What is Range.getMinimum() in Java?

Overview

getMinimum() is an instance method of the Range class that is used to get the minimum value in the range.

How to import Range

We can find the definition of Range in the Apache Commons Lang package, which we can add to the Maven project by adding the following dependency to the pom.xml file:

<dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
            <version>3.12.0</version>
</dependency>

For other versions of the commons-lang package, refer to the Maven Repository.

We can import the Range class as follows:

import org.apache.commons.lang3.Range;

Syntax

public T getMinimum()

Parameters

This method has no parameters.

Return value

The getMinimum() method returns the minimum value in the range.

Code

import org.apache.commons.lang3.Range;
public class Main{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int fromValue = 100;
        int toValue = 200;
        Range<Integer> range = Range.between(fromValue, toValue);
        System.out.printf("Range object - %s\n", range);
        System.out.println("Minimum value - " + range.getMinimum());
    }
}

Explanation

  • In line 3, we define the Main class.
  • In line 5, we define the main method.
  • In line 6, we define the minimum/fromValue of the range.
  • In line 7, we define the maximum/toValue of the range.
  • In line 8, we use the between method to get the Range object.
  • In line 9, we print the Range object.
  • In line 10, we use the getMinimum() method to get the minimum value of the range.

Output

The output of the code will be as follows:

Range object - [100..200]
Minimum value - 100

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