What I have is a HashMap<String, ArrayList<String>> called examList. What I want to use it for is to save grades of each course a person is attending. So key for this HashMap is couresID, and value is a ArrayList of all grades (exam attempts) this person has made.
The problem is I know how to work with array lists and hashmaps normally, but I'm not sure how to even begin with this example. So how would I, or example, add something to ArrayList inside HashMap?
You could either use the Google Guava library, which has implementations for Multi-Value-Maps (Apache Commons Collections has also implementations, but without generics).
However, if you don't want to use an external lib, then you would do something like this:
if (map.get(id) == null) { //gets the value for an id)
map.put(id, new ArrayList<String>()); //no ArrayList assigned, create new ArrayList
map.get(id).add(value); //adds value to list.
String courseID = "Comp-101";
List<String> scores = new ArrayList<String> ();
scores.add("100");
scores.add("90");
scores.add("80");
scores.add("97");
Map<String, ArrayList<String>> myMap = new HashMap<String, ArrayList<String>>();
myMap.put(courseID, scores);
Hope this helps!
Java 8+ has Map.compute for such cases:
examList.compute(courseId, (id, grades) ->
grades != null ? grades : new ArrayList<>())
.add(value);
First create HashMap.
HashMap> mapList = new HashMap>();
Get value from HashMap against your input key.
ArrayList arrayList = mapList.get(key);
Add value to arraylist.
arrayList.add(addvalue);
Then again put arraylist against that key value. mapList.put(key,arrayList);
It will work.....
First you retreieve the value (given a key) and then you add a new element to it
ArrayList<String> grades = examList.get(courseId);
grades.add(aGrade);
First, you have to lookup the correct ArrayList in the HashMap:
ArrayList<String> myAList = theHashMap.get(courseID)
Then, add the new grade to the ArrayList:
myAList.add(newGrade)
Can also do this in Kotlin without using any external libraries.
var hashMap : HashMap<String, MutableList<String>> = HashMap()
if(hashMap.get(id) == null){
hashMap.put(id, mutableListOf<String>("yourString"))
} else{
hashMap.get(id)?.add("yourString")
}
HashMap<String, ArrayList<ObjectX>> objList = new HashMap<>();
if(objList.containsKey(key))
objList.get(key).add(Object1);
else
objList.put(key, new ArrayList<ObjectX>(Arrays.asList(Object1)));
