Detailed Description
The QMultiMap class is a convenience QMap subclass that provides multi-valued maps.
QMultiMap<Key, T> is one of Qt's generic container classes. It inherits QMap and extends it with a few convenience functions that make it more suitable than QMap for storing multi-valued maps. A multi-valued map is a map that allows multiple values with the same key; QMap normally doesn't allow that, unless you call QMap::insertMulti().
Because QMultiMap inherits QMap, all of QMap's functionality also applies to QMultiMap. For example, you can use isEmpty() to test whether the map is empty, and you can traverse a QMultiMap using QMap's iterator classes (for example, QMapIterator). But in addition, it provides an insert() function that corresponds to QMap::insertMulti(), and a replace() function that corresponds to QMap::insert(). It also provides convenient operator+() and operator+=().
Example:
QMultiMap<QString, int> map1, map2, map3;
map1.insert("plenty", 100);
map1.insert("plenty", 2000);
map2.insert("plenty", 5000);
map3 = map1 + map2;
Unlike QMap, QMultiMap provides no operator[]. Use value() or replace() if you want to access the most recently inserted item with a certain key.
If you want to retrieve all the values for a single key, you can use values(const Key &key), which returns a QList<T>:
QList<int> values = map.values("plenty");
for (int i = 0; i < values.size(); ++i)
cout << values.at(i) << endl;
The items that share the same key are available from most recently to least recently inserted.
If you prefer the STL-style iterators, you can call find() to get the iterator for the first item with a key and iterate from there:
QMultiMap<QString, int>::iterator i = map.find("plenty");
while (i != map.end() && i.key() == "plenty") {
cout << i.value() << endl;
++i;
}
QMultiMap's key and value data types must be assignable data types. This covers most data types you are likely to encounter, but the compiler won't let you, for example, store a QWidget as a value; instead, store a QWidget *. In addition, QMultiMap's key type must provide operator<(). See the QMap documentation for details.
See also QMap, QMapIterator, QMutableMapIterator, and QMultiHash.
Member Function Documentation
QMultiMap::QMultiMap ()
Constructs an empty map.
QMultiMap::QMultiMap ( const QMap<Key, T> & other )
Constructs a copy of other (which can be a QMap or a QMultiMap).
See also operator=().
QMap<Key, T>::const_iterator QMultiMap::constFind ( const Key & key, const T & value ) const
Returns an iterator pointing to the item with key key and the value value in the map.
If the map contains no such item, the function returns constEnd().
This function was introduced in Qt 4.3.
See also QMap::constFind().
QMap<Key, T>::const_iterator QMultiMap::constFind ( const Key & key ) const
This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience.
See also QMap::constFind().
bool QMultiMap::contains ( const Key & key, const T & value ) const
Returns true if the map contains an item with key key and value value; otherwise returns false.
This function was introduced in Qt 4.3.
See also QMap::contains().
bool QMultiMap::contains ( const Key & key ) const
This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience.
See also QMap::contains().
int QMultiMap::count ( const Key & key, const T & value ) const
Returns the number of items with key key and value value.
This function was introduced in Qt 4.3.
See also QMap::count().
int QMultiMap::count ( const Key & key ) const
This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience.
See also QMap::count().
int QMultiMap::count () const
This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience.
See also QMap::count().
QMap<Key, T>::iterator QMultiMap::find ( const Key & key, const T & value )
Returns an iterator pointing to the item with key key and value value in the map.
If the map contains no such item, the function returns end().
If the map contains multiple items with key key, this function returns an iterator that points to the most recently inserted value.
This function was introduced in Qt 4.3.
See also QMap::find().
QMap<Key, T>::iterator QMultiMap::find ( const Key & key )
This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience.
See also QMap::find().
QMap<Key, T>::const_iterator QMultiMap::find ( const Key & key, const T & value ) const
This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience.
Returns a const iterator pointing to the item with the given key and value in the map.
If the map contains no such item, the function returns end().
If the map contains multiple items with the specified key, this function returns a const iterator that points to the most recently inserted value.
This function was introduced in Qt 4.3.
See also QMap::find().
QMap<Key, T>::const_iterator QMultiMap::find ( const Key & key ) const
This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience.
This function was introduced in Qt 4.3.
See also QMap::find().
QMap<Key, T>::iterator QMultiMap::insert ( const Key & key, const T & value )
Inserts a new item with the key key and a value of value.
If there is already an item with the same key in the map, this function will simply create a new one. (This behavior is different from replace(), which overwrites the value of an existing item.)
See also replace().
int QMultiMap::remove ( const Key & key, const T & value )
Removes all the items that have the key key and the value value from the map. Returns the number of items removed.
This function was introduced in Qt 4.3.
See also QMap::remove().
int QMultiMap::remove ( const Key & key )
This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience.
See also QMap::remove().
QMap<Key, T>::iterator QMultiMap::replace ( const Key & key, const T & value )
Inserts a new item with the key key and a value of value.
If there is already an item with the key key, that item's value is replaced with value.
If there are multiple items with the key key, the most recently inserted item's value is replaced with value.
See also insert().
QMultiMap QMultiMap::operator+ ( const QMultiMap & other ) const
Returns a map that contains all the items in this map in addition to all the items in other. If a key is common to both maps, the resulting map will contain the key multiple times.
See also operator+=().
QMultiMap & QMultiMap::operator+= ( const QMultiMap & other )
Inserts all the items in the other map into this map and returns a reference to this map.
See also insert() and operator+().
