Selecting random key and value sets from a Map in Java

Question

I want to get random keys and their respective values from a Map. The idea is that a random generator would pick a key and display that value. The tricky part is that both k

Answer 1

Use reservoir sampling to select a list of random keys, then insert them into a map (along with their corresponding values in the source map.)

This way you do not need to copy the whole keySet into an array, only the selected keys.

public static <K, V>Map<K, V> sampleFromMap(Map<? extends K, ? extends V> source, int n, Random rnd) {
    List<K> chosenKeys = new ArrayList<K>();
    int count = 0;
    for (K k: source.keySet()) {
        if (count++ < n) {
            chosenKeys.add(k);
            if (count == n) {
                Collections.shuffle(chosenKeys, rnd);
            }
        } else {
            int pos = rnd.nextInt(count);
            if (pos < n) {
                chosenKeys.set(pos, k);
            }
        }
    }
    Map<K, V> result = new HashMap<K, V>();
    for (K k: chosenKeys) {
        result.put(k, source.get(k));
    }
    return Collections.unmodifiableMap(result);
}

Answer 2

In some cases you might want to preserve an order you put the elements in the Set,
In such scenario you can use, This 

Set<Integer> alldocsId = new HashSet<>();
            for (int i=0;i<normalized.length;i++)
            {
                String sql = "SELECT DISTINCT movieID FROM postingtbl WHERE term=?";
                PreparedStatement prepstm = conn.prepareStatement(sql);
                prepstm.setString(1,normalized[i]);
                ResultSet rs = prepstm.executeQuery();
                while (rs.next())
                {
                    alldocsId.add(rs.getInt("MovieID"));
                }
                prepstm.close();
            }

        List<Integer> alldocIDlst = new ArrayList<>();
        Iterator it = alldocsId.iterator();
        while (it.hasNext())
        {
            alldocIDlst.add(Integer.valueOf(it.next().toString()));
        }