True. I wonder if we need to make some kind of documented statement that we
will not provide utils for things easily done in Java 8?
Gary
On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is dead easy in Java 8:
>
> Comparator.comparing(Object::toString)
>
> Granted, you have to do a little more for null handling, but I'm not sure
> it's worth writing out a class definition in this form. If we are intending
> to cater to pre Java 8 clients, okay, but it seems a little late in the
> game to me.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On May 1, 2017 2:46 PM, "Gary Gregory" <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All:
>
> Do you think this is general enough for [lang]?
>
> /**
> * Implements {@code Comparator<Object>} using toString()s.
> *
> */
> public final class ObjectToStringComparator implements Comparator<Object>,
> Serializable {
>
> private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
>
> @Override
> public int compare(final Object o1, final Object o2) {
> if (o1 == null && o2 == null) {
> return 0;
> }
> if (o1 == null) {
> return 1;
> }
> if (o2 == null) {
> return -1;
> }
> return o1.toString().compareTo(o2.toString());
> }
> }
>
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