'Iterate the values from the List and get oldest, newest dates
I am working on spring application. I am having a LinkedHashMap<Integer, List<MyDTO>>
object, in the value of the map (i.e,List<MyDTO>
) I have the property myDate
which is holding the date. I want to iterate LinkedHashMap<Integer, List<MyDTO>>
and get the oldest and latest date from List<MyDTO>
myDate property.
LinkedHashMap<Integer, List<MyDTO>> myResults = myService.getResultData(myDTO);
for (Map.Entry results : myResults.entrySet()) {
List<MyDTO> myDTOList = (List<MyDTO>) results.getValue();
//some business logic to process the list object, myDate property is in this myDTOList from which i need to get the oldest anad latest date.
}
Above is the sample code, i tried to iterate the Map(myResults) and took the value of the map object which is List<MyDTO>
. Any suggestions of how to get the oldest and newest date from the dates stored in myDate property in List object(myDTOList)?? ,
Solution 1:[1]
Here is a simple java code to get the oldest and newest dates. There are many other ways to achieve this.
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.List;
public class CompareDates {
public static void main(String[] args){
List<Date> dates = new ArrayList<Date>();
Date date1 = new GregorianCalendar(2014, Calendar.FEBRUARY, 11).getTime();
Date date2 = new GregorianCalendar(2015, Calendar.MARCH, 2).getTime();
Date date3 = new GregorianCalendar(2016, Calendar.JANUARY, 4).getTime();
Date date4 = new GregorianCalendar(2017, Calendar.MARCH, 17).getTime();
Date date5 = new GregorianCalendar(2017, Calendar.FEBRUARY, 12).getTime();
Date date6 = new GregorianCalendar(2017, Calendar.JULY, 14).getTime();
dates.add(date1);
dates.add(date2);
dates.add(date3);
dates.add(date4);
dates.add(date5);
dates.add(date6);
Date minDate = dates.get(0);
Date maxDate = dates.get(0);
for(int i=1; i < dates.size(); i++){
if(dates.get(i).before(minDate)){
minDate = dates.get(i);
}
if(dates.get(i).after(maxDate)){
maxDate = dates.get(i);
}
}
System.out.println("Min date is ---"+minDate);
System.out.println("Max date is ---"+maxDate);
}
}
In your code, you can use before and after of Date API to perform the comparison in similar way.
LinkedHashMap<Integer, List<MyDTO>> myResults = myService.getResultData(myDTO);
for (Map.Entry results : myResults.entrySet()) {
List<MyDTO> myDTOList = (List<MyDTO>) results.getValue();
Date minDate, maxDate;
for(int i=0; i < myDTOList.size(); i++){
if(i == 0){
minDate = myDTOList.get(0).getMyDate();
maxDate = myDTOList.get(0).getMyDate();
}
if(myDTOList.get(i).before(minDate)){
minDate = dates.get(i);
}
if(myDTOList.get(i).after(maxDate)){
maxDate = dates.get(i);
}
}
System.out.println("Min date is ---"+minDate);
System.out.println("Max date is ---"+maxDate);
}
Solution 2:[2]
just iterate the List<MyDTO>
, and use two variables max
and min
to record the newest date and oldest date, which is easy to achieve, so I think you can write code yourself.
hope i didn's misunderstand you question.
Solution 3:[3]
Maybe to late but I used stream():
public static Optional<Calendar> getLastMonth(@NonNull List<Calendar> monthList){
return monthList.stream().max(Calendar::compareTo);
}
public static Optional<Calendar> getFirstMonth(@NonNull List<Calendar> monthList){
return monthList.stream().min(Calendar::compareTo);
}
Sources
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Solution | Source |
---|---|
Solution 1 | Srikanth A |
Solution 2 | Javdroider |
Solution 3 | Sebi |