Using Guava's Maps class' utility methods to compute the difference of 2 maps you can do it in a single line, with a method signature which makes it more clear what you are trying to accomplish:
public static void main(final String[] args) {
// Create some maps
final Map<Integer, String> map1 = new HashMap<Integer, String>();
map1.put(1, "Hello");
map1.put(2, "There");
final Map<Integer, String> map2 = new HashMap<Integer, String>();
map2.put(2, "There");
map2.put(3, "is");
map2.put(4, "a");
map2.put(5, "bird");
// Add everything in map1 not in map2 to map2
map2.putAll(Maps.difference(map1, map2).entriesOnlyOnLeft());
}
public class MyMap {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Map<String, String> map1 = new HashMap<String, String>();
map1.put("key1", "value1");
map1.put("key2", "value2");
map1.put("key3", "value3");
map1.put(null, null);
Map<String, String> map2 = new HashMap<String, String>();
map2.put("key4", "value4");
map2.put("key5", "value5");
map2.put("key6", "value6");
map2.put("key3", "replaced-value-of-key3-in-map2");
// used only if map1 can be changes/updates with the same keys present in map2.
map1.putAll(map2);
// use below if you are not supposed to modify the map1.
for (Map.Entry e : map2.entrySet())
if (!map1.containsKey(e.getKey()))
map1.put(e.getKey().toString(), e.getValue().toString());
System.out.println(map1);
}}
With Java 8 there is this API method to accomplish your requirement.
map.putIfAbsent(key, value)
If the specified key is not already associated with a value (or is mapped to null) associates it with the given value and returns null, else returns the current value.
// using for-loop
for (Map.Entry<Integer, String> entry: newMap.entrySet()) {
map.merge(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue(), (oldValue, newValue) -> oldValue);
}
The code iterates the newMap entries (key and value) and each one is merged into map through the method merge. The remappingFunction is triggered in case of duplicated key and in that case it says that the former (original) oldValue value will be used and not rewritten.
With this solution, you don't need a temporary Map.
Let's have an example of merging newMap entries into map and keeping the original values in case of the duplicated antry.
Map<Integer, String> newMap = new HashMap<>();
newMap.put(2, "EVIL VALUE"); // this will NOT be merged into
newMap.put(4, "four"); // this WILL be merged into
newMap.put(5, "five"); // this WILL be merged into
Map<Integer, String> map = new HashMap<>();
map.put(1, "one");
map.put(2, "two");
map.put(3, "three");
newMap.forEach((k, v) -> map.merge(k, v, (oldValue, newValue) -> oldValue));
map.forEach((k, v) -> System.out.println(k + " " + v));