rust - How do I create a map from a list in a functional way?

Question

In Scala, there is a method named toMap that works on any list of tuples and converts it to a map where the key is the first item on the tuple and the value is the second one:

val listOfTuples = List(("one", 1), ("two", 2))
val map = listOfTuples.toMap 

What is the closest thing to toMap in Rust?

Answer 1

Use Iterator::collect:

use std::collections::HashMap;

fn main() {
    let tuples = vec![("one", 1), ("two", 2), ("three", 3)];
    let m: HashMap<_, _> = tuples.into_iter().collect();
    println!("{:?}", m);
}

collect leverages the FromIterator trait. Any iterator can be collected into a type that implements FromIterator. In this case, HashMap implements it as:

impl<K, V, S> FromIterator<(K, V)> for HashMap<K, V, S>
where
    K: Eq + Hash,
    S: HashState + Default,

Said another way, any iterator of tuples where the first value can be hashed and compared for total equality can be converted to a HashMap. The S parameter isn't exciting to talk about, it just defines what the hashing method is.

See also:

• Collect iterators of length 2 into HashMap

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what change should I make so that I get all the values with same key stored in a Vec?

There's no one-line / functional method for this in the standard library. Instead, use the entry API:

use std::collections::HashMap;

fn main() {
    let tuples = vec![("one", 1), ("two", 2), ("one", 3)];
    let mut m = HashMap::new();
    for (k, v) in tuples {
        m.entry(k).or_insert_with(Vec::new).push(v)
    }
    println!("{:?}", m);
}

If you found yourself doing this frequently, you could create your own type and implement FromIterator for it:

use std::{cmp::Eq, collections::HashMap, hash::Hash, iter::FromIterator};

struct MyCoolType<K: Eq + Hash, V>(HashMap<K, Vec<V>>);

impl<K: Eq + Hash, V> FromIterator<(K, V)> for MyCoolType<K, V> {
    fn from_iter<I>(tuples: I) -> Self
    where
        I: IntoIterator<Item = (K, V)>,
    {
        let mut m = HashMap::new();
        for (k, v) in tuples {
            m.entry(k).or_insert_with(Vec::new).push(v)
        }
        Self(m)
    }
}

fn main() {
    let tuples = vec![("one", 1), ("two", 2), ("one", 3)];
    let MyCoolType(m) = tuples.into_iter().collect();
    println!("{:?}", m);
}

See also:

• How to lookup from and insert into a HashMap efficiently?