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Building a category mapping

You are managing inventory for your electronics store, and you need to standardize the electronics categories in your inventory. Create a category mapping to help keep track of the products in your store.

This exercise is part of the course

Cleaning Data in Java

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Exercise instructions

  • Create an enum called ProductCategory.
  • Look up an unknown category called "Mystery category".
  • Create an unmodifiable map using categoryMap.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.EnumMap;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

public class ElectronicsCategoryExample {
	// Create an enum called ProductCategory
    public ____ ____ {
        ELECTRONICS,
        HOME_APPLIANCES,
        UNCATEGORIZED;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
    	Map categoryMap = new HashMap<>();
        categoryMap.put("Home Appliances", ProductCategory.HOME_APPLIANCES);
        categoryMap.put("home appliances", ProductCategory.HOME_APPLIANCES);
        categoryMap.put("HomeAppliances", ProductCategory.HOME_APPLIANCES);
        categoryMap.put("Electronics", ProductCategory.ELECTRONICS);
        categoryMap.put("electronics", ProductCategory.ELECTRONICS);
        categoryMap.put("Electronic", ProductCategory.ELECTRONICS);
        
        System.out.println("Electronics category:");
        System.out.println(categoryMap.get("Electronics"));
        
        // Look up an unknown category
        ProductCategory unknownCategory = ____.____(
    			"Mystery category", ProductCategory.UNCATEGORIZED);
                
        System.out.println("\nMystery category:");
        System.out.println(unknownCategory);
        
        // Create an unmodifiable map
        Map immutableMap = ____.____(categoryMap);
        
        System.out.println("\nAttempting to modify immutable map:");
        try {
            immutableMap.put("new", ProductCategory.ELECTRONICS);
        } catch (UnsupportedOperationException e) {
            System.out.println("Cannot modify immutable map");
        }
    }
}
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