How are we able to sort a HashMap<key, ArrayList>?
I want to sort on the basis of a value in the ArrayList.
How to sort a HashMap in Java
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Do you have to use a HashMap? If you only need the Map Interface use a TreeMap
If you want to sort by comparing values in the HashMap. You have to write code to do this, if you want to do it once you can sort the values of your HashMap:
Map<String, Person> people = new HashMap<>();
Person jim = new Person("Jim", 25);
Person scott = new Person("Scott", 28);
Person anna = new Person("Anna", 23);
people.put(jim.getName(), jim);
people.put(scott.getName(), scott);
people.put(anna.getName(), anna);
// not yet sorted
List<Person> peopleByAge = new ArrayList<>(people.values());
Collections.sort(peopleByAge, Comparator.comparing(Person::getAge));
for (Person p : peopleByAge) {
System.out.println(p.getName() + "\t" + p.getAge());
}
If you want to access this sorted list often, then you could insert your elements into a HashMap<TreeSet<Person>>, though the semantics of sets and lists are a bit different.
http://snipplr.com/view/2789/sorting-map-keys-by-comparing-its-values/
get the keys
List keys = new ArrayList(yourMap.keySet());
Sort them
Collections.sort(keys)
print them.
In any case, you can't have sorted values in HashMap (according to API This class makes no guarantees as to the order of the map; in particular, it does not guarantee that the order will remain constant over time ].
Though you can push all these values to LinkedHashMap, for later use as well.
Seems like you might want a treemap.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/TreeMap.html
You can pass in a custom comparator to it if that applies.
Without any more information, it's hard to know exactly what you want. However, when choosing what data structure to use, you need to take into account what you need it for. Hashmaps are not designed for sorting - they are designed for easy retrieval. So in your case, you'd probably have to extract each element from the hashmap, and put them into a data structure more conducive to sorting, such as a heap or a set, and then sort them there.
If you want to combine a Map for efficient retrieval with a SortedMap, you may use the ConcurrentSkipListMap.
Of course, you need the key to be the value used for sorting.
A proper answer.
HashMap<Integer, Object> map = new HashMap<Integer, Object>();
ArrayList<Integer> sortedKeys = new ArrayList<Integer>(map.keySet());
Collections.sort(sortedKeys, new Comparator<Integer>() {
@Override
public int compare(Integer a, Integer b) {
return a.compareTo(b);
}
});
for (Integer key: sortedKeys) {
//map.get(key);
}
Note that HashMap itself cannot maintain sorting, as other answers have pointed out. It's a hash map, and hashed values are unsorted. You can thus either sort the keys when you need to and then access the values in order, as I demonstrated above, or you can find a different collection to store your data, like an ArrayList of Pairs/Tuples, such as the Pair found in Apache Commons:
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/apidocs/org/apache/commons/lang3/tuple/Pair.html
Sorting by key:
public static void main(String[] args) {
Map<String,String> map = new HashMap<>();
map.put("b", "dd");
map.put("c", "cc");
map.put("a", "aa");
map = new TreeMap<>(map);
for (String key : map.keySet()) {
System.out.println(key+"="+map.get(key));
}
}
HashMap doesnt maintain any order, so if you want any kind of ordering, you need to store that in something else, which is a map and can have some kind of ordering, like LinkedHashMap
below is a simple program, by which you can sort by key, value, ascending ,descending ..( if you modify the compactor, you can use any kind of ordering, on keys and values)
package com.edge.collection.map;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
public class SortMapByKeyValue {
Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
public static void main(String[] args) {
SortMapByKeyValue smkv = new SortMapByKeyValue();
smkv.createMap();
System.out.println("After sorting by key ascending order......");
smkv.sortByKey(true);
System.out.println("After sorting by key descindeng order......");
smkv.sortByKey(false);
System.out.println("After sorting by value ascending order......");
smkv.sortByValue(true);
System.out.println("After sorting by value descindeng order......");
smkv.sortByValue(false);
}
void createMap() {
map.put("B", 55);
map.put("A", 80);
map.put("D", 20);
map.put("C", 70);
map.put("AC", 70);
map.put("BC", 70);
System.out.println("Before sorting......");
printMap(map);
}
void sortByValue(boolean order) {
List<Entry<String, Integer>> list = new LinkedList<Entry<String, Integer>>(map.entrySet());
Collections.sort(list, new Comparator<Entry<String, Integer>>() {
public int compare(Entry<String, Integer> o1, Entry<String, Integer> o2) {
if (order) {
return o1.getValue().compareTo(o2.getValue());
} else {
return o2.getValue().compareTo(o1.getValue());
}
}
});
Map<String, Integer> sortedMap = new LinkedHashMap<String, Integer>();
for (Entry<String, Integer> entry : list) {
sortedMap.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
}
printMap(sortedMap);
}
void sortByKey(boolean order) {
List<Entry<String, Integer>> list = new LinkedList<Entry<String, Integer>>(map.entrySet());
Collections.sort(list, new Comparator<Entry<String, Integer>>() {
public int compare(Entry<String, Integer> o1, Entry<String, Integer> o2) {
if (order) {
return o1.getKey().compareTo(o2.getKey());
} else {
return o2.getKey().compareTo(o1.getKey());
}
}
});
Map<String, Integer> sortedMap = new LinkedHashMap<String, Integer>();
for (Entry<String, Integer> entry : list) {
sortedMap.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
}
printMap(sortedMap);
}
public void printMap(Map<String, Integer> map) {
// System.out.println(map);
for (Entry<String, Integer> entry : map.entrySet()) {
System.out.println(entry.getKey() + " : " + entry.getValue());
}
}
}
here is the git link
Sorting HashMap by value in Java:
public class HashMapSortByValue {
public static void main(String[] args) {
HashMap<Long,String> unsortMap = new HashMap<Long,String>();
unsortMap.put(5l,"B");
unsortMap.put(8l,"A");
unsortMap.put(2l, "D");
unsortMap.put(7l,"C" );
System.out.println("Before sorting......");
System.out.println(unsortMap);
HashMap<Long,String> sortedMapAsc = sortByComparator(unsortMap);
System.out.println("After sorting......");
System.out.println(sortedMapAsc);
}
public static HashMap<Long,String> sortByComparator(
HashMap<Long,String> unsortMap) {
List<Map.Entry<Long,String>> list = new LinkedList<Map.Entry<Long,String>>(
unsortMap.entrySet());
Collections.sort(list, new Comparator<Map.Entry<Long,String>> () {
public int compare(Map.Entry<Long,String> o1, Map.Entry<Long,String> o2) {
return o1.getValue().compareTo(o2.getValue());
}
});
HashMap<Long,String> sortedMap = new LinkedHashMap<Long,String>();
for (Entry<Long,String> entry : list) {
sortedMap.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
}
return sortedMap;
}
}
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