HashMap with multiple values under the same key

Question

Is it possible for us to implement a HashMap with one key and two values. Just as HashMap?

Please do help me, also by telling (if there is no way) any other way to

Answer 1

HashMap<Integer,ArrayList<String>> map = new    HashMap<Integer,ArrayList<String>>();

ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
list.add("abc");
list.add("xyz");
map.put(100,list);

Answer 2

Just for the record, the pure JDK8 solution would be to use Map::compute method:

map.compute(key, (s, strings) -> strings == null ? new ArrayList<>() : strings).add(value);

Such as

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Map<String, List<String>> map = new HashMap<>();

    put(map, "first", "hello");
    put(map, "first", "foo");
    put(map, "bar", "foo");
    put(map, "first", "hello");

    map.forEach((s, strings) -> {
        System.out.print(s + ": ");
        System.out.println(strings.stream().collect(Collectors.joining(", ")));
    });
}

private static <KEY, VALUE> void put(Map<KEY, List<VALUE>> map, KEY key, VALUE value) {
    map.compute(key, (s, strings) -> strings == null ? new ArrayList<>() : strings).add(value);
}

with output:

bar: foo
first: hello, foo, hello

Note that to ensure consistency in case multiple threads access this data structure, ConcurrentHashMap and CopyOnWriteArrayList for instance need to be used.

Answer 3

 import java.io.*;
 import java.util.*;

 import com.google.common.collect.*;

 class finTech{
public static void main(String args[]){
       Multimap<String, String> multimap = ArrayListMultimap.create();
       multimap.put("1","11");
       multimap.put("1","14");
       multimap.put("1","12");
       multimap.put("1","13");
       multimap.put("11","111");
       multimap.put("12","121");
        System.out.println(multimap);
        System.out.println(multimap.get("11"));
   }                                                                                            
 }                                                                    

Output:

     {"1"=["11","12","13","14"],"11"=["111"],"12"=["121"]}

      ["111"]

This is Google-Guava library for utility functionalities. This is the required solution.

Answer 4

Take a look at Multimap from the guava-libraries and its implementation - HashMultimap

A collection similar to a Map, but which may associate multiple values with a single key. If you call put(K, V) twice, with the same key but different values, the multimap contains mappings from the key to both values.

Answer 5

I could not post a reply on Paul's comment so I am creating new comment for Vidhya here:

Wrapper will be a SuperClass for the two classes which we want to store as a value.

and inside wrapper class, we can put the associations as the instance variable objects for the two class objects.

e.g.

class MyWrapper {

 Class1 class1obj = new Class1();
 Class2 class2obj = new Class2();
...
}

and in HashMap we can put in this way,

Map<KeyObject, WrapperObject> 

WrapperObj will have class variables: class1Obj, class2Obj

Answer 6

Can be done using an identityHashMap, subjected to the condition that the keys comparison will be done by == operator and not equals().