Java Hashmap: How to get key from value?

Question

If I have the value \"foo\", and a HashMap ftw for which ftw.containsValue(\"foo\") returns true, how can I

Answer 1

I think this is best solution, original address: Java2s

    import java.util.HashMap;
    import java.util.Map;

        public class Main {

          public static void main(String[] argv) {
            Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
            map.put("1","one");
            map.put("2","two");
            map.put("3","three");
            map.put("4","four");

            System.out.println(getKeyFromValue(map,"three"));
          }


// hm is the map you are trying to get value from it
          public static Object getKeyFromValue(Map hm, Object value) {
            for (Object o : hm.keySet()) {
              if (hm.get(o).equals(value)) {
                return o;
              }
            }
            return null;
          }
        }

An easy usage: if you put all data in hasMap and you have item = "Automobile", so you are looking its key in hashMap. that is good solution.

getKeyFromValue(hashMap, item);
System.out.println("getKeyFromValue(hashMap, item): "+getKeyFromValue(hashMap, item));

Answer 2

You can use the below:

public class HashmapKeyExist {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        HashMap<String, String> hmap = new HashMap<String, String>();
        hmap.put("1", "Bala");
        hmap.put("2", "Test");

        Boolean cantain = hmap.containsValue("Bala");
        if(hmap.containsKey("2") && hmap.containsValue("Test"))
        {
            System.out.println("Yes");
        }
        if(cantain == true)
        {
            System.out.println("Yes"); 
        }

        Set setkeys = hmap.keySet();
        Iterator it = setkeys.iterator();

        while(it.hasNext())
        {
            String key = (String) it.next();
            if (hmap.get(key).equals("Bala"))
            {
                System.out.println(key);
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

It sounds like the best way is for you to iterate over entries using map.entrySet() since map.containsValue() probably does this anyway.

Answer 4

/**
 * This method gets the Key for the given Value
 * @param paramName
 * @return
 */
private String getKeyForValueFromMap(String paramName) {
    String keyForValue = null;
    if(paramName!=null)) {
        Set<Entry<String,String>> entrySet = myMap().entrySet();
        if(entrySet!=null && entrySet.size>0) {
            for(Entry<String,String> entry : entrySet) {
                if(entry!=null && paramName.equalsIgnoreCase(entry.getValue())) {
                    keyForValue = entry.getKey();
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return keyForValue;
}

Answer 5

Using Java 8:

ftw.forEach((key, value) -> {
    if (value.equals("foo")) {
        System.out.print(key);
    }
});

Answer 6

You can get the key using values using following code..

ArrayList valuesList = new ArrayList();
Set keySet = initalMap.keySet();
ArrayList keyList = new ArrayList(keySet);

for(int i = 0 ; i < keyList.size() ; i++ ) {
    valuesList.add(initalMap.get(keyList.get(i)));
}

Collections.sort(valuesList);
Map finalMap = new TreeMap();
for(int i = 0 ; i < valuesList.size() ; i++ ) {
    String value = (String) valuesList.get(i);

    for( int j = 0 ; j < keyList.size() ; j++ ) {
        if(initalMap.get(keyList.get(j)).equals(value)) {
            finalMap.put(keyList.get(j),value);
        }   
    }
}
System.out.println("fianl map ---------------------->  " + finalMap);