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Does TreeSet allows only comparable objects - class cast exception

 
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Hi

i would like to add Comparator objects to TreeSet, while doing ClassCastException throwing. Could you please help on this.

My question is when I implement my custom class with comparable every this goes fine. But what is the way to add Comparator objects to Treeset?








Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: com.exceptions.Person cannot be cast to java.lang.Comparable
 
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Look at the JavaDocs for TreeSet. There's a constructor that takes a Comparator.
 
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I presume you have read the documentation for TreeSet; you must either pass an object implementing Comparable<T> or you must pass a Comparator<T> as a separate argument (I think to the constructor).

No, that is not the right way to use a Comparator. Create it in a different class, as an anonymous class, or as a λ. You might do well to change your class to implement the Comparable<T> interface, which is probably the easiest solution at present.
Why is your class called person if it has a salary field and an id field? Surely you have written an Employee class there?
 
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BTW, it makes no sense for Person to implement Comparator<Person>. Comparators should be separate entities because they are like a third party arbiter, taking two Person objects and evaluating how they compare to each other. It may make sense in the real world that every Person could potentially serve in that capacity (that's why we have judges and juries, after all) but in an object-oriented programming context, it doesn't. That's just going to be confusing. Look for examples of how to write a Comparator
 
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kiran nyala wrote:. . . com.exceptions.Person cannot be cast to java.lang.Comparable

Don't use that package name, unless you own the www.exceptions.com website. More details in the Java™ Tutorials.
 
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Thanks for all your response.

I did with TreeSet constructor with comparator. thank you
 
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