How to fill a hashmap with an arraylist?

Question

It kinda speaks for itself but how do I fill this?

Map<Integer,ArrayList<Integer>>intMap = new HashMap<Integer, ArrayList<Integer>>();

I've already tried

intMap.put(1, 2);
intMap.put(1, 3); etc

and

intMap.put(1, (2, 3);

Answer 1

You should use Map.computeIfAbsent:

intMap.computeIfAbsent(someKey, k -> new ArrayList<>()).add(someValue);

For example, to have these mappings:

1 -> [2, 3]
5 -> [8]
6 -> [7, 9, 4]

You could do it this way:

intMap.computeIfAbsent(1, k -> new ArrayList<>()).add(2);
intMap.computeIfAbsent(1, k -> new ArrayList<>()).add(3);

intMap.computeIfAbsent(5, k -> new ArrayList<>()).add(8);

intMap.computeIfAbsent(6, k -> new ArrayList<>()).add(7);
intMap.computeIfAbsent(6, k -> new ArrayList<>()).add(9);
intMap.computeIfAbsent(6, k -> new ArrayList<>()).add(4);

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EDIT:

Map.computeIfAbsent is equivalent to this code:

List<Integer> list = intMap.get(someKey);
if (list == null) {
    list = new ArrayList<>();
    intMap.put(someKey, list);
}
list.add(someValue);