Mappings
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- One way hash function.
- Cannot loop through a mapping
- On Demand Data Structure
- Hash key then get results
- A hash function is any function that can me bused to map data of arbitrary size to data of fixed size
contract MappingDemo { struct Person { uint id; bytes32 name; bool isPerson; } mapping(address => Person) p; function getPerson(address _a) view public returns(uint, bytes32, bool) { var person = p[_a]; // take the value of a and hash it using sha3(_a) // once it hashes it, it will use that value, as the location of where in memory or value is. // memory location 0x0a return (person.id, person.name, person.isPerson); } function setPerson(address _a, uint _id, bytes32 _name) public{ var person = p(_a); // this will get the memory location }
}