Sorting list based on another list's order [duplicate]

问题

I need to sort a list of Person objects(List<Person>, where each Person object has few attributes like id(unique), name, age… etc).

The sorting order is based on another list. That list contains a set of Person id's (A List<String> which is already sorted).

What is the best way to order the List<Person> in the same order as the list of id's using Kotlin or Java.

Example:

List Person {
(“ID1”,”PERSON1”,22,..), (“ID-2”,”PERSON2”,20,..) ), (“ID-3”,”PERSON3”,19,..),…..
}

Ordered Id List:

List of ID {(“ID2”), (“ID1”),(”ID3”)….}

Sorted Person list should be:

List PERSON {
 (“ID-2”,”PERSON 2”,20,..) ), (“ID1”,”PERSON 2”,22,..),  (“ID-3”,”PERSON 2”,19,..),…..
}

If the Person list contains any id's which are not mentioned in the id list then those values should be at the end of the sorted list.

Edited: This is my current way in Java. I am hoping for a better way than this:

public static List<Person> getSortList(List <Person> unsortedList, List<String> orderList){

    if(unsortedList!=null && !unsortedList.isEmpty() && orderList!=null && !orderList.isEmpty()){
        List sortedList = new ArrayList<OpenHABWidget>();
        for(String id : orderList){
            Person found= getPersonIfFound(unsortedList, id); // search for the item on the list by ID
            if(found!=null)sortedList.add(found);       // if found add to sorted list
            unsortedList.remove(found);        // remove added item
        }
        sortedList.addAll(unsortedList);        // append the reaming items on the unsorted list to new sorted list
        return sortedList;
    }
    else{
        return unsortedList;
    }

}

public static Person getPersonIfFound(List <Person> list, String key){
    for(Person person : list){
        if(person.getId().equals(key)){
            return person;
        }
    }
    return null;
}

回答1:

An efficient solution is to first create the mapping from the ID in the ids (your desired IDs order) to the index in that list:

val orderById = ids.withIndex().associate { it.value to it.index }

And then sort your list of people by the order of their id in this mapping:

val sortedPeople = people.sortedBy { orderById[it.id] }

Note: if a person has an ID that is not present in the ids, they will be placed first in the list. To place them last, you can use a nullsLast comparator:

val sortedPeople = people.sortedWith(compareBy(nullsLast<String>) { orderById[it.id] })

回答2:

I would do something like (in pseudocode, since i don't know what your code looks like)

listOfPersons = [{2,Bob},{3,Claire},{1,Alice}]
orderList = [1,3,2]
sortedList = []
for(id in orderList)
    person = listOfPersons.lookup(id)
    sortedList.add(person)

And the lookup would be easier if you would have a map (id-> person) rather than a listOfPersons.

回答3:

Try the below code.

 Map<String, Person> personMap=new HashMap<>(); // create a map with key as ID and value as Person object
List<String> orderList=new ArrayList<>();  // create a list or array with ID order
List<Person> outputList=new ArrayList<>(); //list to hold sorted values

//logic

    // to sort Person based on ID list order
    for (String order : orderList) {
      if(personMap.containsKey(order)){
        outputList.add(personMap.get(order));
        personMap.remove(order);
      }
    }

  // logic to add the Person object whose id is not present in ID order list
    for (Entry<String, Person> entry : personMap.entrySet())
    {
      int lastIndex=outputList.size();
      outputList.add(lastIndex, entry.getValue());
      lastIndex++;
    }

Now, the outputList will have the values that you are expecting...

回答4:

Following code will convert Person list to a Map where key will be the ID and value will be the Person object itself. This Map will help to quick lookup. Then iterate over the ID's list the get the value from the Map and added to a another List.

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
  // List of ID
  val listId = listOf(2, 1, 3)

  val list = listOf(Person(id = 1, name = "A"),
        Person(id = 2, name = "B"),
        Person(id = 3, name = "C"))

  val map: Map<Int, Person> = list.associateBy ({it.id}, {it})

  val sortedList = mutableListOf<Person>()

  listId.forEach({
      sortedList.add(map[it]!!)
  })

  sortedList.forEach({
     println(it)
  })
}

data class Person(val id: Int, val name: String)

Output

Person(id=2, name=B)
Person(id=1, name=A)
Person(id=3, name=C)

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45349293/sorting-list-based-on-another-lists-order

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