Part III
接下来让我们看看Comparable和Comparator的强大功力:
1: public class Person implements Comparable<Person> {
2:
3: private String name;
4: private int age;
5:
6: public String getName() {
7: return name;
8: }
9:
10: public void setName(String name) {
11: this.name = name;
12: }
13:
14: public int getAge() {
15: return age;
16: }
17:
18: public void setAge(int age) {
19: this.age = age;
20: }
21:
22: @Override
23: public int compareTo(Person p) {
24: if (this.age > p.age) {
25: return 1;
26: } else if (this.age < p.age) {
27: return -1;
28: }
29: return 0;
30: }
31:
32: }
1: public class CompareTest {
2:
3: public static void main(String[] args) {
4: Person p1 = new Person();
5: p1.setName("P1");
6: p1.setAge(20);
7:
8: Person p2 = new Person();
9: p2.setName("P2");
10: p2.setAge(30);
11:
12: System.out.println(p1.compareTo(p2));
13: }
14:
15: }
运行的结果为:-1
读者看到这里一定会觉得很好笑,我不就实现了一个接口重写了个方法吗?然后又调用这个方法,而这个方法的返回值又是我自己定义的?那实现这个接口有什么意义呢?不实现这个接口我也可以给他一个compareTo的方法啊?而且对运行的结果没有影响!
没错,在这里确实还不能体现出Comparable接口的作用,但是别忘了我们的强大的Java类库,实现了Comparable接口的类当然是要结合类库中的其他类来使用!
下面我们先对Person类进行一下处理,添加了带参的构造器并重写了toString()方法,方便演示程序的运行结果:
1: public class Person implements Comparable<Person> {
2:
3: private String name;
4: private int age;
5:
6: public Person() {
7:
8: }
9:
10: public Person(String name, int age) {
11: this.name = name;
12: this.age = age;
13: }
14:
15: public String getName() {
16: return name;
17: }
18:
19: public void setName(String name) {
20: this.name = name;
21: }
22:
23: public int getAge() {
24: return age;
25: }
26:
27: public void setAge(int age) {
28: this.age = age;
29: }
30:
31: @Override
32: public int compareTo(Person p) {
33: if (this.age > p.age) {
34: return 1;
35: } else if (this.age < p.age) {
36: return -1;
37: }
38: return 0;
39: }
40:
41: @Override
42: public String toString() {
43: return "Person [age=" + age + ", name=" + name + "]";
44: }
45:
46: }
接下来我们定义一个无序的Person对象数组persons,并使用java.utils.Arrays工具类对其进行排序:
1: import java.util.Arrays;
2:
3: public class CompareTest {
4:
5: public static void main(String[] args) {
6: Person[] persons = {
7: new Person("P1", 60),
8: new Person("P2", 20),
9: new Person("P3", 40)
10: };
11:
12: System.out.println(Arrays.toString(persons));
13:
14: Arrays.sort(persons);
15:
16: System.out.println(Arrays.toString(persons));
17: }
18:
19: }
结果如下:
[Person [age=60, name=P1], Person [age=20, name=P2], Person [age=40, name=P3]]
[Person [age=20, name=P2], Person [age=40, name=P3], Person [age=60, name=P1]]
没错,无序的对象数组进过处理后按照age的大小来进行排序,这就是实现Comparable接口所带来的效果。读者如果对此有疑惑,可以尝试不实现Comparable接口,来进行排序。