Integer.compare()
method or
a similar method from the Long
, Short
, Byte
, Double
or Float
classes,
instead of more verbose or less efficient constructs.
If x
and y
are boxed integers, then x.compareTo(y)
is suggested,
if they are primitives Integer.compare(x, y)
is suggested.
Example:
public int compare(int x, int y) {
return x > y ? 1 : x < y ? -1 : 0;
}
After the quick-fix is applied:
public int compare(int x, int y) {
return Integer.compare(x, y);
}
Note that Double.compare
and Float.compare
slightly change the code semantics. In particular,
they make -0.0
and 0.0
distinguishable (Double.compare(-0.0, 0.0)
yields -1).
Also, they consistently process NaN
value. In most of the cases, this semantics change actually improves the
code. Use the checkbox to disable this inspection for floating point numbers if semantics change is unacceptable
in your case.
New in 2017.2