I am writing a program that stores an ArrayList of Person objects (input is from a text file).
This is the code for the Person class, which I will create Person objects from:
import java.io.Serializable;
public class Person implements Comparable<Person>, Serializable
{
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
private int age;
public Person(String firstName, String lastName, int age)
{
this.firstName = firstName;
this.lastName = lastName.toUpperCase();
this.age = age;
}
public int getAge()
{
return age;
}
public String getName()
{
return firstName;
}
/**
* @return a String of the details of a person in the format:
* Name: <firstName> <lastName> Age: <age>
*/
public String toString()
{
return
"Name: " + firstName + "" + lastName + "\t\t" + "Age: " + age;
}
/**
* Compare the age of the current instance of Person to another age of the specified Person
* @return negative number this < p
* @return 0 if this == p
* @return positive number if this > p
*/
public int compareTo(Person p) {
return ((Integer)this.getAge()).compareTo(p.getAge());
}
And I created a Comparable interface:
public interface Comparable<T> {
public int compareTo(T o);
}
And here is the code for the class called Collection which will create an ArrayList to store Person objects, I ommitted parts of the code that were not relevant as it is long:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.Iterator;
public class Collection
{
private ArrayList<Person> people;
public Collection()
{
people = new ArrayList<Person>();
}
public void readFromFile(String filename)
{
// code that will get input to assign values to fields to a Person
Person newPerson = new Person(firstNameToken, lastNameToken, ageToken);
}
/**
* Prints the details of each person held in the people ArrayList
*/
public void printDetails()
{
Iterator<Person> it = people.iterator();
while(it.hasNext())
{
Person p = it.next();
System.out.println(p.toString());
}
}
public static void main(String [] args) throws FileNotFoundException
{
Collection c = new Collection();
// check
//for(Person person : c.people)
//{
// System.out.println(person);
//}
Collections.sort(c.people);
}
}
However I get this error, the sort does not work:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem: Bound mismatch: The generic method sort(List) of type Collections is not applicable for the arguments (ArrayList). The inferred type Person is not a valid substitute for the bounded parameter >
Does anyone know why? I am looking furiously around on google for solutions, I can't see what I am missing. I've implemented comparable..