I have an application where a user provides me with the name of a field, e.g name
or costInCents
, and I have to sort by that field. I have ways of guaranteeing that the field name will be correct. This application causes the complication that I simply cannot make my class Comparable
and implement a specific compareTo()
, since with a custom implementation of compareTo()
I need to know which fields / methods to use at implementation time.
So to achieve this goal, I am trying to use reflection in order to match the field to its accessor. Here's a MWE of what I want to do.
Class Product
is a simple POJO class whose instances I want to pairwise compare:
public class Product
{
final String name;
final Integer quantity;
final Long costInCents;
public Product(final String name, final Integer quantity, final Long costInCents)
{
this.name = name;
this.quantity = quantity;
this.costInCents = costInCents;
}
public String getName()
{
return name;
}
public Integer getQuantity()
{
return quantity;
}
public Long getCostInCents()
{
return costInCents;
}
}
And my Main
class, which is currently incomplete:
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
final Product[] productArray =
{
new Product("Clorox wipes", 50, 700L),
new Product("Desk chair", 10, 12000L),
new Product("TV", 5, 30000L),
new Product("Bookcase", 5, 12000L),
new Product("Water bottle", 20, 700L),
};
// The following void methods are supposed to sort in-place with something like Arrays.sort() or Collections.sort(),
// but I am also open to solutions involving stuff like Stream::sorted() or similar ones, which return a sorted array.
sortByField(productArray, "costInCents");
sortByField(productArray, "name");
}
private void sortByField(final Product[] productArray, final String sorterFieldName)
{
final Field sorterField = getSorterField(sorterFieldName, LiteProduct.class); // Gets the Field somehow
final Method sorterAccessor = getSorterAccessor(sorterField, LiteProduct.class); // Given the Field, this is easy
Arrays.sort((Product p1, Product p2)->((Comparable<?>)sorterAccessor.invoke(p1)).compareTo(sorterAccessor.invoke(p2)) > 0); // Capture of ? instead of Object
}
}
Unfortunately, the Arrays.sort()
line results in a compile-time error with message Capture of ? instead of Object
. I have tried casting the second argument to Comparable<?>
, Comparable<? super sorterField.getType()
, etc, with no luck. Ideas?
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