Is there such a thing as bidirectional maps in Scala?

Question

I\'d like to link 2 columns of unique identifiers and be able to get a first column value by a second column value as well as a second column value by a first column value. Some

Answer 1

Here's a quick Scala wrapper for Guava's BiMap.

import com.google.common.{collect => guava}
import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
import scala.collection.mutable
import scala.languageFeature.implicitConversions

class MutableBiMap[A, B] private (
    private val g: guava.BiMap[A, B] = new guava.HashBiMap[A, B]()) {

  def inverse: MutableBiMap[B, A] = new MutableBiMap[B, A](g.inverse)
}

object MutableBiMap {

  def empty[A, B]: MutableBiMap[A, B] = new MutableBiMap()

  implicit def toMap[A, B] (x: MutableBiMap[A, B]): mutable.Map[A,B] = x.g
}