Java ArrayList in ArrayList

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I have a question about an ArrayList inside an Arraylist. It's about multiple worlds with multiple spawns. I want to check every world one by one and save all the spawns of that world in an ArrayList. At the end I have an ArrayList with on every position (every position is a world) another Arraylist containing the spawns of that world.

How can I do this if I don't know how many spawns or worlds there are going to be? I thought of this:

Looking to just one world:

public ArrayList<Location> Spawnpoints = new ArrayList<Location>(); 
//ArrayList containing all the spawns of this world).

Looking to every single spawn in the world

 Spawnpoints.add(new Location(spawnX , spawnY , spawnZ)); 
//Adding every spawn to the ArrayList spawnpoints.

So after I looked at a world I have filled the ArrayList spawnpoints with locations. Now I want to add the ArrayList spawnpoints to a new ArrayList worlds. After that I will repeat the code above for the next world, untill I have had all the worlds.

EDIT. I think it's working. I have troubles with getting the size of the list when I only have the name.

So let's say I did this: allSpawnpoints.put("yourWorld",Spawnpoints); Now I want to get the size of the Spawnpoints list for the string yourWorld. Any idea how I can do this?

I tried: int number = allSpawnpoints.get("yourWorld").size(); it looks like that isn't working.

I hope someone can help me! Thanks for reading. Regards.

`allSpawnpoints.get("yourWorld")` will return a `List` ..so its like `List loc = allSpawnpoints.get("yourWorld"); loc.size()` — user2720864, Nov 21 '13 at 09:59

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '13 at 16:44

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Instead of an ArrayList or World objects try using a Map of World to List of Location. Something like this:

Map<World,List<Location>> allSpawnpoints = new HashMap<World,List<Location>>();

Then, after you have created your list of spawnpoints for a World put it into your Map like this:

allSpawnpoints.put(yourWorld,Spawnpoints);

... and then move onto the next World.

I would also suggest renaming Spawnpoints as spawnPoints.

answered Nov 20 '13 at 16:44

Tom Mac

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I added something to my question, can you look into it? – user3013897 Nov 21 '13 at 09:55
you have to iterate through the Map object, then you will be able to get each key the value of which you can store to a list and then count the size. – user2720864 Nov 21 '13 at 09:58
So like this? for (Entry> entry : allSpawnpoints.entrySet()) { if (entry.getKey() == "YourWorld") { int number = entry.getValue().size();}} – user3013897 Nov 21 '13 at 10:04
check [this](http://www.sergiy.ca/how-to-iterate-over-a-map-in-java/) to see how to iterate map in Java – user2720864 Nov 21 '13 at 10:07

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