[ajug-members] Help again

[Brian Lee]

Note that if you want to sort custom objects, you should probably use the 
commons-beanutil org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanComparator class and the 
commons-collections org.apache.commons.collections.comparators package. No 
need to write it all yourself.

Check out http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/ for more info.

BAL

>From: Angus Berry <angus.berry at elken.com>
>To: "General AJUG membership forum (100-200 
>messages/month)"<ajug-members at ajug.org>
>Subject: Re: [ajug-members] Help again
>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:27:48 -0400
>
>Mike,
>
>I'm a little late in the game here.. but you'll need to implement the
>java.lang.Comparable interface on the class the you want to sort, then
>add a compareTo method that returns an int. This is well documented
>on-line and in most decent Java books.
>
>A very useful thing about your compareTo method is that you can use 'if'
>statements to get fine grained control over your sort based on the
>properties of the object being sorted.
>
>Suppose you had a 'Person' object, with firstName, lastName, dateOfBirth
>properties. You could set your compareTo method to produce sort that
>would sort by:
>
>yearOnly(extracted from the dateOfBirth), lastName, firstName
>or
>dateofBirth, lastName
>
>etc., etc.
>
>You can control ascending & descending sorts also. I do this in the case
>where I need my objects sorted by date with the most recent being first
>in my iteration for display.
>
>One final note regarding optimization. If it's at all possible, it's
>'generally' going to be more efficient if you can retrieve your objects
>in a presorted order from your persistence mechanism to an ordered
>collection, as databases are generally, natively good at this type of
>operation. In my case an OQL query in my ORM layer can achieve this and
>I only need to sort my retrieved collection in certain cases.
>
>Angus
>
>
>On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 20:23, Barnes, Michael D wrote:
> > I need to be able to sort a hashmap  when I iterate through the data.
> >
> > What is the best way to do this?
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike Barnes
> >
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