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POHow can I override compareTo method in a class I wrote to compare Strings stored in the class?
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copied!<p>I wrote a class, MyClass, and each instance has a String "name" field. I want to override the compareTo method so that when called it will compare the two "name" fields of each instance. </p> <p>Here is what I have so far:</p> <pre><code>public class MyClass implements Comparable<MyClass>{ public String name; public int age; public MyClass(String name) { this.name = name; this.age = 0; } public String getName() { return this.name; } @Override public int compareTo(MyClass mc) { return this.name.compareTo(mc.name); } } </code></pre> <p>When I go to add instances of this class into an ordered list container I wrote, they are not added in the order I want, which is alphabetically. The ordered list doesn't seem to be the problem, as I tested it by adding Strings which are added in the correct order.</p> <p>Here is the add() method of the ordered list:</p> <pre><code>public boolean add(E obj) { Node<E> newNode = new Node(obj); Node<E> current = head, previous = null; if (current == null) { // EMPTY list head = tail = newNode; currentSize++; modCounter++; return true; } while (current != null && ((Comparable<E>) obj).compareTo(current.data) > 0) { previous = current; current = current.next; } if (previous == null) { // One item in list, inserted node must go in FIRST position newNode.next = current; head = newNode; } else if (current == null) { // Inserted node must go at the END of the list previous.next = newNode; tail = newNode; } else { // Inserted node is somewhere in the MIDDLE of the list newNode.next = current; previous.next = newNode; } currentSize++; modCounter++; return true; } </code></pre>

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