How to sort a Map<Key, Value> on the values in Java?

Anonymous User 1834 13 May 2015

I am relatively new to Java, and often find that I need to sort a Map<Key, Value> on the values. Since the values are not unique, I find myself converting the keySet into an array, and sorting that array through array sort with a custom comparator that sorts on the value associated with the key. Is there an easier way?

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Anonymous User 14 May 2015

static Map sortByValue(Map map) {
     List list = new LinkedList(map.entrySet());
     Collections.sort(list, new Comparator() {
          public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
               return ((Comparable) ((Map.Entry) (o1)).getValue())
              .compareTo(((Map.Entry) (o2)).getValue());
          }
     });
    Map result = new LinkedHashMap();
    for (Iterator it = list.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
        Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry)it.next();
        result.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
    }
    return result;
}

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