Program to sort Employee list on basis of name in ascending order by implementing Comparable interface and overriding its compareTo method

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
class Employee implements Comparable<Employee>{
   String name;
   String id;
   public Employee(String name, String id) {
       this.name = name;
       this.id = id;
   }
  
   @Override
   public int compareTo(Employee otherEmployee) {
      //sort Employee on basis of name(ascending order)
      return this.name.compareTo(otherEmployee.name);
   }
   // toString() method overrides Object class’s toString() method.
   // toString() method is used to give a string representation of an object.
   @Override
   public String toString() {
       return "Employee{" + "name=" + name + ", id=" + id  + '}';
   }
}
/**
* @author AnkitMittal
* Copyright (c), AnkitMittal JavaMadeSoEasy.com
* Main class
*/
public class ComparableUsage {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       Employee emp1=new Employee("sam","4");
       Employee emp2=new Employee("amy","2");
       Employee emp3=new Employee("brad","1");

       ArrayList<Employee> list=new ArrayList<Employee>();
       list.add(emp1);
       list.add(emp2);
       list.add(emp3);
     
       System.out.println("list Before sorting : \n"+list);
       Collections.sort(list);
       System.out.println("\nlist after sorting on basis of name(ascending order) : \n"+list);
      
   }
}
/*OUTPUT
list Before sorting :
[Employee{name=sam, id=4}, Employee{name=amy, id=2}, Employee{name=brad, id=1}]
list after sorting on basis of name(ascending order) :
[Employee{name=amy, id=2}, Employee{name=brad, id=1}, Employee{name=sam, id=4}]
*/

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