Populating an inner List in a Map

Populating a inner List in a Map collection

A simple way to populate a list that inside a map collection could be done like this.
You can run that piece of code in your developer console.

/**********************************************************************
*
*    Populating a List inside a Map collection
*
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List<Account> acclist = [SELECT Id, Name,
                            (SELECT Id, lastName FROM Contacts)
                                FROM Account LIMIT 50];

// This map will be contain the list of contacts as values and the
// account ids as key.
Map<Id,List<Contact>> accConMap = new Map<Id,List<Contact>();

     for(account acc : acclist)
     {
      List<Contact> innerList = new List<Contact>();
      for(contact c: acc.contacts)

        innerList.add(c);
        accConMap.put(acc.id, innerList); 

     }

// accConMap.put(acc.Id, innerList) will insert key and values to our map
//

As you can see it is quite simple.
All you need to do is to iterate over the accounts an add all related contacts to a list.
This list will be added to our map together with the AccountId which will be the key in our map.