How to verify if a value in HashMap exist

Question

I have the following HashMap where the key is a String and the value is represented by an ArrayList:

 HashMap<String, ArrayList<String>> productsMap = AsyncUpload.getFoodMap();

I also have another ArrayList<String> foods implemented in my application.

My question is, What would be the best way to find out if my HashMap contains a Specific String from my second ArrayList?

I have tried without success:

Iterator<String> keySetIterator = productsMap.keySet().iterator();
Iterator<ArrayList<String>> valueSetIterator = productsMap.values().iterator();

    while(keySetIterator.hasNext() && valueSetIterator.hasNext()){
        String key = keySetIterator.next();
        if(mArrayList.contains(key)){
            System.out.println("Yes! its a " + key);
        }
    }

Answer 1

Why not:

// fast-enumerating map's values
for (ArrayList<String> value: productsMap.values()) {
    // using ArrayList#contains
    System.out.println(value.contains("myString"));
}

And if you have to iterate over the whole ArrayList<String>, instead of looking for one specific value only:

// fast-enumerating food's values ("food" is an ArrayList<String>)
for (String item: foods) {
    // fast-enumerating map's values
    for (ArrayList<String> value: productsMap.values()) {
        // using ArrayList#contains
        System.out.println(value.contains(item));
    }
}

Edit

Past time I updated this with some Java 8 idioms.

The Java 8 streams API allows a more declarative (and arguably elegant) way of handling these types of iteration.

For instance, here's a (slightly too verbose) way to achieve the same:

// iterate foods 
foods
    .stream()
    // matches any occurrence of...
    .anyMatch(
        // ... any list matching any occurrence of...
        (s) -> productsMap.values().stream().anyMatch(
            // ... the list containing the iterated item from foods
            (l) -> l.contains(s)
        )
    )

... and here's a simpler way to achieve the same, initially iterating the productsMap values instead of the contents of foods:

// iterate productsMap values
productsMap
    .values()
    .stream()
    // flattening to all list elements
    .flatMap(List::stream)
    // matching any occurrence of...
    .anyMatch(
        // ... an element contained in foods
        (s) -> foods.contains(s)
    )

Answer 2

You need to use the containsKey() method. To do this, you simply get the hashMap you want the key out of, then use the containsKey method, which will return a boolean value if it does. This will search the whole hashMap without having to iterate over each item. If you do have the key, then you can simply retrieve the value.

It might look something like:

if(productsMap.values().containsKey("myKey"))
{
    // do something if hashMap has key
}

Here is the link to Android

From the Android docs:

public boolean containsKey (Object key) Added in API level 1

Returns whether this map contains the specified key. Parameters key the key to search for. Returns

true if this map contains the specified key, false otherwise.