java集合比较对象,使用java集合比较和排序不同类型的对象

How to compare and sort different type of objects using java Collections .Below is the use case:

For example DOG,MAN,TREE, COMPUTER,MACHINE - all these different objects has a common property say "int lifeTime". Now I want to order these obects based on the lifeTime property

Thx

解决方案

All of these objects should have a common abstract class/interface such as Alive with a method getLifeTime(), and you could have either Alive extends Comparable or create your own Comparator.

public abstract class Alive extends Comparable{

public abstract int getLifeTime();

public int compareTo(Alive alive){

return 0; // Or a negative number or a positive one based on the getLifeTime() method

}

}

Or

public interface Alive {

int getLifeTime();

}

public class AliveComparator implements Comparator{

public int compare(Alive alive1, Alive alive2){

return 0; // Or a negative number or a positive one based on the getLifeTime() method

}

}

After that the next step is to use either an automatically sorted collection (TreeSet) or sort a List with Collections.sort().

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