How to directly initialize a HashMap

Question

Is there some way of initializing a Java HashMap like this?:

Map<String,String> test = 
    new HashMap<String, String>{"test":"test","test":"test"};

What would be the correct syntax? I have not found anything regarding this. Is this possible? I am looking for the shortest/fastest way to put some "final/static" values in a map that never change and are known in advance when creating the Map.

Answer 1

Hello @Kartik,

In plain java 8 you also have the possibility of using Streams/Collectors to do the job.

Map<String, String> myMap = Stream.of(
         new SimpleEntry<>("key1", "value1"),
         new SimpleEntry<>("key2", "value2"),
         new SimpleEntry<>("key3", "value3"))
        .collect(toMap(SimpleEntry::getKey, SimpleEntry::getValue));

This has the advantage of not creating an Anonymous class.

Note that the imports are:

import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toMap;
import java.util.AbstractMap.SimpleEntry;

Note: In java 9 onwards you have simpler ways of doing the same.

Hope this is helpfull!!

Thank You!!