How to return multiple objects from a Java method?

Question

I want to return two objects from a Java method and was wondering what could be a good way of doing so?

The possible ways I can think of are: return a HashMap<

Answer 1

You can utilize a HashMap as follows

public HashMap yourMethod()
{

   .... different logic here 

  HashMap returnHashMap = new HashMap();
  returnHashMap.put("objectA", objectAValue);
  returnHashMap.put("myString", myStringValue);
  returnHashMap.put("myBoolean", myBooleanValue);

  return returnHashMap;
}

Then when calling the method in a different scope, you can cast each object back to its initial type:

// call the method
HashMap resultMap = yourMethod();
                
// fetch the results and cast them
ObjectA objectA = (ObjectA) resultMap.get("objectA");
String myString = (String) resultMap.get("myString");
Boolean myBoolean = (Boolean) resultMap.get("myBoolean");