net.sf.fikin.pojostate.state
Class StateSorter

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.fikin.pojostate.state.StateSorter

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.util.Comparator

public class StateSorter
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.util.Comparator

Implements sorting algorithms for Property objects

It supports sorting based on name, description and value. It supports ascending or descending ordering. created on Mar 6, 2007

Since:

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Author:

fiykov

Field Summary

protected int	leadField leading State field
protected int	order field's order

Constructor Summary

StateSorter(int leadField, int order)
Initialize the comparator with given leading field and order

Method Summary

int	compare(java.lang.Object arg0, java.lang.Object arg1) actual comparator logic based on what this object has been initialized with If leading field is getValue() and in case of getting DecorationException upon executing it, it will perform comparison based on getName() ASC.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Comparator

equals

Field Detail

leadField

protected int leadField

leading State field

order

protected int order

field's order

Constructor Detail

StateSorter

public StateSorter(int leadField,
                   int order)

Initialize the comparator with given leading field and order

Parameters:

leadField - is the leading property

order - is ascending or descending

Method Detail

compare

public int compare(java.lang.Object arg0,
                   java.lang.Object arg1)

actual comparator logic based on what this object has been initialized with

If leading field is getValue() and in case of getting DecorationException upon executing it, it will perform comparison based on getName() ASC.

If leading field is getValue() or getDescription() and comparison finds them equal, it is returned the result of getName() with appropriate ordering. This is pretty much as an acting second field for ordering.

Specified by:

compare in interface java.util.Comparator

Parameters:

arg0 -

arg1 -

Returns:

1, -1 or 0