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Comparable and comparator in Java

Source : Peter Date : 2012-07-04 12:06:15

Comparable and comparator are two similar interfaces used to compare objects in Java. When we want to sort a list of objects such as Employee or User etc, we may need to implement these interfaces to make them comparable as we want. However, there are some differences between comparable and comparator interface.

Comparable

A comparable object is capable of comparing itself with another object. The class itself must implements the java.lang.Comparable interface in order to be able to compare its instances.

Comparator

A comparator object is capable of comparing two different objects. The class is not comparing its instances, but some other class’s instances. This comparator class must implement the java.util.Comparator interface.

To help you understand this, we use two examples.

Comparable

import java.util.Arrays;

public class User implements Comparable<Object> {

    private String id;
    private int age;

    public User(String id, int age) {
        this.id = id;
        this.age = age;
    }

    public int getAge() {
        return age;
    }

    public void setAge(int age) {
        this.age = age;
    }

    public String getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(String id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    @Override
    public int compareTo(Object o) {
        return this.age - ((User) o).getAge();
    }

    /**
     * Test method
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        User[] users = new User[] { new User("a", 30), new User("b", 20) };
        Arrays.sort(users);
        for (int i = 0; i < users.length; i++) {
            User user = users[i];
            System.out.println(user.getId() + " " + user.getAge());
        }
    }
}

Comparator

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;

public class MyComparator implements Comparator<Object> {

    @Override
    public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
        return toInt(o1) - toInt(o2);
    }

    private int toInt(Object o) {
        String str = (String) o;
        str = str.replaceAll("One", "1");
        str = str.replaceAll("Two", "2");
        str = str.replaceAll("Three", "3");
        return Integer.parseInt(str);
    }

    /**
     * Test method
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String[] array = new String[] { "One", "Three", "Two" };
        Arrays.sort(array, new MyComparator());
        for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
            System.out.println(array[i]);
        }
    }
}

Reference : http://zhanghu198901.iteye.com/blog/1575164

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