How to convert a HashMap of Objects into an ArrayList of Strings

You have to do it in steps:

1. Iterate over the Map keys or get the Map values as Collection and iterate over that.
2. Parse each value's comma separated value String into individual tokens and add them to the List or Set of values you want.
3. Sort the List of values once you have it.

Use a Set if you'd rather not have duplicates.

Looks like JSON. Are you using JSONSimple? Perhaps you should be.

Here's an example.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * MapToArrayExample
 * User: mduffy
 * Date: 6/24/2015
 * Time: 3:17 PM
 * @link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31034737/how-to-convert-a-hashmap-of-objects-into-an-arraylist-of-strings/31034794?noredirect=1#comment50094533_31034794
 */
public class MapToArrayExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Map<Integer, String> data = new HashMap<Integer, String>() {{
            put(1, "3, 2, 3, 3, 1");
            put(2, "4, 5, 5, 6, 7");
        }};
        List<String> result = parseMapOfJson(data);
        System.out.println(result);
    }

    public static List<String> parseMapOfJson(Map<Integer, String> map) {
        List<String> values = new ArrayList<String>();
        for (Integer key : map.keySet()) {
            String csv = map.get(key);
            String [] tokens = csv.split(",");
            for (String token : tokens) {
                values.add(token.trim());
            }
        }
        Collections.sort(values);
        return values;
    }
}

Ok, I got it, it is like this:

idsAlunos = "";

for (Iterator<Map.Entry<String, GPSEscolas>> it = aMap.entrySet().iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
   Map.Entry<String, GPSEscolas> entry = it.next();

   String id_escola = entry.getKey();
   String ids_aluno = entry.getValue().getAlunos();

   idsAlunos += ";" + ids_aluno;

   String[] array = idsAlunos.substring(1).split(";");

   list = new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(array));

}

System.out.println(list);

and that gives me what I want, which is: [4,5,1,2,3]

Try this:

    HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
    map.put("1", "1;2;3");
    map.put("2", "4;5");

    Set<String> checked = new TreeSet<String>();

    for (Iterator i = map.entrySet().iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
        Map.Entry<String, String> e = (Map.Entry<String, String>) i.next();
        checked.addAll(Arrays.asList(e.getValue().split("\\s*;\\s*")));
    }
    System.out.println(checked);