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

In C, you would do it by passing pointers to placeholders for the results as arguments:

void getShoeAndWaistSizes(int *shoeSize, int *waistSize) {
    *shoeSize = 36;
    *waistSize = 45;
}
...
int shoeSize, waistSize;
getShoeAndWaistSize(&shoeSize, &waistSize);
int i = shoeSize + waistSize;

Let's try something similar, in Java.

void getShoeAndWaistSizes(List shoeSize, List waistSize) {
    shoeSize.add(36);
    waistSize.add(45);
}
...
List shoeSize = new List<>();
List waistSize = new List<>();
getShoeAndWaistSizes(shoeSize, waistSize);
int i = shoeSize.get(0) + waistSize.get(0);