Hi

i need some advice, though the problem is kind of complicated.

I am reading from a TSV file and creating "node" objects (using a custom class I made) from each entry or line within it. I have a second file which is explicit about which nodes should be connected to which other ones and it is in the following format:
source <tab> target <tab> weight
(some node name) <tab> (some other node name) <tab> (some double value)

What's a good way, once I have "constructed" my nodes using the first file, to equate each node that is mentioned in the "edges" file to its rightful source and target node? The edges I am constructing have their own rightful class and their constructor takes two nodes as its arguments.

here's what I had working in actionscript, though I am not sure if I could easily translate into java/processing:

for each(var o:Object in edges) {
data.nodes.visit(function(n:NodeSprite):void {
if(o.source == n.data.common) o.source = n;
if(o.target == n.data.common) o.target = n;
});
var es:EdgeSprite = new EdgeSprite(o.source,o.target);

SO I guess what's happening is that there are two arrays of objects, one nodes, the other edges, the edges with attributes that can refer to nodes' names, and if the two can be equated then a third group of objects, this time an edgesprite is created? Does that all make sense?

thanks!