A Map is an object that maps keys to values or is a collection of attribute-value pairs. The list is an ordered collection of objects and the List can contain duplicate values. The Map has two values (a key and value), while a List only has one value (an element). So we can generate two lists as listed:
- List of values and
- List of keys from a Map.
Let us assume “map” is the instance of Map, henceforth as usual we all know it contains set and value pairs. so they are defined as follows:
- map.values() will return a Collection of the map’s values.
- map.keySet() will return a set of the map’s keys.
Methods:
- Passing sets of keys inside ArrayList constructor parameter
- Passing collection of map values generated by map.values() method to the ArrayList constructor parameter
- Using Streams API (only applicable after JDK 8 and onwards)
Let us discuss each of them
Methods 1: Passing sets of keys inside ArrayList constructor parameter
Procedure: We can convert Map keys to List of Keys bypassing set of map keys generated by map.keySet() method to the ArrayList constructor parameter as shown below
map.values(); // Now here e will pass sets of keys of our map, so it becomes map.values(map.keySet()); // Now we just need to store it into List, so creating object List ListofKeys = new ArrayList(map.keySet()); // Now we are done with conversion.
Syntax: Henceforth it as follows:
List ListofKeys = new ArrayList(map.keySet());
Method 2: List ListofKeys = new ArrayList(map.keySet());
We can convert Map keys to a List of Values by passing a collection of map values generated by map.values() method to ArrayList constructor parameter.
Syntax: Henceforth it is as follows:
List Listofvalues = new ArrayList(map.values());
Example
Java
// Java Program to Convert Map to List// Importing required classesimport java.util.*;class GFG { // Method 1 public static void main(String[] args) { // Creating HashMap HashMap<String, Integer> hs = new HashMap<>(); // Adding elements to hashMap hs.put("Geeks", 1); hs.put("for", 2); hs.put("Geeks", 3); hs.put("Computer", 4); hs.put("Science", 5); hs.put("Portal", 6); // Calling method MapValuesToList obj = new MapValuesToList(hs); // Storing into List List<Integer> mapvaltolist = obj.mapvaltolist(hs); // Printing via for loops for (Integer integerList : mapvaltolist) { // Printing our ArrayList System.out.println(integerList); } } // Method 2 // To convert Map to List public List<String> mapvaltolist(Map<String, Integer> map) { // Using Collection Collection<Integer> val = map.values(); // Creating an ArrayList ArrayList<Integer> al = new ArrayList<>(values); return al; }} |
Output:
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Method 3: Using Streams API
The stream() method returns a stream of the keys from the Set of the map keys returned by Map.keySet(). The collect() method of the Stream class collects the stream of keys in a List.The Collectors.toCollection(ArrayList::new) passed to the collect() method to collect as new ArrayList. One can also use Stream API to convert map keys and values to respective lists. the syntax is as provided below as follows:
List ListofKeys = map.keyset().stream().collect(Collectors.toCollection(ArrayList::new));
List Listofvalues= map.values().stream().collect(Collectors.toCollection(ArrayList::new));
Note: You can collect elements of Stream in an ArrayList, LinkedList, or any other List implementation.
Implementation:
Given RollNo and Student Name of N students as input. First, we create a Map where Rollno is key because Rollno is unique and Name as Value for Map then convert this map to list of values and keys respectively. Where the generated list of keys contains RollNo of students and list of Values contains Name of Students.
Example
Java
// Java program to Convert Map to List// Importing required classesimport java.util.*;// Importing stream sub-packageimport java.util.stream.*;// Main class// MapToListclass GFG { // Main driver method public static void main(String[] args) { // Scanner class to take input of key-value pairs Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); // Creating a Hashmap which maps rollno with student // name Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>(); // Command for better usability System.out.println("Enter No of Students"); // Taking input to Hashmap // via iterating using for loop int noOfStudents = Integer.parseInt(sc.nextLine()); for (int i = 0; i < noOfStudents; i++) { String input = sc.nextLine(); String[] studentdata = input.split(" "); String rollno = studentdata[0]; String name = studentdata[1]; // Simply inserting received pairs to Map map.put(rollno, name); } // Now first create list of keys and values List<String> ListofKeys = null; List<String> ListofValues = null; // Now converting hashMap to List of keys and values ListofKeys = map.keySet().stream().collect( Collectors.toCollection(ArrayList::new)); ListofValues = map.values().stream().collect( Collectors.toCollection(ArrayList::new)); // lastly printing List of rollno and name of // students System.out.println("List of RollNo of Students"); System.out.println(ListofKeys.toString()); System.out.println("List of Name of Students"); System.out.println(ListofValues.toString()); }} |
Output:
