Sort Jtree Node Alphabetically

Question

I have loaded my JTree to view My directory structure as shown in my code and output image. Here, Tree nodes are by default sorted in alphabetical order, but my other requirement is that I want to sort all nodes according to second name of directory name without actually renaming the directory. I have underlined the name on which I need to sort the JTree node. Please suggest me something.

import java.io.File;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTree;
import javax.swing.event.TreeModelListener;
import javax.swing.tree.TreeModel;
import javax.swing.tree.TreePath;

public class FILE_NAME {
public static void main(String[] args) {
       JFrame frame = new JFrame("My Jtree");

       File root = new File("C:/java");
       JTree tree = new JTree(new FileTreeModel(root));
       frame.setSize(300, 300);
       frame.setVisible(true);
       frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
       frame.add(tree);
       frame.setVisible(true);            
      }
    }

class FileTreeModel implements TreeModel {

protected File root;

public FileTreeModel(File root) {
    this.root = root;
}

@Override
public Object getRoot() {
    return root;
}

@Override
public boolean isLeaf(Object node) {
    return ((File) node).isFile();
}

@Override
public int getChildCount(Object parent) {
    String[] children = ((File) parent).list();
    if (children == null) {
        return 0;
    }
    return children.length;
}

@Override
public Object getChild(Object parent, int index) {
    String[] children = ((File) parent).list();
    if ((children == null) || (index == children.length)) {
        return null;
    }
    return new File((File) parent, children[index]);
}

@Override
public int getIndexOfChild(Object parent, Object child) {
    String[] children = ((File) parent).list();
    String childname = ((File) child).getName();
    if (children == null) {
        return -1;
    }
    for (int i = 0; i == children.length; i++) {
        if (childname.equals(children[i])) {
            return i;
        }
    }
    return -1;
}

@Override
public void valueForPathChanged(TreePath path, Object newvalue) {
}

@Override
public void addTreeModelListener(TreeModelListener l) {
}

@Override
public void removeTreeModelListener(TreeModelListener l) {
}
}

OUTPUT

Answer 1

you can use Arrays.sort() method that uses Comparator, and write your own comparator which compares entries by your own rules, like that:

String[] children = ((File) parent).list();
Arrays.sort(children, new Comparator<String>() {
    @Override
    public int compare(String o1, String o2) {
        // do your comparison
    }
});

In the model methods it will be overload, so you may consider to save directory listing in some model private field and check if directory was not changed in model methods invocation (comparing File.lastModified() will help). If it was - save new listing.