How to convert Map<String,String> to ArrayList<Employee>

[Pradeep allada]

Is it possible to convert Map<String,String> to ArrayList<Employee>?

Employee is a class which has name and address fields of type String.

[Martin Vashko]

Assuming you want to use the map keys as name and map values as address: yes, it is possible - by writing the necessary code. I don't know of any JDK class or method that would do the work in this case.

What have you tried? Do you have some doubts?

[Pradeep allada]

no name and address are the fields belongs to Employee like employee name and employee address

I have tried like this
I don't know whether it is correct or not

Map<String, String> m = new HashMap<String,String>();
m.put("name","pradeep");
m.put("address","bangalore");

and to convert them to List

List<Employee> l = new ArrayList<Employee>(m.values()); //here it is giving compile time error

public class Employee {
   
   public String name;
   public String address;

    public Employee(String name, String address) {
        this.name = name;
        this.address = address;
    }
   
   setters and getters   

[Martin Vashko]

You're getting compile-time error, because the m.values() is a collection of Strings. That ArrayList constructor needs a collection of Employee's.

Java doesn't know how to convert a String to an Employee. You need to do that. You probably also need to code a loop that will go through all the entries in the map.

It might help if you write down all the individual operations you need to do on a piece of paper. And then start to thinking about converting these steps to actual code.