Re: Comparable interface

From:

"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:11:27 GMT

Message-ID:

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Chanchal wrote:
...

this is the code i have written

Please read my original message again, carefully.
If there is anything that I did not make clear about
helping the reader, feel free to ask.
...

in this case if i do not return some thing even in the case of
throwing the exception, i have to retrn some value. otherwise the
class wont compile.

I do not quite understand what the problem is. Your
code was almost there. Here is an example of code
that compiles, and runs..

<sscce>
class ReportObject implements Comparable {

    int positionNumber;

    ReportObject(int positionNumber) {
        this.positionNumber = positionNumber;
    }

    public int compareTo(Object obj){
        ReportObject rObj;
        if(obj instanceof ReportObject ){
            rObj = (ReportObject)obj;

            if(this.positionNumber < rObj.getPositionNumber()){
                return -1;
            }else if(this.positionNumber == rObj.getPositionNumber()){
                return 0;
            }else if(this.positionNumber > rObj.getPositionNumber()){
                return 1;
            }

        }else{
            throw new ClassCastException(this +
             " is not comparable to " + obj );
        }
        return -2;
    }

    public int getPositionNumber() {
        return positionNumber;
    }

    public String toString() {
        return "ReportObject: " + getPositionNumber();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ReportObject reportObject1 = new ReportObject(1);
        ReportObject reportObject2 = new ReportObject(2);
        Object object = new Object();

        try {
            System.out.println( reportObject2.compareTo(reportObject1) );
            System.out.println( reportObject1.compareTo(reportObject2) );
            System.out.println( reportObject2.compareTo(reportObject2) );
            System.out.println( reportObject2.compareTo(object) );
        } catch(ClassCastException cce) {
            System.out.println( cce.getMessage() );
        }
    }
}
</sscce>

HTH

--
Andrew Thompson
http://www.athompson.info/andrew/

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