The below method sorts a HashMap by values without removing duplicates. It works for <String,String> but it can be modified accordingly for other types:
private LinkedHashMap sortMapByValuesWithDuplicates(Map passedMap) {
List mapKeys = new ArrayList(passedMap.keySet());
List mapValues = new ArrayList(passedMap.values());
Collections.sort(mapValues);
Collections.sort(mapKeys);
LinkedHashMap sortedMap = new LinkedHashMap();
Iterator valueIt = mapValues.iterator();
while (valueIt.hasNext()) {
Object val = valueIt.next();
Iterator keyIt = mapKeys.iterator();
while (keyIt.hasNext()) {
Object key = keyIt.next();
String comp1 = passedMap.get(key).toString();
String comp2 = val.toString();
if (comp1.equals(comp2)) {
passedMap.remove(key);
mapKeys.remove(key);
sortedMap.put((String) key, (String) val);
break;
}
}
}
return sortedMap;
}
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