instance. More...
auto	get (string path, *reference< *string > unmatched)
	Retrieves a value from the TreeMap and optionally returns the unmatched path suffix. More...
*hash	getAll ()
	Retrieves the entire TreeMap as a hash; returns NOTHING if the TreeMap is empty. More...
nothing	put (string path, auto value)
	Puts the mapping of path to value into the container. More...
auto	take (string path)
	Removes a value from the TreeMap and returns the value removed. More...

Detailed Description

A container for efficient path prefix lookup.

The primary use of this class is in HttpServer for matching request URIs to handlers.

Example:

TreeMap tm();

tm.put("path/to/resource", handler1);
tm.put("scripts", handler2);
tm.put("scripts/special", handler3);

tm.get("path/to/resource/x");           # returns handler1
tm.get("path/to/resource?arg=1");       # returns handler1
tm.get("path/to/res");                  # returns NOTHING
tm.get("path/to/resourcex");            # returns NOTHING
tm.get("path");                         # returns NOTHING

tm.get("scripts/special/main.js");      # returns handler3
tm.get("scripts/normal/main.js");       # returns handler2

Member Function Documentation

constructor()

Qore::TreeMap::constructor

(

)

Creates an empty TreeMap container.

Creates an empty TreeMap container.

copy()

Qore::TreeMap::copy

(

)

Throws an exception; objects of this class cannot be copied.

Exceptions

TREEMAP-COPY-ERROR

objects of this class cannot be copied

destructor()

Qore::TreeMap::destructor

(

)

Releases any resource held by the instance.

Releases any resource held by the instance.

get()

auto Qore::TreeMap::get	(	string	path,
		*reference< *string >	unmatched
	)

Retrieves a value from the TreeMap and optionally returns the unmatched path suffix.

Code Flags:

RET_VALUE_ONLY

Example:

TreeMap tm();
tm.put("abc", "1");
tm.put("def/g/hi", "5");

auto v;
*string unmatched;
# returns "1"
v = tm.get("abc");
# returns "1" and unmatched is ""
v = tm.get("abc", \unmatched);
# returns "1" and unmatched is "cde/"
v = tm.get("abc/cde/", \unmatched);
*hash h;
v = tm.get("def/g/hi/five", \h.unmatched);  # returns "5" and h.unmatched is "five"

Looks for an entry whose key is the longest prefix of path.

Parameters

path	the path to lookup
unmatched	an optional reference to the path suffix; if path is not found, then NOTHING is assigned to the reference

Returns

the value pointed to by the longest prefix of path or NOTHING if no such mapping exists

Since

Qore 0.8.13

getAll()

*hash Qore::TreeMap::getAll

(

)

Retrieves the entire TreeMap as a hash; returns NOTHING if the TreeMap is empty.

Code Flags:

CONSTANT

Returns

the entire TreeMap as a hash; returns NOTHING if the TreeMap is empty

put()

nothing Qore::TreeMap::put	(	string	path,
		auto	value
	)

Puts the mapping of path to value into the container.

Parameters

path	the path to which value will be mapped
value	the value to put into the TreeMap

See also

TreeMap::remove()

take()

auto Qore::TreeMap::take

(

string

path

)

Removes a value from the TreeMap and returns the value removed.

path must be an exact match

Parameters

path	the path to remove

Returns

the value removed from the TreeMap or NOTHING if no exact match was found

See also

TreeMap::put()