I know this is a very sloppy quicksort, but it is the one I am required to use.
My question is how to change the type of the y
array to type E
on line x[k+i]=(E) (y[k])
. The way I'm currently doing does not cast object as type E
. The quicksort works fine (at least before the recursion), it's just the casting at this point.
public class quicksort {
static <E extends Comparable<E>> E[] quickSort(E[] x, int i, int j) {
int pivot = 0;
Object[] y = new Object[j - i + 1];
for (int k = 0; k < y.length; k++) y[k] = x[k + i];
int lput = i;
int rput = j;
for (int k = i + 1; k <= j; k++) {
if (x[k].compareTo(x[pivot]) < 0) {
y[(lput++) - i] = x[k];
} else {
y[(rput--) - i] = x[k];
}
}
pivot = lput;
y[lput - i] = pivot;
for (int k = 0; k < y.length; k++)
x[k + i] = (E) (y[k]); // this line
quickSort(x, i, pivot - 1);
quickSort(x, pivot + 1, j);
System.out.println("got here");
return x;
}
}
Here is the stack trace. the line refer to is x[k + i] = (E) (y[k])
;
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem:
Type mismatch: cannot convert from Object to E
at quicksort.quickSort(quicksort.java:23)
at ArrayListGui$6.actionPerformed(ArrayListGui.java:158)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)