How to convert java Map to scala Map of type LinkedHashMap[String,ArrayList[String]]?

Question

from Java API I get

java.util.LinkedHashMap[String,java.util.ArrayList[String]]

which I then need to pass as a parameter to a scala progra

Answer 1

You've got two problems: Map and List in scala are different from the java versions.

scala.collection.JavaConversions.mapAsScalaMap creates a mutable map, so using the mutable map, the following works:

import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
import scala.collection.mutable.Map

val f = new java.util.LinkedHashMap[String, java.util.ArrayList[String]]
var g: Map[String, java.util.ArrayList[String]] = f

The ArrayList is a bit harder. The following works:

import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
import scala.collection.mutable.Buffer

val a = new java.util.ArrayList[String]
var b: Buffer[String] = a

But if we try

import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
import scala.collection.mutable.Map
import scala.collection.mutable.Buffer

val f = new java.util.LinkedHashMap[String, java.util.ArrayList[String]]
var g: Map[String, Buffer[String]] = f

this doesn't work. Your best option is to define an explicit implicit conversion yourself for this.