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Allowing Duplicate Keys in Java Collections

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Mar. 03, 12 · Java Zone · Interview
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Java Collections allows you to add one or more elements with the same key by using the MultiValueMap class, found in the Apache org.apache.commons.collections package (http://commons.apache.org/collections/):


package multihashmap.example;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;  
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import org.apache.commons.collections.map.MultiValueMap;

public class MultiHashMapExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        List list;
        MultiValueMap map = new MultiValueMap();
        map.put("A", 4);
        map.put("A", 6);
        map.put("B", 7);
        map.put("C", 1);
        map.put("B", 9);
        map.put("A", 5);

        Set entrySet = map.entrySet();
        Iterator it = entrySet.iterator();
        System.out.println("  Object key  Object value");
        while (it.hasNext()) {
            Map.Entry mapEntry = (Map.Entry) it.next();
            list = (List) map.get(mapEntry.getKey());
            for (int j = 0; j < list.size(); j++) {
                System.out.println("\t" + mapEntry.getKey() + "\t  " + list.get(j));
            }
        }
    }
}
Since Java Core does’t come with some solutions for supporting multiple keys, using the org.apache.commons.collections seems to be a proper way to deal with multiple keys.


And the output is:

 

From http://e-blog-java.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-allow-duplicate-key-in-java.html

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