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How can I iterate over a map of <String, POJO>?

I've got a Map<String, Person> (actually I'm using a more complex POJO but simplifying it for the sake of my question)

Person looks like : 

class Person
{
  String name;
  Integer age;

  //accessors
}

How can I iterate through this map, printing out the key, then the person name, then the person age such as : 

System.out.println(String.format("Key : %s Name : %s Age : %s", a, b, c));
  • A being the key from Map<String, Person>
  • B being the name from Person.getName()
  • C being the age from Person.getAge()

I can pull all of the values from the map using .values() as detailed in the HashMap docs, but I'm a bit unsure of how I can get the keys

Solution

  • What about entrySet()

    HashMap<String, Person> hm = new HashMap<String, Person>();

hm.put("A", new Person("p1"));
hm.put("B", new Person("p2"));
hm.put("C", new Person("p3"));
hm.put("D", new Person("p4"));
hm.put("E", new Person("p5"));

Set<Map.Entry<String, Person>> set = hm.entrySet();

for (Map.Entry<String, Person> me : set) {
  System.out.println("Key :"+me.getKey() +" Name : "+ me.getValue().getName()+"Age :"+me.getValue().getAge());

}