what java collection that provides multiple values for the same key
You can use a List
as the value of your Map
:
List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>();
list.add(301);
list.add(302);
list.add(303);
Map<Integer, List<Integer>> map = new HashMap<Integer, List<Integer>>();
map.put(300, list);
map.get(300); // [301,302,303]
Alternatively, you can use Multimap
from Guava, as suggested by biziclop, which has a much cleaner syntax, and lots of other very useful utility methods:
Multimap<Integer, Integer> map = HashMultimap.create();
map.put(300, 301);
map.put(300, 302);
map.put(300, 303);
Collection<Integer> list = map.get(300); // [301, 302, 303]
You could use Multimap, it is under the Apache license.
See this link. For posterity:
org.apache.commons.collections
Interface MultiMap
All Superinterfaces:
java.util.Map
All Known Implementing Classes:
MultiHashMap, MultiValueMap
public interface MultiMap
extends java.util.Map
Defines a map that holds a collection of values against each key.
A MultiMap is a Map with slightly different semantics. Putting a value into the map will add the value to a Collection at that key. Getting a value will return a Collection, holding all the values put to that key.
For example:
MultiMap mhm = new MultiHashMap();
mhm.put(key, "A");
mhm.put(key, "B");
mhm.put(key, "C");
Collection coll = (Collection) mhm.get(key);
coll will be a collection containing "A", "B", "C".