Add support for `WRITE_SORTED_MAP_ENTRIES` for Guava `Multimap`s about jackson-datatypes-collections HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi, I was going to take a look at this as my first time contributing. I think i can re-create this as a failing test by creating a HashMultimap and inserting keys such as key-0, key-1, key-2. Then i configure the objectmapper with SerializationFeature.ORDER_MAP_ENTRIES_BY_KEYS, true. Then on serialization, the json should maintain the keys natural ordering but it doesn't currently.

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That sounds good. Alternatively if there is insertion-order-retaining variant, that might be best for repeatable test case; although if hash order is stable enough that should work.

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There is a comment where this should be plugged in MultimapSerializer. I was thinking of doing
ImmutableSetMultimap<?, ? extends Collection<?>> immutableSortedMultimap = ImmutableSortedMap.copyOf(value.asMap()).asMultimap();

Where value is passed in is a HashMultimap - the map is a String -> HashSet

after the sorting immutableSortedMultimap has a wrapped structure. the value is a SingletonImmutableSet with the value being a set of a set. And the _valueSerializer is set to StringCollectionSerializer Perhaps this is the wrong strategy to tackle this problem?

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I haven't looked into this, and do not remember how Guava Multimaps work. Maybe someone else can help here.

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