Shortcut for adding to List in a HashMap

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Since Java 8 you can make use of Map#computeIfAbsent().

Map<String, List<User>> usersByCountry = new HashMap<>();

for (User user : listOfUsers) {
    usersByCountry.computeIfAbsent(user.getCountry(), k -> new ArrayList<>()).add(user);
}

Or, make use of Stream API’s Collectors#groupingBy() to go from List to Map directly:

Map<String, List<User>> usersByCountry = listOfUsers.stream().collect(Collectors.groupingBy(User::getCountry));

In Java 7 or below, best what you can get is below:

Map<String, List<User>> usersByCountry = new HashMap<>();

for (User user : listOfUsers) {
    List<User> users = usersByCountry.get(user.getCountry());
    if (users == null) {
        users = new ArrayList<>();
        usersByCountry.put(user.getCountry(), users);
    }
    users.add(user);
}

Commons Collections has a LazyMap, but it’s not parameterized. Guava doesn’t have sort of a LazyMap or LazyList, but you can use Multimap for this as shown in answer of polygenelubricants below.

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