对没有比较器，arraylist或treeset的地图进行排序

Question

After storing the words found on a web page and mapping them with their number of occurrences, how would you sort them by frequency(highest to lowest)?

The only imports I have access to are Arrays, HashMap, HashSet, Map, and Set. I did research on how to do this but it seems like most people suggested using comparators or iterators, which I don't want to implement.

The map is set up as follows: Map found = new HashMap<>();

Here's what I have so far:

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import util.WebDoc;

public class Sorting{

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
String url;

url = “INSERT URL HERE”;

final int numPairs = 30; // maximum number of pairs to print

// get body of the web document
String content = WebDoc.getBodyContent(url); 
String word_pattern = "[A-Za-z]{5,}";
Map<String, Integer> found = new HashMap<>(); // (word,frequency)

Matcher match = Pattern.compile(word_pattern).matcher(content);
int unique = 0;
while (match.find()) {
  String word = match.group().toLowerCase();

  System.out.println(word);  

        if (found.containsKey(word)){
            if (found.get(word)==1)
               unique--;
            found.put(word, found.get(word) +1);
        }
        else{ 
            found.put(word, 1);
            unique++;
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

If you ever change your mind about using basic JDK utilities, here's one way to do it with streams:

List<String> sorted = found.entrySet()
        .stream()
        .sort(Comparator.comparing(Map.Entry::getValue).reversed())
        .map(Map.Entry::getKey)
        .collect(Collectors.toList());

Answer 2

You can't. HashMaps aren't ordered or sorted because the position of its elements are based on object hashes.

There are some good alternatives in this task Sort a Map<Key, Value> by values (Java) .

Please, also check this one: What Java Collection should I use?