I'm using MultiMap from Google Guava 12 like this:
Multimap<Integer, OccupancyType> pkgPOP = HashMultimap.create();
after inserting values into this multimap, I need to return:
Map<Integer, Set<OccupancyType>>
However, when I do:
return pkgPOP.asMap();
It returns me
Map<Integer, Collection<OccupancyType>>
How can I return Map<Integer, Set<OccupancyType>>
instead ?
Look at this issue and comment #2 by Kevin Bourrillion, head Guava dev:
You can double-cast the Map<K, Collection<V>>
first to a raw Map and
then to the Map<K, Set<V>>
that you want. You'll have to suppress an
unchecked warning and you should comment at that point, "Safe because
SetMultimap guarantees this." I may even update the SetMultimap
javadoc to mention this trick.
So do unchecked cast:
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // Safe because SetMultimap guarantees this.
final Map<Integer, Set<OccupancyType>> mapOfSets =
(Map<Integer, Set<OccupancyType>>) (Map<?, ?>) pkgPOP.asMap();
EDIT:
Since Guava 15.0 you can use helper method to do this in more elegant way:
Map<Integer, Set<OccupancyType>> mapOfSets = Multimaps.asMap(pkgPOP);
Guava contributor here:
Do the unsafe cast. It'll be safe.
It can't return a Map<K, Set<V>>
because of the way Java inheritance works. Essentially, the Multimap
supertype has to return a Map<K, Collection<V>>
, and because Map<K, Set<V>>
isn't a subtype of Map<K, Collection<V>>
, you can't override asMap()
to return a Map<K, Set<V>>
.