Arraylist<method> swap two items

[anestistsoukalis]

Hey there ! Here is my question:
I am facing with an easy problem i think. I am creating 4 objects. Then i make an ArrayList in which i am storing the 4 objects. The excercise is to delete the objects that are the same(equals) and then sort them by smaller to bigger . Comparison is being made by it's objects price.

Here is the code:
main:

public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Product  p = new Product(15,"test",3.45);
        Product  p2 = new Product(15,"test",3.45);
        Product  p3 = new Product(4716,"koukouroukou",1.25);
        Product  p4 = new Product(6002,"bananofatsoula",0.60);

        ProductDatabase productDatabase = new ProductDatabase();

        productDatabase.addProduct(p);
        productDatabase.addProduct(p2);
        productDatabase.addProduct(p3);
        productDatabase.addProduct(p4);

        productDatabase.printDatabase();



        System.out.println("\n\n");
        System.out.println("After deleting Equals:\n");
        productDatabase.deleteEquals();
        productDatabase.printDatabase();


        System.out.println("\n\n");
        productDatabase.sortDatabase();

        productDatabase.printDatabase();

    }


}

Product:

public class Product {

    private int code;
    private String name;
    private double price;

    public Product(int code, String name, double price){
        this.code = code;
        this.name = name;
        this.price = price;
    }

    public int getCode() {
        return code;
    }

    public void setCode(int code) {
        this.code = code;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public double getPrice() {
        return price;
    }

    public void setPrice(double price) {
        this.price = price;
    }

    public String toString(){
        return code+" , description: "+name+", price: "+price;
    }

    public int hashCode(){
        return 31 * code + name.hashCode();
    }

    public boolean equals(Object o){
        Product other = (Product)o;


        return (this == other);
    }

}

ProductDatabase:

import java.util.ArrayList;


import java.util.Collections;

public class ProductDatabase {

    private ArrayList<Product> productDatabase;

    public ProductDatabase(){
        this.productDatabase = new ArrayList<Product>();
    }

    public void addProduct(Product p){
        if(!this.productDatabase.contains(p)){
            this.productDatabase.add(p);
        }
    }

    public void printDatabase(){
        for(Product product : this.productDatabase){
            System.out.println(product);
        }
    }

    public void deleteEquals(){
        for(int i=0;i<productDatabase.size()-1;i++){

        if(productDatabase.get(i).equals(productDatabase.get(i++)))
            productDatabase.remove(i);
        }
    }

    //Ταξινόμηση της Λίστας κατά αύξουσα τιμή!
    public void sortDatabase(){
        for(int j=0;j<productDatabase.size()-1;j++){
        for(int i =0;i<productDatabase.size()-j-1;i++){
        if(compareTo(i)){
            Collections.swap(productDatabase,i,i++ );  //Με την Χρήση της Collections βιβλιοθήκης κάνω SWAP! Πρέπει να βάλω την βιβλιοθήκη όμως!

        }


        }
        }
    }

    public boolean compareTo(int index){

        if(productDatabase.get(index).getPrice() > productDatabase.get(index++).getPrice()){
            return true;
        }
        else
            return false;



    }

}

Thanks in advance guys!

[JamesCherrill]

49: return (this == other);
tests for them being exactly the same object. I guess you want to return true of they are different objects that happen to have all the same values? You can override equals(...) - that's how classes like String work.
But you can't mix equals and compareTo in such a way that they are inconsistent, so you need to move your comapresTo method into a new Comparator

[anestistsoukalis]

Try to run my code please. The problem is not in equals method i think. It is in the sorting method where i cannot swap the elements of arraylist.

[JamesCherrill]

Where to start (apart from the broken equals method)...
Line 38: Your compareTo method ignores the standard definiiton of compareTo from Comparable (compares the current object to another object)
Line 39: i++ corrupts your loop counter value
Line 39: i and i++ both have the same value when you use them. The ++ is executed after taking the value, ie (i == i++) is always true.
Line 50: ditto