Is it possible to get element from HashMap by its position?

Question

How to retrieve an element from HashMap by its position, is it possible at all?

Answer 1

If you, for some reason, have to stick with the hashMap, you can convert the keySet to an array and index the keys in the array to get the values in the map like so:

Object[] keys = map.keySet().toArray();

You can then access the map like:

map.get(keys[i]);

Answer 2

You can try to implement something like that, look at:

Map<String, Integer> map = new LinkedHashMap<String, Integer>();
map.put("juan", 2);
map.put("pedro", 3);
map.put("pablo", 5);
map.put("iphoncio",9)

List<String> indexes = new ArrayList<String>(map.keySet()); // <== Parse

System.out.println(indexes.indexOf("juan"));     // ==> 0
System.out.println(indexes.indexOf("iphoncio"));      // ==> 3

I hope this works for you.