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Custom Predicate

  



package com.googelcode.jpractices;

import java.io.Serializable;

import org.apache.commons.collections.Predicate;

/**
 * Copyright 2009 @ jPractices v 1.0
 * @SVN URL : http://jpractices.googlecode.com
 * @author Ganesh Gowtham
 * @Homepage : http://ganesh.gowtham.googlepages.com
 * @description This Predicate is responsible in selecting the salary greater than iValue
 */

public class SalaryHighPredicate implements Predicate, Serializable {

  /** Serial version UID */
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 5633766978029907089L;

  /** The value to compare to */
  private final int iValue;

  public SalaryHighPredicate(int salary) {
    super();
    iValue = salary;
  }

  /**
   * returns true when the salary is >= iValue
   */
  public boolean evaluate(Object object) {
    if (object instanceof Integer) {
      //System.err.println("oops");
      int value = Integer.parseInt(object.toString());
      return iValue <= value ? true : false;

    } else {
      // worst case wont happend :-)
      System.err.println("pls check whether passed attribute type");
      return false;
    }
  }

}
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package com.googelcode.jpractices;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanPredicate;
import org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils;

import com.googelcode.jpractices.common.Person;


/**
 * Copyright 2009 @ jPractices v 1.0
 * @SVN URL : http://jpractices.googlecode.com
 * @author Ganesh Gowtham
 * @Homepage : http://ganesh.gowtham.googlepages.com
 * @Description : Writing the own predicate to filter the person objects whose salary is
 *         greater than 26000
 */
public class CustomPredicateExample {
  List<Person> personList = new ArrayList<Person>();

  /**
   * Basic method which creates the list of person object's
   */
  void setUpData() {
    personList.add(new Person("ganesh", "gowtham", 25000));
    personList.add(new Person("britney", "spears", 45000));
    personList.add(new Person("ganesh", "tom", 35000));
    personList.add(new Person("sunny", "dummy", 45000));
  }

  void filterCollection(int salary)
  {
    SalaryHighPredicate nameEqlPredicate = new SalaryHighPredicate(salary);
    BeanPredicate beanPredicate = new BeanPredicate("salary", nameEqlPredicate);
    Collection<Person> filteredCollection = CollectionUtils
          .select(personList, beanPredicate);
    System.out.println("Shows the person object whose salary is >= 26,000 ");
    for (Person person : filteredCollection) {
      System.out.println(person);
    }
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {

    CustomPredicateExample example = new CustomPredicateExample();
    example.setUpData();
    example.filterCollection(26000);
  }
}
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package com.googelcode.jpractices.common;

import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.ToStringBuilder;

/**
 * Copyright 2009 @ jPractices v 1.0
 * @SVN URL : http://jpractices.googlecode.com
 * @author Ganesh Gowtham
 * @Homepage : http://ganesh.gowtham.googlepages.com
 */

public class Person {
  private String firstName;

  private String lastName;

  private int salary;

  public Person(String firstName, String lastName, int salary) {
    super();
    this.firstName = firstName;
    this.lastName = lastName;
    this.salary = salary;
  }

  public String getFirstName() {
    return firstName;
  }

  public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
    this.firstName = firstName;
  }

  public String getLastName() {
    return lastName;
  }

  public void setLastName(String lastName) {
    this.lastName = lastName;
  }

  public int getSalary() {
    return salary;
  }

  public void setSalary(int salary) {
    this.salary = salary;
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString(this);
  }
}



   
    
  








predicate_example1.zip( 811 k)

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