These are the standardized classes created by @chasebish, from https://github.com/chasebish/cwc_object_string. They are used to allow for a uniform API amongst spec pairs for all teams in CS4500.
See that README.md for more information.
Because we don't have any way of using generics or similar strategies in CwC, the Map class
simply keeps track of Objects. This provides functionality of a map, probably through the Object class' hash() and equals() methods, using Objects as both keys and values. Note these aren't virtual methods. This Map class does not take ownership over any of the Objects added to it as keys or values.
This provides the functionality of a String->Object Map.
The StrtoStrMap class inherits from Map class, and represents a map where both keys and values are Strings. Because we create new methods of the same names (e.g., StrtoStrMap has String* get(String* key) and Map has Object* get(Object* key)), Map's implementations are hidden from StrtoStrMap. This means we'll be able to use similar method names with the types we'd expect, though it does mean we can't use dynamic dispatch on these methods. These methods probably just delegate to Map's methods, but - because of the invariant that all keys and values are put as Strings - can cast values to Strings before returning them.
This provides the functionality of a String->String Map.
To download Google Test and create a Makefile, run:
cmake .
Then run:
make
That will create an executable titled mapTests. Run it with:
./mapTests