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Bidirectional 1 to 1 Dictionary in C#

Asked 2008-11-06T11:13:30.567
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I am looking for a generic, bidirectional 1 to 1 Dictionary class in C# (2), ie. a BiDictionaryOneToOne<T, S> which is guaranteed to only contain one of each value and key (up to RefEquals anyway), and which can be searched using either key or value. Anyone know of one, or should I just implement it myself? I can't believe that I'm the first person to need this...

There is a BiDictionary in the answers to this question, but it is not for unique elements (and also does not implement RemoveByFirst(T t) or RemoveBySecond(S s)).

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This is same as accepted answer, but I provided Update methods as well, and over all little more fleshed out:

public class BiDictionary<TKey1, TKey2> : IEnumerable<Tuple<TKey1, TKey2>>
{
    Dictionary<TKey1, TKey2> _forwards;
    Dictionary<TKey2, TKey1> _reverses;

    public int Count
    {
        get
        {
            if (_forwards.Count != _reverses.Count)
                throw new Exception("somewhere logic went wrong and your data got corrupt");

            return _forwards.Count;
        }
    }

    public ICollection<TKey1> Key1s
    {
        get { return _forwards.Keys; }
    }

    public ICollection<TKey2> Key2s
    {
        get { return _reverses.Keys; }
    }

    public BiDictionary(IEqualityComparer<TKey1> comparer1 = null, IEqualityComparer<TKey2> comparer2 = null)
    {
        _forwards = new Dictionary<TKey1, TKey2>(comparer1);
        _reverses = new Dictionary<TKey2, TKey1>(comparer2);
    }



    public bool ContainsKey1(TKey1 key)
    {
        return ContainsKey(key, _forwards);
    }

    private static bool ContainsKey<S, T>(S key, Dictionary<S, T> dict)
    {
        return dict.ContainsKey(key);
    }

    public bool ContainsKey2(TKey2 key)
    {
        return ContainsKey(key, _reverses);
    }

    public TKey2 GetValueByKey1(TKey1 key)
    {
        return GetValueByKey(key, _forwards);
    }

    private static T GetValueByKey<S, T>(S key, Dictionary<S, T> dict)
    {
        return dict[key];
    }

    public TKey1 GetValueByKey2(TKey2 key)
    {
        return GetValueByKey(key, _reverses);
    }

    public bool TryGetValueByKey1(TKey1 key, out TKey2 value)
    {
        return TryGetValue(key, _forwards, out value);
    }

    private static bool TryGetValue<S, T>(S key, Dictionary<S, T> dict, out T value)
    {
        return dict.TryGetValue(key, out value);
    }

    public bool Try
answered 2013-04-06T15:53:32.503

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