James Lorenzen's Blog: Groovy Sort List

James Lorenzen's Blog: Groovy Sort List

It's real easy to sort a list of numbers

assert [1,2,3,4] == [3,4,2,1].sort()

Or even strings

assert ['Chad','James','Travis'] == ['James','Travis','Chad'].sort()

But this was my example

class Person {
String id
String name
}

def list = [new Person(id: '1', name: 'James'),new Person(id: '2', name: 'Travis'), new Person(id: '3', name: 'Chad')]

list.sort() returns James, Travis, Chad

The solution is ridiculously simple (not that I thought the previous sort would work; I have to be realistic; groovy can't do everything for me).

list.sort{it.name} will produce an order of Chad, James, Travis.