Recently I had a task that requires me to work with HashMap. One of the task is to sort the content of a HashMap by its values. I use a HashMap to store a user-defined Object. Therefore, I need to make the user-defined Object "sortable" by implementing Comparable interface first. In this example, the user-defined object is Summary.
This is how I sort a HashMap:
public HashMap
HashMap
ArrayList keys = new ArrayList();
keys.addAll(listOfSummary.values());
Collections.sort(keys, Collections.reverseOrder());
int size = keys.size();
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
Summary summary = (Summary) keys.get(i);
sortedListOfSummary.put(summary.getUrl(), summary);
}
return sortedListOfSummary;
}
I've seen several codes in the Internet that use TreeMap to sort a HashMap, so this code could be another alternative in dealing with such kind of task.
PS: I don't know how to format my code in Blogger. If anyone now how to do it, please let me know.
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