Question

Is there a elegant way of obtaining only one Entry<K,V> from HashMap, without iterating, if key is not known.

As order of entry of entry is not important, can we say something like

hashMapObject.get(zeroth_index);

Although I am aware that there exist no such get by index method.

If I tried approach mentioned below, it would still have to get all the entry set of the hashmap.

for(Map.Entry<String, String> entry : MapObj.entrySet()) {
    return entry;
}

Suggestions are welcome.

EDIT: Please suggest any other Data Structure to suffice requirement.

Answer 1

The answer by Jesper is good. An other solution is to use TreeMap (you asked for other data structures).

TreeMap<String, String> myMap = new TreeMap<String, String>();
String first = myMap.firstEntry().getValue();
String firstOther = myMap.get(myMap.firstKey());

TreeMap has an overhead so HashMap is faster, but just as an example of an alternative solution.