How do I use Comparator to define a custom sort order?

Question

I want to develop a sorting demo for car list. I am using data table to display car list. Now actually I want to sort the list by car color. Here it is not sort by alphabeti

Answer 1

I think this can be done as follows:

class ColorComparator implements Comparator
{
    private List sortOrder;
    public ColorComparator (List sortOrder){
        this.sortOrder = sortOrder;
    }

    public int compare(CarSort c1, CarSort c2)
    {
        String a1 = c1.getColor();
        String a2 = c2.getColor();
        return sortOrder.indexOf(a1) - sortOrder.indexOf(a2);
     }
 }

For sorting use this:

Collections.sort(carList, new ColorComparator(sortOrder));