Java 8 Map compute methods with code samples

In this article, I will be covering the Java 8 Map compute methods.Java 8 has introduced the Map.compute, Map.computeIfPresent example, and Map.computeIfAbsent methods.

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compute

The computemethod computes a new value for a particular key and updates the Map with the new value. Even if the specified key is not present in the map, it computes the value for the key and adds the key-value mapping to the Map.

The following code demonstrates this:

Map <Integer,String> students = new HashMap<Integer,String>();students.put(100, "Swati Shashtri");students.put(101, "Gina George");students.put(102, "Puja Khanna");    students.compute(100, (key,value) -> value+",Pune");System.out.println(students.get(100));students.compute(101, (key,value) -> value+",Bangalore");System.out.println(students.get(101));

 

Here, there is a Map that has a student id as the key and student name as the value. There are 3 entries in the Map. The computemethod appends a city to the name of the student. So for the student with id 100, it appends the city as “Pune” and for the student with id 101, it appends the value “Bangalore“.

So when you execute this code, it will print the following output:

Swati Shashtri,PuneGina George,Bangalore

computeIfPresent

The computeIfPresentmethod is similar to the computemethod, but it computes a value for the specified key only if the key is present in the map. Computeon the other hand computes a value for the specified key even if it is not present in the map and adds it to the map. The following code demonstrates this:

Map <Integer,String> students = new HashMap<Integer,String>();students.put(100, "Swati Shashtri");students.put(101, "Gina George");students.put(102, "Puja Khanna");    students.compute(103, (key,value) -> value+",Pune");System.out.println(students.get(103));students.computeIfPresent(104, (key,value) -> value+",Bangalore");System.out.println(students.get(104));

 

The above code first invokes compute with the key “103“.  Since there is no key-value mapping corresponding to “103“, computecomputes the value as per the lambda expression and adds it to the map. Next, the code invokescomputeIfPresentfor key “104“. This key is also not present in the Map. Unlike compute, the computeIfPresent

only computes and adds to the map if the key is present. Since this key is not present in the map, the computeIfPresentdoes not do anything. So when you execute this code, it will print the following:

null,Punenull

computeIfAbsent

The computeIfAbsentmethod computes a value for a key if it is not present in the map. The following code demonstrates this:

Map<String, Integer> fruitsLengthMap = new HashMap<String, Integer>();fruitsLengthMap.put("apple", 5);fruitsLengthMap.put("strawberry", 10);String banana = "banana";fruitsLengthMap.computeIfAbsent(banana, key -> key.length());System.out.println(fruitsLengthMap.get(banana));

 

fruitsLengthMap is a Map that stores the name of a fruit as a key and its String length as the value. The computeIfAbsentmethod adds the value “banana” with its length. This method accepts as a parameter a key value and a Functioninterface. This is an in-built functional interface. Here, it is implemented by a lambda expression that simply returns the length of the key. This is then added as the value corresponding to the key. So when this code is executed, it will print the following output:

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Conclusion

In this article, we took a look at a Map.compute example. We also covered what is Map.computeIfAbsent and what is Map.computeIfPresent.

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