Commons Collections - OrderedMap Interface

OrderedMap is a new interface for maps to retain the order in which elements are added. LinkedMap and ListOrderedMap are two available implementations. This interfaces supports iterator that of Map and allows iteration in both directions either forwards or backwards in a Map. Following example illustrates the same.

Example of MapIterator Interface

An example of OrderedMapTester.java is as given below −

import org.apache.commons.collections4.OrderedMap;
import org.apache.commons.collections4.map.LinkedMap;
public class OrderedMapTester {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      OrderedMap<String, String> map = new LinkedMap<String, String>();
      map.put("One", "1");
      map.put("Two", "2");
      map.put("Three", "3");
      System.out.println(map.firstKey());
      System.out.println(map.nextKey("One"));
      System.out.println(map.nextKey("Two"));
   }
}

Output

The result will be as follows −

One
Two
Three