> On May 1, 2017, at 4:33 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
I wonder if we would want to wait until Java 9 general availability to make
such a statement. But that also may be arbitrary.
-Rob
> 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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