How to handle nulls when using Java collection sort

Question

When using Collection.sort in Java what should I return when one of the inner objects is null

Example:

Collections.sort(list, new Comparator

        

Answer 1

Following the answer from Nikita Rybak, i'm already have a enum comparator, and only add the null logic from here.

public enum Orden implements Comparator {
        ByStrDescripcion {
            public int compare(CmunParametrosDTO item1, CmunParametrosDTO item2) {
                if (item1.getStrDescripcion() == null && item2.getStrDescripcion() == null)
                    return 0;
                if (item1.getStrDescripcion() == null)
                    return 1;
                else if (item2.getStrDescripcion() == null)
                    return -1;
                return item1.getStrDescripcion().compareTo(item2.getStrDescripcion());
            }
        }
        public abstract int compare(CmunParametrosDTO item1, CmunParametrosDTO item2);

        public Comparator ascending() {
            return this;
        }

        public Comparator descending() {
            return Collections.reverseOrder(this);
        }
}

In this form i can call the sort method on my list.

    if(isBolOrdAscendente()) Collections.sort(listado, CmunParametrosDTO.Orden.ByStrDescripcion .ascending());
    else Collections.sort(listado, CmunParametrosDTO.Orden.ByStrDescripcion .descending());