假设你有一些对象,它们有几个字段可以比较:

public class Person {

    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;
    private String age;

    /* Constructors */

    /* Methods */

}

所以在这个例子中,当你问if:

a.compareTo(b) > 0

你可能会问a的姓是不是在b的姓之前,或者a的年龄是不是比b大,等等……

在不增加不必要的混乱或开销的情况下,在这些类型的对象之间进行多重比较的最干净的方法是什么?

comparable接口只允许通过一个字段进行比较 在我看来,添加大量的比较方法(如compareByFirstName(), compareByAge()等)是混乱的。

那么最好的解决办法是什么呢?


当前回答

import com.google.common.collect.ComparisonChain;

/**
 * @author radler
 * Class Description ...
 */
public class Attribute implements Comparable<Attribute> {

    private String type;
    private String value;

    public String getType() { return type; }
    public void setType(String type) { this.type = type; }

    public String getValue() { return value; }
    public void setValue(String value) { this.value = value; }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Attribute [type=" + type + ", value=" + value + "]";
    }

    @Override
    public int compareTo(Attribute that) {
        return ComparisonChain.start()
            .compare(this.type, that.type)
            .compare(this.value, that.value)
            .result();
    }

}

其他回答

使用java8:

Comparator.comparing((Person p)->p.firstName)
          .thenComparing(p->p.lastName)
          .thenComparingInt(p->p.age);

如果你有访问方法:

Comparator.comparing(Person::getFirstName)
          .thenComparing(Person::getLastName)
          .thenComparingInt(Person::getAge);

如果一个类实现Comparable,那么这个比较器可以用在compareTo方法中:

@Override
public int compareTo(Person o){
    return Comparator.comparing(Person::getFirstName)
              .thenComparing(Person::getLastName)
              .thenComparingInt(Person::getAge)
              .compare(this, o);
}

它很容易做到使用谷歌的番石榴库。

例如对象。equals (name, name2) &&对象。Equal (age, age2) &&…

更多的例子:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/5039178/1180621

在java中使用hashcode方法比较两个对象很容易。

public class Sample{

  String a=null;
  String b=null;

  public Sample(){
      a="s";
      b="a";
  }
  public Sample(String a,String b){
      this.a=a;
      this.b=b;
  }
  public static void main(String args[]){
      Sample f=new Sample("b","12");
      Sample s=new Sample("b","12");
      //will return true
      System.out.println((s.a.hashCode()+s.b.hashCode())==(f.a.hashCode()+f.b.hashCode()));

      //will return false
      Sample f=new Sample("b","12");
      Sample s=new Sample("b","13");
      System.out.println((s.a.hashCode()+s.b.hashCode())==(f.a.hashCode()+f.b.hashCode()));

}
//here threshold,buyRange,targetPercentage are three keys on that i have sorted my arraylist 
final Comparator<BasicDBObject> 

    sortOrder = new Comparator<BasicDBObject>() {
                    public int compare(BasicDBObject e1, BasicDBObject e2) {
                        int threshold = new Double(e1.getDouble("threshold"))
                        .compareTo(new Double(e2.getDouble("threshold")));
                        if (threshold != 0)
                            return threshold;

                        int buyRange = new Double(e1.getDouble("buyRange"))
                        .compareTo(new Double(e2.getDouble("buyRange")));
                        if (buyRange != 0)
                            return buyRange;

                        return (new Double(e1.getDouble("targetPercentage")) < new Double(
                                e2.getDouble("targetPercentage")) ? -1 : (new Double(
                                        e1.getDouble("targetPercentage")) == new Double(
                                                e2.getDouble("targetPercentage")) ? 0 : 1));
                    }
                };
                Collections.sort(objectList, sortOrder);

要连续排序多个字段,请尝试ComparatorChain

A ComparatorChain is a Comparator that wraps one or more Comparators in sequence. The ComparatorChain calls each Comparator in sequence until either 1) any single Comparator returns a non-zero result (and that result is then returned), or 2) the ComparatorChain is exhausted (and zero is returned). This type of sorting is very similar to multi-column sorting in SQL, and this class allows Java classes to emulate that kind of behaviour when sorting a List. To further facilitate SQL-like sorting, the order of any single Comparator in the list can >be reversed. Calling a method that adds new Comparators or changes the ascend/descend sort after compare(Object, Object) has been called will result in an UnsupportedOperationException. However, take care to not alter the underlying List of Comparators or the BitSet that defines the sort order. Instances of ComparatorChain are not synchronized. The class is not thread-safe at construction time, but it is thread-safe to perform multiple comparisons after all the setup operations are complete.