I have a statement:
searchResults.sort(Comparator.comparing(WCCTableRowData::getD));
where getD is an accessor in the class WCCTableRowData and searchResults is a list of WCCTableRowData. The WCCTableRowData class has accessors from getA through getZ. I need to be able to set the sort field on the fly from a passed in variable. Is there an elegant way to do this or will I need a series of if statements or similar?
UPDATE 1 Unfortunately, neither approach in the accepted answer worked though I think in general the direction is correct. With approach 2 I get:
With approach 1, row.getField does not pick up the getField method in WCCTableRowData class and I get similar "does not conform to upper bound(s)" error. I think the error is saying that WCCTableRowData class has to implement Comparable?
One way is to add a method in WCCTableRowData
that can be given a field name and returns the value of that field.
class WCCTableRowData {
Comparable<?> getField(String name) { ... }
}
String name = "C";
searchResults.sort(Comparator.comparing(row -> row.getField(name)));
If you don't want to modify the class, then you could set up an external map.
Map<String, Function<WCCTableRowData, Comparable<?>>> getters = new HashMap<>();
getters.put("A", WCCTableRowData::getA);
getters.put("B", WCCTableRowData::getB);
getters.put("C", WCCTableRowData::getC);
String name = "C";
searchResults.sort(Comparator.comparing(getters.get(name)));
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