How to do customized Sorting byHashMap key or by value using Comparator - Java

This post will explain how to sort by key and sort by value using HashMap and Comparator.

Step 1: First create a Employee class which is having all the details related to Employee

/**
 * 
 * @author rajusiva
 *
 */

public class Employee {

	
	Integer empId;
	String name;
	Float salary;
	
	public Employee(Integer id,String name, Float sal){
		this.empId = id;
		this.name = name;
		this.salary = sal;
		
	}
	
	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "Emp Id: "+this.empId+" Name: "+this.name +" salary: " +this.salary;
	}

	public Integer getEmpId() {
		return empId;
	}
	public void setEmpId(Integer empId) {
		this.empId = empId;
	}
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}
	public Float getSalary() {
		return salary;
	}
	public void setSalary(Float salary) {
		this.salary = salary;
	}

}

Step 2: Below is the class for sort by key and sort by value using comparator

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TreeMap;

/** This class is used to custom sort using Comparator interface and overriding compare method.
 * 
 * @author rajusiva
 *
 */
public class CustomHashMapSort {
	
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Map map = new HashMap();
		map.put("205", new Employee(1, "siva", 75000f));
		map.put("202", new Employee(2, "raju", 85000f));
		map.put("203", new Employee(3, "kumar", 50000f));
		map.put("204", new Employee(4, "arjun", 35000f));
		map.put("200", new Employee(5, "neha", 45000f));
		map.put("198", new Employee(6, "sneha", 25000f));
		
		Map sortedMap = new TreeMap(map);
		for (Iterator iterator = sortedMap.keySet().iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
			String key = (String) iterator.next();
			Employee emp = map.get(key);
			System.out.println("Sort By key [" + key  +"]  [" + emp + "]");
			
		}
		System.out.println("=============================================");
		HashMap sortedMapByValue = sortByValue(map);
		for (Iterator iterator = sortedMapByValue.keySet().iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
			String key = (String) iterator.next();
			Employee emp = map.get(key);
			System.out.println("Sort By Value by Name  Key-[ "+key  +"]  value [" + emp.getName() +"]");
			
		}
		
		
	}
	/**This method will used to sort custom object value type(either empId,name, salary)
	 * 
	 * @param empLoyeeMap of type Map values
	 * @return sorted hashmap values
	 */
	public static  HashMap sortByValue(Map empLoyeeMap) {
		List> list = new java.util.LinkedList>(empLoyeeMap.entrySet());

		Collections.sort(list, new Comparator>() {
        // sort the value using compare method and comparator
		 @Override
		 public int compare(Map.Entry value1, Map.Entry value2) {
		 return (value1.getValue().getName()).compareTo(value2.getValue().getName());
		 }
		});
		
		 HashMap sortedHashMap = new LinkedHashMap();
	       for (Iterator it = list.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
	              Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry) it.next();
	              sortedHashMap.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
	       } 
	       return sortedHashMap;
		
		
	}
	

}

output:

Sort By key [198]  [Emp Id: 6 Name: sneha salary: 25000.0]
Sort By key [200]  [Emp Id: 5 Name: neha salary: 45000.0]
Sort By key [202]  [Emp Id: 2 Name: raju salary: 85000.0]
Sort By key [203]  [Emp Id: 3 Name: kumar salary: 50000.0]
Sort By key [204]  [Emp Id: 4 Name: arjun salary: 35000.0]
Sort By key [205]  [Emp Id: 1 Name: siva salary: 75000.0]
=============================================
Sort By Value by Name  Key-[ 204]  value [arjun]
Sort By Value by Name  Key-[ 203]  value [kumar]
Sort By Value by Name  Key-[ 200]  value [neha]
Sort By Value by Name  Key-[ 202]  value [raju]
Sort By Value by Name  Key-[ 205]  value [siva]
Sort By Value by Name  Key-[ 198]  value [sneha]

Hope this will help you to understand how we can custom object sort by key and value using comparator.