Groovy list.sort by first, second then third elements

Question

I have a groovy list of lists i.e.

list = [[2, 0, 1], [1, 5, 2], [1, 0, 3]]

I would like sort it by order of the first element, then second, th

Answer 1

you can use kobo-commons' CollectionUtils library.

https://github.com/kobo/kobo-commons/wiki/sort-by-multiple-keys

import org.jggug.kobo.commons.lang.CollectionUtils

CollectionUtils.extendMetaClass()


list = [[2, 0, 1], [1, 5, 2], [1, 0, 3]]
list = list.sort{ [ it[0], it[1], it[2] ]} // sort by multiple keys
assert list == [[1, 0, 3], [1, 5, 2], [2, 0, 1]]

list2 = [ [name:"a", age:13], [name:"a",age:15], [name:"b", age:13] ]
list2 = list2.sort{[it.name, it.age] } // sort by name and age
assert list2 == [[name:"a", age:13], [name:"a", age:15], [name:"b", age:13]]