displaying key of a hashmap,wrong order

[biswajit goswami]

hi,
A hashmap is a form attribute(say mapObject) and contains two key value pairs,say{(a,0),(b,0)}.....sorted
i am displaying the key in jsp by:
<logic:iterate id="map" name="myForm" property="mapObject">
<bean:write name="map" property="key"/>
</logic:iterate>


o/p:
b
a

ok,modify the map.........{(a,0),(b,0),(c,0)}

o/p:
b
c
a


its seems that the key is picked from the map randomly,although its sorted there.

can anyone throw light??

[biswajit goswami]

its solved..........use
HashMap map=new LinkedHashMap();

[Christophe Verré]

although its sorted there

Why do you think there are sorted ? Do you think the items are magically sorted for you ? Or are actually calling something like Collections.sort ?

[biswajit goswami]

that part was already done......sorted resultset populates the map

[Devesh H Rao]

Originally posted by biswajit goswami:
that part was already done......sorted resultset populates the map

From Java API

Hash table based implementation of the Map interface. This implementation provides all of the optional map operations, and permits null values and the null key. (The HashMap class is roughly equivalent to Hashtable, except that it is unsynchronized and permits nulls.) This class makes no guarantees as to the order of the map; in particular, it does not guarantee that the order will remain constant over time.

The sort is lost when the data is set in the hashmap, you need to explicitly sort the collection or use some other container than a hash[map,table] to store the data as the order can be lost.