Program to sort Employee list on basis of name and id in ascending order by implementing Comparator interface and overriding its compare method














ComparatorName and ComparatorId are two classes which will implement Comparator to provide sorting on basis of name and id respectively.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
class Employee{
   String name;
   String id;
  
   public Employee() {}
  
   public Employee(String name, String id) {
       this.name = name;
       this.id = id;
   }
  
  
   @Override
   public String toString() {
       return "Employee{" + "name=" + name + ", id=" + id  + '}';
   }
  
}
class ComparatorName implements Comparator<Employee>{
   @Override
   public int compare(Employee obj1, Employee obj2) {
      //sort Employee on basis of name(ascending order)
      return obj1.name.compareTo(obj2.name);
   }
  
}
class ComparatorId implements Comparator<Employee>{
   @Override
   public int compare(Employee obj1, Employee obj2) {
      //sort Employee on basis of id(ascending order)
      return obj1.id.compareTo(obj2.id);
   }
  
}
/**
* @author AnkitMittal
* Copyright (c), AnkitMittal JavaMadeSoEasy.com
* Main class
*/
public class ComparatorUsage {
   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,new ComparatorName());
       System.out.println("\nlist after sorting on basis of name(ascending order) : \n"+list);
       Collections.sort(list,new ComparatorId());
       System.out.println("\nlist after sorting on basis of id(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}]
list after sorting on basis of id(ascending order) :
[Employee{name=brad, id=1}, Employee{name=amy, id=2}, Employee{name=sam, id=4}]
*/

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