Map with Key as String and Value as List in Groovy

Question

Can anyone point me to an example of how to use a Map in Groovy which has a String as its key and a List as value?

Answer 1

One additional small piece that is helpful when dealing with maps/list as the value in a map is the withDefault(Closure) method on maps in groovy. Instead of doing the following code:

Map m = [:]
for(object in listOfObjects)
{
  if(m.containsKey(object.myKey))
  {
    m.get(object.myKey).add(object.myValue)
  }
  else
  {
    m.put(object.myKey, [object.myValue]
  }
}

You can do the following:

Map m = [:].withDefault{key -> return []}
for(object in listOfObjects)
{
  List valueList = m.get(object.myKey)
  m.put(object.myKey, valueList)
}

With default can be used for other things as well, but I find this the most common use case for me.

API: http://www.groovy-lang.org/gdk.html

Map -> withDefault(Closure)