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

I'm assuming by 'position' you're referring to the order in which you've inserted the elements into the HashMap. In that case you want to be using a LinkedHashMap. The LinkedHashMap doesn't offer an accessor method however; you will need to write one like

public Object getElementAt(LinkedHashMap map, int index) {
    for (Map.Entry entry : map.entrySet()) {
        if (index-- == 0) {
            return entry.value();
        }
    }
    return null;
}