I am working on a project for school and things are going well until i tried to perform a merge sort on my ArrayList.
It will run but then it errors out. The first error of many is Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError.
I have looked over the code and cant find out why the error is occurring.
It does give me a location ( line 74:first_half = mergeSort(first_half); ) but i don't see the issue.
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
// URL url = new
// URL("https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/Classes/15F/cis212/assignments/phonebook.txt");
FileReader fileReader = new FileReader("TestSort.txt");
BufferedReader bufferReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
String entry = bufferReader.readLine();
// Scanner s = new Scanner(url.openStream());
// int count = 0;
while (entry != null) {
// String person = s.nextLine();
String phoneNum = entry.substring(0, 7);
String name = entry.substring(9);
PhonebookEntry newentry = new PhonebookEntry(name, phoneNum);
phoneBook.add(newentry);
entry = bufferReader.readLine();
}
// ********************Selection
// Sort*************************************
ArrayList<PhonebookEntry> sortList = new ArrayList<PhonebookEntry>(phoneBook);
for (int min = 0; min < sortList.size(); min++) {
for (int i = min; i < sortList.size(); i++) {
int res = sortList.get(min).getName().compareTo(sortList.get(i).getName());
if (res > 0) {
PhonebookEntry temp = sortList.get(i);
sortList.set(i, sortList.get(min));
sortList.set(min, temp);
}
}
}
for (PhonebookEntry sortentry : sortList) {
System.out.println(sortentry);
}
System.out.println(mergeSort(mergeSortList));
}
// *****************************merge sort******************************************
static int mergecounter = 0;
static ArrayList<PhonebookEntry> mergeSortList = new ArrayList<PhonebookEntry>(appMain.phoneBook);
public static ArrayList<PhonebookEntry> mergeSort(ArrayList<PhonebookEntry> mergeSortLists) {
if (mergeSortLists.size() == 1) {
return mergeSortLists;
}
int firstHalf = mergeSortLists.size() % 2 == 0 ? mergeSortLists.size() / 2 : mergeSortLists.size() / 2 + 1;
ArrayList<PhonebookEntry> first_half = new ArrayList<PhonebookEntry>(mergeSortLists.subList(0, firstHalf));
ArrayList<PhonebookEntry> mergeSortHalf2 = new ArrayList<PhonebookEntry>(
mergeSortLists.subList(first_half.size(), mergeSortLists.size()));
System.out.println(++mergecounter);
first_half = mergeSort(first_half);
mergeSortHalf2 = mergeSort(mergeSortHalf2);
return merge(first_half, mergeSortHalf2);
}
public static ArrayList<PhonebookEntry> merge(ArrayList<PhonebookEntry> first_half,
ArrayList<PhonebookEntry> mergeSortHalf2) {
ArrayList<PhonebookEntry> returnMerge = new ArrayList<PhonebookEntry>();
while (first_half.size() > 0 && mergeSortHalf2.size() > 0) {
if (first_half.get(0).getName().compareTo(mergeSortHalf2.get(0).getName()) > 0) {
returnMerge.add(mergeSortHalf2.get(0));
mergeSortHalf2.remove(0);
}
else {
returnMerge.add(first_half.get(0));
first_half.remove(first_half.get(0));
}
}
while (first_half.size() > 0) {
returnMerge.add(first_half.get(0));
first_half.remove(first_half.get(0));
}
while (mergeSortHalf2.size() > 0) {
returnMerge.add(mergeSortHalf2.get(0));
mergeSortHalf2.remove(mergeSortHalf2.get(0));
}
return returnMerge;
}
}
