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

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

其他回答

如果我们必须基于多个字段对Person对象进行排序,则相同的代码实现在这里。

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;

public class Person {

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

public String getFirstName() {
    return firstName;
}

public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
    this.firstName = firstName;
}

public String getLastName() {
    return lastName;
}

public void setLastName(String lastName) {
    this.lastName = lastName;
}

public int getAge() {
    return age;
}

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

public Person(String firstName, String lastName, int age) {
    this.firstName = firstName;
    this.lastName = lastName;
    this.age = age;
}


static class PersonSortingComparator implements Comparator<Person> {

    @Override
    public int compare(Person person1, Person person2) {

        // for first name comparison
        int firstNameCompare = person1.getFirstName().compareTo(person2.getFirstName());

        // for last name comparison
        int lastNameCompare = person1.getLastName().compareTo(person2.getLastName());

        // for last name comparison
        int ageCompare = person1.getAge() - person2.getAge();

        // Now comparing
        if (firstNameCompare == 0) {
            if (lastNameCompare == 0) {
                return ageCompare;
            }
            return lastNameCompare;
        }
        return firstNameCompare;
    }
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Person person1 = new Person("Ajay", "Kumar", 27);
    Person person2 = new Person("Ajay","Gupta", 23);
    Person person3 = new Person("Ajay","Kumar", 22);


    ArrayList<Person> persons = new ArrayList<>();
    persons.add(person1);
    persons.add(person2);
    persons.add(person3);


    System.out.println("Before Sorting:\n");
    for (Person person : persons) {
        System.out.println(person.firstName + " " + person.lastName + " " + person.age);
    }

    Collections.sort(persons, new PersonSortingComparator());

    System.out.println("After Sorting:\n");
    for (Person person : persons) {
        System.out.println(person.firstName + " " + person.lastName + " " + person.age);
    }
}

}

另一个可以考虑的选项是Apache Commons。它提供了很多选项。

import org.apache.commons.lang3.builder.CompareToBuilder;

Ex:

public int compare(Person a, Person b){

   return new CompareToBuilder()
     .append(a.getName(), b.getName())
     .append(a.getAddress(), b.getAddress())
     .toComparison();
}
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();
    }

}

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);
}

从Steve的回答开始,三元操作符可以使用:

public int compareTo(Person other) {
    int f = firstName.compareTo(other.firstName);
    int l = lastName.compareTo(other.lastName);
    return f != 0 ? f : l != 0 ? l : Integer.compare(age, other.age);
}