EPAM Systems interview question

What if we insert with key null to a HashMap?

Interview Answers

Anonymous

4 May 2019

Didn't know, however, it's a very edge case, you can insert and the hashcode will be 0, so it's identifying the '0' bucket.

Anonymous

1 Sept 2020

HashMap allows null as both key and value, as well. So you can associate a value to null key. However, TreeMap throws a NullPointerException if you try to put a key with null value.