Java Comparator class to sort particular object array

Question

I have a float array and a String array. each float value match with a specific String. I would like to sort the float array keeping the own string using :

Answer 1

You need to implement the Comparator interface. You can create multiple sort sequences while using Comparator.

Suppose you want to sort your array according to your ranking, then create a separate class which implements Comparator

public Class RankingSorter implements Comparator {
   public int compare(ResultVoiceObject one, ResultVoiceObject another){
       return (int)(one.getRanking() - another.getRanking());
   }
}

Then in the new class that you want to sort your array, You create the object of the comparator and pass it to collection

RankingSorter rs = new RankingSorter();
Collections.sort(yourArray, rs);

This is the overloaded version of sort method which takes the comparator.

I had written a full tutorial regarding this a while ago http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/174322-the-comparable-and-comparator-interface-part-ii/

Here is the ResultVoicObject class

package com.compare;

public class ResultVoiceObject {

private String frase;
private float ranking;

public ResultVoiceObject(String f, float r) {
    this.frase = f;
    this.ranking = r;
}

public String getFrase() {
    return frase;
}

public void setFrase(String frase) {
    this.frase = frase;
}

public float getRanking() {
    return ranking;
}

public void setRanking(float ranking) {
    this.ranking = ranking;
}

@Override
public String toString() {
    return "ResultVoiceObject [frase=" + frase + ", ranking=" + ranking
            + "]";
}

}

Implement the Comparator interface as follows, you need to implement compare method

 package com.compare;

 import java.util.Comparator;

  public class RankingSort implements Comparator {

public int compare(ResultVoiceObject one, ResultVoiceObject another){
    return (int) (one.getRanking() - another.getRanking());
}
  }

You can test it as below.

 package com.compare;

 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;

 public class RankingSorterTest{

public static void main(String [] args){

    ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
    list.add(new ResultVoiceObject("one", 1));
    list.add(new ResultVoiceObject("five", 5));
    list.add(new ResultVoiceObject("three", 3));

    Collections.sort(list,new RankingSort());
    System.out.println(list);

}
  }

If you want to create a sorting sequence using frase, then you just need to create a new comparator class for it and sort just as I have sorted above

Hope this helps... took a lot of efforts from me also :D :D