Sorting by property in Java 8 stream

Question

Oh, those tricky Java 8 streams with lambdas. They are very powerful, yet the intricacies take a bit to wrap one\'s header around it all.

Let\'s say I have a U

Answer 1

What you want is Comparator#comparing:

userMap.values().stream()
    .sorted(Comparator.comparing(User::getName, UserNameComparator.INSTANCE))
    .collect(Collectors.toList());

For the second part of your question, you would just use

Comparator.comparing(
    u->u.getProfile().getUsername(), 
    UserNameComparator.INSTANCE
)