Retrieving specific values in Multimap

Question

I\'m using a Multimap that has two values per key. Below is the code I\'m using to get each value separately:

The first bit of code gets the first object value:

Answer 1

If you're using Guava, Iterables#get is probably what you want - it returns the Nth item from any iterable, example:

Multimap myMultimap = ArrayListMultimap.create();

// and to return value from position:
return Iterables.get(myMultimap.get(key), position);

If you're using a ListMultimap then it behaves very much like a map to a List so you can directly call get(n).