Re: Sort Map on Value

From:
Wojtek <nowhere@a.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:27:11 -0700
Message-ID:
<mn.d1bf7d98d8b82b4b.70216@a.com>
Lew wrote :

Wojtek wrote:

Ok, so this should work then:

class PersonMapKey implements Comparable<PersonMapKey>
{
 private String ivKey;
 private String ivName;

 PersonMapKey( String key, String name )
 {
   super();


This idiom puzzles me. Why call 'super()' explicitly? Particularly since
the class extends 'Object'?


Coding fluff. I know that super() is called implicitly, however I
always put it in.

   ivKey = key;
   ivName = name;
 }

 private String getKey()
 {
   return ivKey;
 }

 private String getName()
 {
   return ivName;
 }

 @Override
 public int hashCode()
 {
   return ivKey.hashCode();
 }

 @Override
 public boolean equals( Object key )
 {
   return ivKey.equals( ((PersonMapKey) key).getKey() );
 }

 @Override
 public int compareTo( PersonMapKey personKey )
 {
   return ivName.compareTo( personKey.getName() );
 }


Is this consistent with 'equals()'?


No, it is consistent with compareTo() as per the interface.

}
...


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