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Doubt about Treeset

 
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This code compiles fine, but at runtime gives ClassCastException.

Is it because the class Person does not have equals() and hashcode() methods defined ?
 
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Hi,

the problem is that your class Person doesn't implement the Comparable interface. Therefore instances of the Person can't be sorted while adding to the TreeSet.
 
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add() API of TreeSet class
Throws:
ClassCastException - if the specified object cannot be compared with the elements currently in the set.

Your Person class does not implement Comparable interface and implement the comaareTo() of Comparable interface. Hence add() fails to add Person object and throws ClassCastException.

Note that ClassCastException is thrown only when you add more than 2 elements to the set. Its when you add second element, the second element will be compared to the first element, and since the class Person does not implement Comparable interface and hence ClassCastException is thrown.

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