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Conversion of Java Maps to List

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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:

  1. Passing sets of keys inside ArrayList constructor parameter
  2. Passing collection of map values generated by map.values() method to the ArrayList constructor parameter
  3. 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 classes
import 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:

1
2
3
4
5
6

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 classes
import java.util.*;
// Importing stream sub-package
import java.util.stream.*;
 
// Main class
// MapToList
class 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:



Last Updated : 28 Oct, 2021
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