Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2006, 2014 IBM Corporation and others. * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors: * Mike Kucera (IBM Corporation) - initial API and implementation * Sergey Prigogin (Google) * Nathan Ridge *******************************************************************************/ import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; public class Main { /** * Returns a List<U> corresponding to a T in a Map<T, List<U>>. If the mapping doesn't exist, * creates it with an empty list as the initial value. * @since 5.6 */ public static <T, U> List<U> listMapGet(Map<T, List<U>> m, T t) { List<U> result = m.get(t); if (result == null) { result = new ArrayList<U>(); m.put(t, result); } return result; } }