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This program demonstrates the use of the Comparable interface
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/*
This program is a part of the companion code for Core Java 8th ed.
(http://horstmann.com/corejava)
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
import java.util.*;
/**
* This program demonstrates the use of the Comparable interface.
* @version 1.30 2004-02-27
* @author Cay Horstmann
*/
public class EmployeeSortTest
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Employee[] staff = new Employee[3];
staff[0] = new Employee("Harry Hacker", 35000);
staff[1] = new Employee("Carl Cracker", 75000);
staff[2] = new Employee("Tony Tester", 38000);
Arrays.sort(staff);
// print out information about all Employee objects
for (Employee e : staff)
System.out.println("name=" + e.getName() + ",salary=" + e.getSalary());
}
}
class Employee implements Comparable<Employee>
{
public Employee(String n, double s)
{
name = n;
salary = s;
}
public String getName()
{
return name;
}
public double getSalary()
{
return salary;
}
public void raiseSalary(double byPercent)
{
double raise = salary * byPercent / 100;
salary += raise;
}
/**
* Compares employees by salary
* @param other another Employee object
* @return a negative value if this employee has a lower salary than
* otherObject, 0 if the salaries are the same, a positive value otherwise
*/
public int compareTo(Employee other)
{
if (salary < other.salary) return -1;
if (salary > other.salary) return 1;
return 0;
}
private String name;
private double salary;
}
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