After sorting List in ascending and descending order i want to invoke binarySearch method. But it not working as i have implemented comparable.
I could have done this by implementing comparator but i have such requirement in my project Please guide me.
Nakul P. Patel wrote:After sorting List in ascending and descending order i want to invoke binarySearch method. But it not working as i have implemented comparable.
Are you sure about that? It looks to me as though you're just not calling it properly.
It's probably also worth mentioning that if you're using Comparators, you have to invoke it with the same Comparator that was used to sort.
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K. Tsang wrote:Comparable returns a int -1, 0 or 1. Zero is equals, -1 if input1 is bigger, and 1 if input2 is bigger.
In your code, you should do a < or > comparison instead of the difference.
Not true. The return value is < 0, 0 or > 0. The < 0 doesn't have to be -1, and the > 0 doesn't have to be 1. Unless the subtraction leads to overflow, it's a valid implementation.
The "not true" was meant for the -1, 0 or 1. I shouldn't have quoted that last sentence, because you should use < and > -- not inside compareTo but for the result of it.