Map implementation with duplicate keys

Question

I want to have a map with duplicate keys.

I know there are many map implementations (Eclipse shows me about 50), so I bet there must be one that allows this. I know

Answer 1

This problem can be solved with a list of map entry List<Map.Entry<K,V>>. We don't need to use neither external libraries nor new implementation of Map. A map entry can be created like this: Map.Entry<String, Integer> entry = new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<String, Integer>("key", 1);

Answer 2

just to be complete, Apache Commons Collections also has a MultiMap. The downside of course is that Apache Commons does not use Generics.

Answer 3

If there are duplicate keys then a key may correspond to more than one value. The obvious solution is to map the key to a list of these values.

For example in Python:

map = dict()
map["driver"] = list()
map["driver"].append("john")
map["driver"].append("mike")
print map["driver"]          # It shows john and mike
print map["driver"][0]       # It shows john
print map["driver"][1]       # It shows mike

Answer 4

class  DuplicateMap<K, V> 
{
    enum MapType
    {
        Hash,LinkedHash
    }

    int HashCode = 0;
    Map<Key<K>,V> map = null;

    DuplicateMap()
    {
        map = new HashMap<Key<K>,V>();
    }

    DuplicateMap( MapType maptype )
    {
        if ( maptype == MapType.Hash ) {
            map = new HashMap<Key<K>,V>();
        }
        else if ( maptype == MapType.LinkedHash ) {
            map = new LinkedHashMap<Key<K>,V>();
        }
        else
            map = new HashMap<Key<K>,V>();
    }

    V put( K key, V value  )
    {

        return map.put( new Key<K>( key , HashCode++ ), value );
    }

    void putAll( Map<K, V> map1 )
    {
        Map<Key<K>,V> map2 = new LinkedHashMap<Key<K>,V>();

        for ( Entry<K, V> entry : map1.entrySet() ) {
            map2.put( new Key<K>( entry.getKey() , HashCode++ ), entry.getValue());
        }
        map.putAll(map2);
    }

    Set<Entry<K, V>> entrySet()
    {
        Set<Entry<K, V>> entry = new LinkedHashSet<Map.Entry<K,V>>();
        for ( final Entry<Key<K>, V> entry1 : map.entrySet() ) {
            entry.add( new Entry<K, V>(){
                private K Key = entry1.getKey().Key();
                private V Value = entry1.getValue();

                @Override
                public K getKey() {
                    return Key;
                }

                @Override
                public V getValue() {
                    return Value;
                }

                @Override
                public V setValue(V value) {
                    return null;
                }});
        }

        return entry;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        StringBuilder builder = new  StringBuilder();
        builder.append("{");
        boolean FirstIteration = true;
        for ( Entry<K, V> entry : entrySet() ) {
            builder.append( ( (FirstIteration)? "" : "," ) + ((entry.getKey()==null) ? null :entry.getKey().toString() ) + "=" + ((entry.getValue()==null) ? null :entry.getValue().toString() )  );
            FirstIteration = false;
        }
        builder.append("}");
        return builder.toString();
    }

    class Key<K1>
    {
        K1 Key;
        int HashCode;

        public Key(K1 key, int hashCode) {
            super();
            Key = key;
            HashCode = hashCode;
        }

        public K1 Key() {
            return Key;
        }

        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return  Key.toString() ;
        }

        @Override
        public int hashCode() {

            return HashCode;
        }
    }

Answer 5

I had a slightly different variant of this issue: It was required to associate two different values with same key. Just posting it here in case it helps others, I have introduced a HashMap as the value:

/* @param frameTypeHash: Key -> Integer (frameID), Value -> HashMap (innerMap)
   @param innerMap: Key -> String (extIP), Value -> String
   If the key exists, retrieve the stored HashMap innerMap 
   and put the constructed key, value pair
*/
  if (frameTypeHash.containsKey(frameID)){
            //Key exists, add the key/value to innerHashMap
            HashMap innerMap = (HashMap)frameTypeHash.get(frameID);
            innerMap.put(extIP, connName+":"+frameType+":"+interfaceName);

        } else {
            HashMap<String, String> innerMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
            innerMap.put(extIP, connName+":"+frameType+":"+interfaceName);
            // This means the key doesn't exists, adding it for the first time
            frameTypeHash.put(frameID, innerMap );
        }
}

In the above code the key frameID is read from a input file's first string in each line, the value for frameTypeHash is constructed by splitting the remaining line and was stored as String object originally, over a period of time the file started having multiple lines (with different values) associated with same frameID key, so frameTypeHash was overwritten with last line as the value. I replaced the String object with another HashMap object as the value field, this helped in maintaining single key to different value mapping.

Answer 6

what about such a MultiMap impl?

public class MultiMap<K, V> extends HashMap<K, Set<V>> {
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
  private Map<K, Set<V>> innerMap = new HashMap<>();

  public Set<V> put(K key, V value) {
    Set<V> valuesOld = this.innerMap.get(key);
    HashSet<V> valuesNewTotal = new HashSet<>();
    if (valuesOld != null) {
      valuesNewTotal.addAll(valuesOld);
    }
    valuesNewTotal.add(value);
    this.innerMap.put(key, valuesNewTotal);
    return valuesOld;
  }

  public void putAll(K key, Set<V> values) {
    for (V value : values) {
      put(key, value);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public Set<V> put(K key, Set<V> value) {
    Set<V> valuesOld = this.innerMap.get(key);
    putAll(key, value);
    return valuesOld;
  }

  @Override
  public void putAll(Map<? extends K, ? extends Set<V>> mapOfValues) {
    for (Map.Entry<? extends K, ? extends Set<V>> valueEntry : mapOfValues.entrySet()) {
      K key = valueEntry.getKey();
      Set<V> value = valueEntry.getValue();
      putAll(key, value);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public Set<V> putIfAbsent(K key, Set<V> value) {
    Set<V> valueOld = this.innerMap.get(key);
    if (valueOld == null) {
      putAll(key, value);
    }
    return valueOld;
  }

  @Override
  public Set<V> get(Object key) {
    return this.innerMap.get(key);
  }

  @Override
  etc. etc. override all public methods size(), clear() .....

}