Re: Comparable loses its interface powers.
"markspace" <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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Roedy Green wrote:
On 24 Feb 2010 12:49:17 GMT, Thomas Pornin <pornin@bolet.org> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
In your situation, you have to
"know" which instances of Comparable can be compared to each other and
which cannot.
In the old days, so long as each column contained compatible things,
you could just use Comparable.compareTo and all would automagically
sort itself out. Today you get squawking if you do it because, for
example, String no longer implements Comparable, it implements
Comparable<String> which will not cast to Comparable or
Comparable<Object>
I'm pretty sure String will cast to Comparable<String>.
At worst, you can always use the universal Comparator:
public class Comparer implements Comparator<Comparable <?>>
{
public int compare(Comparable<?> o1, Comparable<?> o2)
{
Comparable<Object> oo1 = (Comparable<Object>) o1;
return oo1.compareTo(o2);
}
}
This acts exactly like Java 1.4: it will compare any two objects, quite
possibly leading to a runtime exception.
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