Re : Re : Convert List to Map

> Thanks
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> Your sample works fine for my use case (that's exactly what I'm doing in my code), but I was wondering about such utility thing just after looking at :
> http://commons.apache.org/collections/api-release/org/apache/commons/collections/map/TransformedMap.html#decorate(java.util.Map,%20org.apache.commons.collections.Transformer,%20org.apache.commons.collections.Transformer)
> which is a map-to-map conversions.
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> Since commons-collection provides map-to-map conversion, why does'nt it provide list-to-map conversion with the same logic ?
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> De : Ted Dunning <ted.dunning@...>
> À : Commons Users List <user@...>
> Envoyé le : Jeudi, 11 Juin 2009, 23h12mn 10s
> Objet : Re: Convert List to Map
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> How is this easier than this:
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> Map m = new HashMap();
> for (SpecificObject x : list) {
>    m.put(s.getId(), s.getDescription());
> }
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> ?
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> Why make this soo much harder than it needs to be?
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> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Adrian Gonzalez <adr_gonzalez@...>wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I have the same question as
>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-user/200509.mbox/%3C878e7290050905002752ed543d@...%3E:
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>> I need to do a lot of list-to-map conversions, and I'm looking for a way to
>> use commons collections for this.
>> I would like to do something like this:
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>> Map map = ListUtils.toMap(list, new SomeTransformerInterface() {
>>    void insertIntoMap(Object object, Map map) {
>>    SpecificObject s = (SpecificObject) object;
>>    map.put(s.getId(), s.getDescription());
>>    }
>> });
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>> Is there a way to do that with commons collection ?
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>> Thank you very much
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