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Scala - Custom ordering
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case class Employee(id: Int, firstName: String, lastName: String) | |
object Employee { | |
// Note that because `Ordering[A]` is not contravariant, the declaration | |
// must be type-parametrized in the event that you want the implicit | |
// ordering to apply to subclasses of `Employee`. | |
implicit def orderingByName[A <: Employee]: Ordering[A] = | |
Ordering.by(e => (e.lastName, e.firstName)) | |
val orderingById: Ordering[Employee] = Ordering.by(e => e.id) | |
} |
Pending review:
final class CompositeOrdering[T](val ord1: Ordering[T], val ord2: Ordering[T]) extends Ordering[T] {
def compare(x: T, y: T) = {
val comp = ord1.compare(x, y)
if (comp != 0) comp else ord2.compare(x, y)
}
}
object CompositeOrdering {
def apply[T](orderings: Ordering[T] *) = orderings reduceLeft (_ orElse _)
}
trait OrderingOps {
implicit class OrderingOps[T](ord: Ordering[T]) extends AnyVal {
def orElse(ord2: Ordering[T]) = new CompositeOrdering[T](ord, ord2)
}
}
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19345030/easy-idiomatic-way-to-define-ordering-for-a-simple-case-class
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14695833/scala-idiom-for-ordering-by-multiple-criteria
http://reactive.xploregroup.be/blog/8/Sorting-on-multiple-fields-and-Tuples