Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

Sort family

Don't worry, we won't have to implement our own sort algorithm. This is not CS 101.

Having the list of people from the preceding find() example, we would like to sort them by age:

val people = listOf(Person("Jane", "Doe", 19),        Person("John", "Doe", 24),        Person("John", "Smith", 23))

It is easily achieved with sortedBy():

println(people.sortedBy { it.age })

The preceding code prints the following output:

[Person(firstName=Jane, lastName=Doe, age=19), Person(firstName=John, lastName=Smith, age=23), Person(firstName=John, lastName=Doe, age=24)]

There's also sortedByDescending(), which will reverse the order of the results:

println(people.sortedByDescending { it.lastName })

The preceding code prints the following output:

[Person(firstName=John, ...