假设你有一些对象，它们有几个字段可以比较:
public class Person {
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
private String age;
/* Constructors */
/* Methods */
}
所以在这个例子中，当你问if:
a.compareTo(b) > 0
你可能会问a的姓是不是在b的姓之前，或者a的年龄是不是比b大，等等……
在不增加不必要的混乱或开销的情况下，在这些类型的对象之间进行多重比较的最干净的方法是什么?
comparable接口只允许通过一个字段进行比较 在我看来，添加大量的比较方法(如compareByFirstName()， compareByAge()等)是混乱的。
那么最好的解决办法是什么呢?
当前回答
如果实现Comparable接口，则需要选择一个简单的属性进行排序。这就是所谓的自然排序。把它看作默认值。通常在没有提供特定比较器时使用。通常这是名称，但您的用例可能调用不同的东西。您可以自由地使用任何数量的其他比较器，您可以提供给各种集合api来覆盖自然排序。
还要注意，通常如果a.c omareto (b) == 0，则a.c omareto (b) == true。如果没有也没关系，但是有副作用要注意。在Comparable接口上查看优秀的javadocs，您将找到许多关于这方面的有用信息。
其他回答
//here threshold,buyRange,targetPercentage are three keys on that i have sorted my arraylist
final Comparator<BasicDBObject>
sortOrder = new Comparator<BasicDBObject>() {
public int compare(BasicDBObject e1, BasicDBObject e2) {
int threshold = new Double(e1.getDouble("threshold"))
.compareTo(new Double(e2.getDouble("threshold")));
if (threshold != 0)
return threshold;
int buyRange = new Double(e1.getDouble("buyRange"))
.compareTo(new Double(e2.getDouble("buyRange")));
if (buyRange != 0)
return buyRange;
return (new Double(e1.getDouble("targetPercentage")) < new Double(
e2.getDouble("targetPercentage")) ? -1 : (new Double(
e1.getDouble("targetPercentage")) == new Double(
e2.getDouble("targetPercentage")) ? 0 : 1));
}
};
Collections.sort(objectList, sortOrder);
您可以实现一个Comparator来比较两个Person对象，并且可以检查任意数量的字段。你可以在比较器中放入一个变量，告诉它与哪个字段进行比较，尽管只编写多个比较器可能会更简单。
从Steve的回答开始，三元操作符可以使用:
public int compareTo(Person other) {
int f = firstName.compareTo(other.firstName);
int l = lastName.compareTo(other.lastName);
return f != 0 ? f : l != 0 ? l : Integer.compare(age, other.age);
}
要连续排序多个字段，请尝试ComparatorChain
A ComparatorChain is a Comparator that wraps one or more Comparators in sequence. The ComparatorChain calls each Comparator in sequence until either 1) any single Comparator returns a non-zero result (and that result is then returned), or 2) the ComparatorChain is exhausted (and zero is returned). This type of sorting is very similar to multi-column sorting in SQL, and this class allows Java classes to emulate that kind of behaviour when sorting a List. To further facilitate SQL-like sorting, the order of any single Comparator in the list can >be reversed. Calling a method that adds new Comparators or changes the ascend/descend sort after compare(Object, Object) has been called will result in an UnsupportedOperationException. However, take care to not alter the underlying List of Comparators or the BitSet that defines the sort order. Instances of ComparatorChain are not synchronized. The class is not thread-safe at construction time, but it is thread-safe to perform multiple comparisons after all the setup operations are complete.
我认为如果你的比较算法是“聪明的”，那就更令人困惑了。我会选择你建议的众多比较方法。
对我来说唯一的例外就是平等。对于单元测试，重写. equals(在.net中)对我来说很有用，以便确定两个对象之间的几个字段是否相等(而不是引用是否相等)。
