make the class implement Comparable interface, produce a compareTo method that accepts an object as a parameter.

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Not sure how to go about this X(

com/example/BlogPost.java

package com.example;

import java.util.Date;

public class BlogPost {
  private String mAuthor;
  private String mTitle;
  private String mBody;
  private String mCategory;
  private Date mCreationDate;

  public BlogPost(String author, String title, String body, String category, Date creationDate) {
    mAuthor = author;
    mTitle = title;
    mBody = body;
    mCategory = category;
    mCreationDate = creationDate;
  }

  public String[] getWords() {
    return mBody.split("\\s+");
  }

  public String getAuthor() {
    return mAuthor;
  }

  public String getTitle() {
    return mTitle;
  }

  public String getBody() {
    return mBody;
  }

  public String getCategory() {
    return mCategory;
  }

  public Date getCreationDate() {
    return mCreationDate;
  }

  @Override
  public int compareTo(Object obj) {
    return 1;
  }
}

Answer 1 · 2018-07-09T23:24:14Z

July 9, 2018 11:24pm

To implement an interface in java, like the Comparable interface . . . add this to your object

public class BlogPost implements Comparable {

Note: implementing interfaces requires you to override the interfaces methods.

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make the class implement Comparable interface, produce a compareTo method that accepts an object as a parameter.

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