Best way to create a hashmap of arraylist

Question

I have one million rows of data in .txt format. the format is very simple. For each row:

user1,value1
user2,value2
user3,value3
user1,value4
...

You k

Answer 1

Since Java 8 you can use map.computeIfAbsent

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Map.html#computeIfAbsent-K-java.util.function.Function-

Collection<String> values = map.computeIfAbsent(user, k -> new ArrayList<>());
values.add(value);

Answer 2

I Could not find any easy way. MultiMap is not always an option available. So I wrote something this.

public class Context<K, V> extends HashMap<K, V> {

    public V addMulti(K paramK, V paramV) {
        V value = get(paramK);
        if (value == null) {
            List<V> list = new ArrayList<V>();
            list.add(paramV);
            put(paramK, paramV);
        } else if (value instanceof List<?>) {
            ((List<V>)value).add(paramV);
        } else {
            List<V> list = new ArrayList<V>();
            list.add(value);
            list.add(paramV);
            put(paramK, (V) list);
        }
        return paramV;
    }
}

Answer 3

If you don't want to import a library.

package util;    

import java.util.ArrayList;    
import java.util.HashMap;    
import java.util.List;    

/**    
 * A simple implementation of a MultiMap. This implementation allows duplicate elements in the the    
 * values. (I know classes like this are out there but the ones available to me didn't work).    
 */    
public class MultiMap<K, V> extends HashMap<K, List<V>> {    

  /**    
   * Looks for a list that is mapped to the given key. If there is not one then a new one is created    
   * mapped and has the value added to it.    
   *     
   * @param key    
   * @param value    
   * @return true if the list has already been created, false if a new list is created.    
   */    
  public boolean putOne(K key, V value) {    
    if (this.containsKey(key)) {    
      this.get(key).add(value);    
      return true;    
    } else {    
      List<V> values = new ArrayList<>();    
      values.add(value);    
      this.put(key, values);    
      return false;    
    }    
  }    
}