com.epicentric.common
Class StringComparator

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.epicentric.common.StringComparator

All Implemented Interfaces:

com.sun.java.util.collections.Comparator

Deprecated. As of 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later.

public class StringComparator

extends Object

implements com.sun.java.util.collections.Comparator

Case-insensitive string comparison utility.

Constructor Summary

StringComparator()
Deprecated.

Method Summary

int	compare(Object a, Object b) Deprecated. As of 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface com.sun.java.util.collections.Comparator

equals

Constructor Detail

StringComparator

public StringComparator()

Deprecated.

Method Detail

compare

public int compare(Object a,
                   Object b)

Deprecated. As of 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later.

Casts two objects as strings and then compares them. If the result of the cast is not a string for both values, a ClassCastException will be thrown. The comparisons are case insensitive. Note that for comparison purposes, null is considered to be greater than any non-null value.

Specified by:

compare in interface com.sun.java.util.collections.Comparator

Parameters:

a - first object in the comparison; may be null

b - second object in the comparison; may be null

Returns:

-1 if a < b or b == null
0 if a == b or both a and b are null
1 if a > b or a == null