Group a list of objects by an attribute

Question

I need to group a list of objects (Student) using an attribute (Location) of the particular object. The code is like below:

public class Grouping {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        List<Student> studlist = new ArrayList<Student>();
        studlist.add(new Student("1726", "John", "New York"));
        studlist.add(new Student("4321", "Max", "California"));
        studlist.add(new Student("2234", "Andrew", "Los Angeles"));
        studlist.add(new Student("5223", "Michael", "New York"));
        studlist.add(new Student("7765", "Sam", "California"));
        studlist.add(new Student("3442", "Mark", "New York"));

    }
}

class Student {
    String stud_id;
    String stud_name;
    String stud_location;

    Student(String sid, String sname, String slocation) {
        this.stud_id = sid;
        this.stud_name = sname;
        this.stud_location = slocation;
    }
}

Please suggest me a clean way to do it.

Answer 1

In Java 8:

Map<String, List<Student>> studlistGrouped =
    studlist.stream().collect(Collectors.groupingBy(w -> w.stud_location));