Re: Sorting objects
"jamiethehutt" <jamie@annforfungi.co.uk> wrote in message
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I've got to sort an array of my own FileInfo class, FileInfo has a
public variable called weight which I want to sort on. Do I still need
to write an comparable method for FileInfo or can Java do something
like Ruby's sort which would just be
FileDetails.sort {|FileInfo1,FileInfo2| FileInfo1.weight <=>
FileInfo2.weight}
Basically can I sort this without changing the FileInfo class? I'm only
going to sort the list once so it seems like I'm making the FileInfo
class more complex for little reason.
You simply create the comparator on the fly.
Collections.sort (List fileDetails, new Comparator () {
public int compare (Object o1, Object o2) {
FileInfo f1 = (FileInfo)o1;
FileInfo f2 = (FileInfo)o2;
// Do your comparison (longer test needed for primitives)
return f1.weight.compareTo (f2.weight)
}
});
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